New Music Friday stats
This week’s New Music Friday included big drops — Lady Gaga & Doechii’s "RUNWAY" debuted at No. 32 globally on Spotify with about 2.672 million streams. (x.com) Also, KATSEYE’s "PINKY UP" climbed to a new peak at No. 18 with roughly 3.317 million streams, alongside fresh releases from Foo Fighters, Evanescence and Chris Brown. (x.com) (x.com)
Spotify’s latest global rankings turned this week’s New Music Friday into an early scoreboard, with KATSEYE climbing higher than Lady Gaga and Doechii on first-day momentum. (charts.spotify.com) KATSEYE’s “PINKY UP” reached a new global peak at No. 18 and a United States peak at No. 10 on April 11, one day after the group released the single on April 9 at 12 p.m. Eastern time. (hitsdailydouble.com) (weverse.io) Lady Gaga and Doechii’s “Runway” opened at No. 32 globally with 2,672,529 streams, according to chart figures circulating Saturday, and the track is tied to *The Devil Wears Prada 2*. (atrl.net) (variety.com) Those rankings show how fast streaming charts now react to release timing, fan campaigns and festival exposure, with Spotify updating daily from listening activity across markets. (charts.spotify.com) (hitsdailydouble.com) KATSEYE also arrived at Coachella with fresh attention around the single and with member Manon Bannerman still on hiatus, a lineup change that has shaped coverage of the group’s latest release cycle. (aol.com) (yahoo.com) “Runway,” meanwhile, landed with movie promotion built in: 20th Century Studios used the song in a trailer for *The Devil Wears Prada 2*, giving Gaga and Doechii a film tie-in as the single hit streaming services. (variety.com) (yahoo.com) The same Friday release slate also included rock and rhythm-and-blues veterans pushing new projects. Foo Fighters are rolling toward an April 24 album release with *Your Favorite Toy*, Evanescence released “Who Will You Follow” on April 10, and Chris Brown used Friday to launch “Obvious” and set a May 8 album date for *BROWN*. (sonymusic.ca) (blabbermouth.net) (ratedrnb.com) For now, the clearest read from this week’s numbers is simple: one new single broke into Spotify’s global Top 20, another opened inside the Top 40, and the race for next Friday’s chart update is already underway. (hitsdailydouble.com) (atrl.net)
