Runway hits No.1

Lady Gaga and Doechii dropped “Runway” on April 10, 2026, and within hours the song had become the top-selling track on the worldwide iTunes chart in a release window crowded with new music from BTS and Foo Fighters. “Runway” is not a random standalone single. It was made for 20th Century Studios’ “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” and the song first showed up in the film’s trailer before the full track arrived. That movie link explains the song’s whole shape. The title comes from Runway, the fictional fashion magazine in the film series, and the record leans hard into catwalk language, club drums, and a chorus built to sound like a fashion-show chant. The pairing also makes sense on paper. Gaga has spent nearly two decades turning fashion into pop spectacle, while Doechii used the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards to present Gaga with the Innovator Award before joining her on this first official collaboration. Behind the scenes, “Runway” was built by a stacked pop team. Variety reported that Andrew Watt co-produced it with Bruno Mars, Cirkut, and Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, with the same group also involved in the writing. The chart fight around it was unusually tight because the same week also brought BTS’s “Swim,” which had already spent a second week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Global 200 with 106.3 million streams and 114,000 downloads sold worldwide in the prior tracking frame. In other words, Gaga and Doechii were not launching into an empty lane. Foo Fighters were in that same lane too. Forbes reported that “Of All People” opened at No. 1 on the United States iTunes Top Songs chart on April 10, while the same article said Gaga and Doechii’s “Runway” was already inside that top 10. That is why a worldwide iTunes spike still gets attention in 2026 even though streaming is much bigger. iTunes measures people paying for a song outright, so the chart reacts fast to fan mobilization, release-day curiosity, and soundtrack tie-ins in a way slower weekly charts often do not. Apple also gives the song extra storefront real estate once it starts moving. The Apple Music page for “Runway” shows it tied to the iTunes Store and slotted into Apple-curated placement like “Strike a Pose” and “New in Pride,” which is the kind of instant visibility that can turn a one-day sales burst into a longer weekend run. So the story is not just that Gaga and Doechii scored a quick chart win. They turned a movie trailer, a fashion-heavy concept, and a first-time superstar pairing into a release-day sales event strong enough to beat back BTS and Foo Fighters on one of pop’s fastest-moving scoreboards.