Published by Top10Grid — May 21, 2026
The biggest songs on Spotify Global Top 50 for the week of May 19-25, 2026, based on chart tracking data from kworb.net and Spotify official charts. Sabrina Carpenter leads 2026 Spotify streams with Espresso at 32.6M plays year-to-date, while ROSE and Bruno Mars APT crossed 2 billion lifetime streams this month.
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Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
Espresso leads Sabrina Carpenter 2026 Spotify streaming total at 32.6 million streams year-to-date as of May 2026, holding strong on the Global Top 50 more than a year after its initial release. The track became an enduring streaming phenomenon rather than a typical one-hit cycle, with Carpenter performing it at three separate award shows in 2025-2026 and the song maintaining high daily stream counts across global markets. Its mid-tempo bedroom-pop production and wry lyricism made it the defining breakout hit of the past 18 months.
Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter
Manchild follows Espresso in Carpenter Spotify dominance with 30.8 million streams in 2026 alone, confirming that her album Short n Sweet has legs well beyond its 2024 release window. The track climbs higher each week as playlist algorithmic rotation keeps it in front of new listeners across 85 markets. Critics cite Manchild as the song that cemented Carpenter transition from Disney actress to legitimate pop artist with staying power rather than a novelty moment.
Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish
Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish has surpassed 3.35 billion total Spotify streams, making it the most streamed song since Harry Styles As It Was in 2022 and the most streamed solo female song in Spotify history. The track holds the record as the most streamed song released in 2024 and is the second-most globally streamed song of 2025, continuing to log millions of new plays weekly into May 2026. Eilish performed a stripped acoustic version at the 2026 Grammys that sparked a new streaming cycle and pushed the song back into Global Top 20.
APT. - ROSE and Bruno Mars
The collaboration between ROSE and Bruno Mars crossed 2 billion Spotify streams in May 2026, making it the first song in history to reach 2 billion streams on both Spotify and YouTube in under a year. APT reached a peak of number 2 on the Spotify Global Daily chart with 10.19 million single-day streams, a record for a Korean-language track. The song Korean drinking game concept translated into a universal viral challenge that drove streams from markets where neither artist had significant prior presence, particularly in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Choosin Texas - Ella Langley
Ella Langley had an extraordinary week of May 13-19, 2026 with three simultaneous top-10 entries on Apple Music and Billboard Hot 100, led by Choosin Texas which charted at number 1 that week and carried momentum into Week 20 on Spotify Global. The country-pop crossover track samples a classic 1970s piano riff and pairs it with Langley confessional lyrical style that has drawn comparisons to early Taylor Swift. The song chart climb, from number 67 to number 1 in four weeks, is one of the fastest organic rises on the Hot 100 in 2026.
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