Our aim on a weekly basis is to bring you the latest and most notable on the charts, and to this point, 2026 has laid out a landscape amenable to that goal. However, this week is the first time that the top-level takeaways lead us to spend time on a winner we’ve crowned before. As Bad Bunny emerges as the real force of February, names like Ella Langley and Ice Spice dot further down to keep it a diverse picture.
Indeed, we spent much of last week discussing how Bad Bunny’s doubleheader of the Super Bowl and the Grammys vaulted him to the top of our rankings. We certainly expected the Puerto Rican polymath to stick around in the ether, but he’s even upped the ante on what we already saw. It’s a full sweep from number one to number five for Benito, likely something you saw coming if you read the trades; a resurgent “DtMF” marked his second-ever Billboard #1 after his contributions to Cardi B’s “I Like It,” thus his first such placement entirely of his own accord.
“Tito Me Pregunto,” a chart titan of old in its own right, “BAILE INVoLIDABLE,” “NUEVAYoL,” and “EeO” round out his topmost quintet. It’s here where we’ll note that the traditional tracking numbers catching up are only confirmation of a Bad Bunny reign that started last week, but that also cuts the other way. It’s only in maintaining monstrous streaming and social numbers that he’s been able to capture this across-the-board achievement; we’d bet it’s not the last time he’ll meet a similar mark.
Ella Langley And Ice Spice Add Life To The Bad Bunny Takeover
Ella Langley is a name our readers should be familiar with by now, as “Choosin’ Texas” vaunted from top 5 flirt to earnest top dog in recent weeks. While we’ve seen artists make big splashes with individual singles, obviously, the true test is matching that achievement over and over again. As her Dandelion receives an official release date in April, “Be Her,” the project’s latest single, is an optimistic signal that she’ll be able to accomplish just that. Strong streaming numbers make up for a void on social and traditional, yet at the risk of us sounding like a broken record, her current metrics point toward the latter catching up in due order.
It’s been visible on our end for some time, but in this more visible analysis, it’s finally time to talk Ice Spice. Her PinkPantheress-into-Taylor Swift parlay of 2022 made her a household name, and though the pops have been fewer and farther between since, reports of her demise are overblown. “Big Guy” is perfect proof, a big factor in social tracking since its November release.
Her own fanbase skewing younger, the same being true for social platforms, and the song’s obvious attachment to a PG product has kept it in rotation on that end. That results in a #53 placement for us here, a region where it remained since we “unfroze” our charts toward the top of the year. The “hate it or love it” aspect that’s traced through her previous releases like “Fart” or even back to “Munch” no doubt adds gas to the fire, but it’s evidence that Ice Spice has carved out a lane for consistent conversation in the industry.
As always, catch the music mentioned throughout this piece wherever you stream your music.
