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The list is based on real-time streaming data, including increases in plays, saves, shares, and listens per user, aggregated by Spotify to reflect songs gaining popularity fastest during the week.

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Top 10 Trending Songs on Spotify (May 19-25, 2026)

Discover the hottest tracks dominating Spotify's Global Top 50 for the week of May 19-25, 2026. This dynamic list is compiled using real-time chart tracking data from kworb.net and Spotify's official charts. With artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo constantly shifting positions, see which songs captured the most listens this week. Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' has already surpassed 3 billion lifetime streams, and the collaboration 'APT.' by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars has also exceeded 2.5 billion streams, showcasing the immense popularity of these global hits.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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drop dead - Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo dropped dead in late April 2026 and held firm at number 3 on multiple global charts three weeks after its chart-topping debut, logging 20.1 million Spotify streams in the month of May alone. The track is Rodrigo darkest production to date, featuring distorted guitar and industrial percussion that departs sharply from the pop-punk of GUTS. Its visceral breakup narrative and music video featuring Rodrigo destroying luxury items went viral across social platforms, driving an unusually high save-to-stream ratio indicating strong listener intent to return.
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Man I Need - Olivia Dean
British soul singer Olivia Dean continued her 2026 breakthrough with Man I Need charting in the Spotify Global Top 50 for a ninth consecutive week as of May 2026, accumulating over 185 million total streams. Dean Motown-influenced production and voice have made her the most internationally streamed British female artist of 2026 so far, surpassing Dua Lipa in weekly Spotify streams during three weeks in April and May. Her upcoming US arena tour sold out in 38 minutes, reflecting how her streaming popularity has translated into genuine live market demand.
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I Just Might - Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars continues his 2025-2026 commercial resurgence with I Just Might charting in the Spotify Top 50 globally for its 18th consecutive week as of Week 20, 2026. Mars solo career streaming was already revitalized by the APT collaboration with ROSE, and I Just Might arrival as a funkier, more mature solo R&B statement has confirmed his longevity as a streaming artist rather than a legacy act. The song has been used in over 2 million TikTok videos in 2026, an organic virality that has kept weekly stream counts elevated well beyond typical chart cycle patterns.
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Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter
Please Please Please completes a remarkable three-song Carpenter presence in the Week 20 Global Top 50, with 18.1 million 2026 streams adding to its total of over 1.8 billion lifetime plays. The track, accompanied by a music video featuring Carpenter boyfriend Barry Keoghan, captured a rare cultural crossover moment where the acting world and music world fan bases merged. Its emotional directness and retro girl-group production have made it Carpenter most rewound and replayed song among long-term fans, as evidenced by its unusually high repeat-stream ratio on Spotify analytics.
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WILDFLOWER - Billie Eilish
WILDFLOWER from Billie Eilish second album Hit Me Hard and Soft charts in Week 20 Global Top 50 with 13 million May 2026 streams, as the album itself has accumulated 9.5 billion total streams and passed both Sabrina Carpenter Short n Sweet and Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department to claim the number 1 spot among 2024 album releases on Spotify. The album slow-burn streaming strategy, releasing no official singles and relying on album-mode listening, has been studied as a case study in artist-led streaming behavior. WILDFLOWER haunting production and Eilish most vulnerable vocal performance anchor the album second half.
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