Beyonce’s ‘Diva’ Hits New TikTok Billboard Top 50 Peak as Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rule Again
Beyoncé‘s “Diva” nears the No. 1 spot on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, but it’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” that remains atop the Nov. 23-dated tally for a seventh week.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Nov. 11-17. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps” again reigns over Alphaville’s “Forever Young”; the pair of tunes have been Nos. 1 and 2 for six weeks in a row, dating back to the Oct. 19 ranking.
But while the top three had also been static for four straight weeks, with Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” at No. 3 during that span, the top three gets a shake-up in the form of Beyoncé’s “Diva,” which jumps 6-3 in its fourth week on the ranking (“Akon’s Beautiful Day,” meanwhile, drops to No. 8).
TikTok uploads showing off creators’ diva-esque behavior continues to drive the ascension of “Diva,” originally released on Beyoncé’s 2008 album I Am…Sasha Fierce.
In the week ending Nov. 14, “Diva” sported an 11% gain in official U.S. steams to 2.6 million earned, according to Luminate.
Aphex Twin’s “QKThr” rises back to its No. 4 peak (after initially attaining it on the Oct. 26 ranking), while Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” rounds out the top five, leaping 7-5. Carey returns to the top five at virtually the same time as she did last year, as the holiday standard first hit No. 5 on the Nov. 25, 2023, tally, the first holiday season of the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s existence.
Other holiday-related moves include Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (down 13-14) and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (up 22-21).
Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” reaches a new peak within the top 10, rising 8-6 in the song’s third week on the list. Concurrently the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 chart’s greatest gainer in streaming (up 25% to 23.5 million streams, good for No. 1 on the Streaming Songs ranking), “That’s So True” remains driven by lip-synching content and other edits.
And one song hits the top 10 of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the first time: Grace McGuigan’s cover of “Amazing Grace,” which launches 21-10 in its second week. McGuigan’s cover of the religious standard, given a wide release earlier this month, has been used in a variety of ways on TikTok, from post-U.S.-election content to sports teams’ uploads and much more.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Kevin Rutherford
Billboard
