Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Leads Billboard Global Charts for Second Week
As Taylor Swift’s record-shattering album The Life of a Showgirl rules the U.S.-based Billboard 200 for a second week, the superstar claims eight of the top 10 spots on the Billboard Global 200 chart, as well as four of the top 10 on Billboard Global Excl. U.S. For a second frame, the set’s “The Fate of Ophelia” leads both song lists.
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A week earlier, Swift held nine of the top 10 on both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S.
Elsewhere, JISOO and ZAYN storm Global Excl. U.S. as “Eyes Closed” debuts at No. 10.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
“The Fate of Ophelia” tops the Global 200 with 139.8 million streams (down 36%) and 20,000 sold in the week ending Oct. 16. Notably, it shows an individual sales total for the first time, after no songs were available to purchase à la carte during The Life of a Showgirl’s first week of release; in its second week, “The Fate of Ophelia” was.
Here’s where songs from The Life of a Showgirl rank in the top 10 on the latest Global 200:
- No. 1 this week, “The Fate of Ophelia” (No. 1 last week)
- No. 3, “Opalite” (No. 2)
- No. 4, “Elizabeth Taylor” (No. 3)
- No. 5, “Father Figure” (No. 4)
- No. 7, “Wi$h Li$t” (No. 7)
- No. 8, “The Life of a Showgirl,” feat. Sabrina Carpenter (No. 8)
- No. 9, “Wood” (No. 6)
- No. 10, “Actually Romantic” (No. 10)
The other two songs in the Global 200’s top 10: HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s record-breaking animated movie KPop Demon Hunters (5-2, following 12 weeks at No. 1 beginning in July), and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” (14-6, after 10 weeks at No. 1 starting in May).
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“The Fate of Ophelia” leads Global Excl. U.S. with 91.7 million streams (down 27%) and 9,000 sold beyond the U.S.
Also from The Life of a Showgirl, Swift charts in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10 with “Opalite” (steady at No. 3), “Elizabeth Taylor” (4-5) and “Father Figure” (5-7).
“Golden” holds at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., after 12 weeks at No. 1 since July, and Kenshi Yonexu’s “Iris Out” rebounds 13-4, after reaching No. 2.
New in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, JISOO and ZAYN’s “Eyes Closed” debuts on the chart at No. 10 with 43.9 million streams and 5,000 sold outside the U.S. With the duet, which dropped Oct. 10, JISOO, of BLACKPINK, earns her second solo top 10 on the chart, after “Flower” debuted at its No. 2 best in April 2023. ZAYN, formerly of One Direction, notches his first top 10 since the survey began.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Oct. 25, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Oct. 21. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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