What a week to be watching the charts. The Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 20, 2026 tells the story of a summer already crackling with heat, history, and the ongoing dominance of a few key names — but with one very big new arrival at the top.
Taylor Swift is back on top
The biggest story this week is the debut. Taylor Swift enters at number one with “I Knew It, I Knew You,” the original song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5. Written from the perspective of Jessie, the franchise’s cowgirl character, the track is a richly instrumented midtempo country-pop ballad featuring banjo, mandolin, harmonica, saxophone, strings and other live instrumentation. It marks Swift’s 15th number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It is also the first song from a Pixar film—and only the third from a Disney animated film—to top the chart.
The debut sends Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” last week’s number one, down to fifth place.
The Ella Langley Show Continues Regardless
Langley currently has no fewer than six songs in the top 100, and four of them sit inside the top 35. “Choosin’ Texas” holds at number two after 34 weeks on the Hot 100, and recently logged a record 28th week atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart—the longest No. 1 run by a solo female artist. Her sophomore album Dandelion is apparently unstoppable. “Be Her,” a neo-traditional country ballad with a retro ‘90s feel, holds at four after a 17-week run. The duet with Morgan Wallen, “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” described as a sultry, Fleetwood Mac-influenced heartbreaker, sits at nine. “Loving Life Again” is at 35, and “Dandelion” itself appears at 59. She is also currently mid-tour, with sold-out dates drawing enormous crowds — and a viral moment involving a German World Cup fan named Freddy who made a detour to an Oklahoma City show has given her yet another social media boost. Langley, at this point, isn’t just a country star. She’s the story of the year in American music.
Drake’s Iceman: Still Everywhere
Drake remains a hulking presence across the chart, with tracks scattered across the top 100. “Janice STFU” holds at three in its fourth week — a track that interpolates “I Follow Rivers” and contains a pointed second verse aimed at Kendrick Lamar, while also taking a shot at Jay-Z. It debuted at number one, making Drake the male solo artist with the most number-one singles in Hot 100 history, surpassing Michael Jackson’s record. This week, though, the Iceman tracks are starting to settle into their natural orbits: “Shabang” slips three places to 11, buoyed by a viral TikTok challenge that even LeBron James has now reposted; “Ran to Atlanta” featuring Future and Molly Santana falls nine to 21; and several deeper cuts — “Plot Twist,” “B’s On The Table,” “Burning Bridges,” “Make Them Pay” — are all dropping sharply after their debut surges. The sheer scale of Drake’s chart presence remains historic, but gravity is doing its work.
Michael Jackson: History From Beyond
One of the chart’s most remarkable subplots right now belongs to Michael Jackson, whose catalogue has surged following the release of the Michael biopic. “Billie Jean” is at number 18 on the Hot 100, having topped the Billboard Global 200 previously. “Chicago,” a posthumous track produced by Timbaland that originally appeared on 2014’s Xscape, sits at 27 — it entered the chart for the first time this cycle after going viral through a Youtube animation called “Birds for Some Reason,” of all things. Jackson’s “Human Nature” is at 37, and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” at 46. Most remarkably, Jackson has now become the first artist in history to chart on the Hot 100 across six different decades, from the 1970s right through to the 2020s.
Olivia Dean’s Remarkable Longevity
Two songs from the English singer-songwriter’s second album The Art of Loving continue to hold in the top 10: “Man I Need” at seven (in its 42nd cumulative week) and “So Easy (To Fall In Love)” at eight (now 37 weeks). The former is a gospel-laced soul-pop track that won Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2025; the latter is a bossa nova jazz-pop delight compared to Diana Ross and The Supremes. Dean is currently on a major live run across Europe, with sold-out shows in Dublin and Milan, and her profile shows no sign of dimming.
Olivia Rodrigo’s New Era
Rodrigo is back with two entries from her third album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Lead single “Drop Dead” holds at 13 (week eight), a synth-pop and chamber pop track that made her the first artist to debut lead singles from three consecutive studio albums at number one. The second single, “The Cure” — a sprawling indie rock epic that Pitchfork awarded a Best New Track designation and Clash called her “crowning achievement” — has slipped six places this week to 17 in only its third week, though that sort of song tends to have long legs. A new album campaign is clearly underway.
The Top Gainers: What’s Rising
The biggest mover of the week is Tems’ “What You Need,” up 27 spots to number 53 after a Colors performance went viral. Kacey Musgraves’ “Mexico Honey” jumps 15 to 68 in just its second week, suggesting the new album Middle of Nowhere is finding an audience. Yung Miami’s “Spend Dat” leaps 13 to 34 — her first solo top 40 hit, a confident luxury rap anthem with a viral dance challenge attached. Jason Aldean’s “Don’t Tell On Me” rises 12 to 51, and Mac Miller and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Cinderella” — a 2018 track that has gone viral on TikTok — jumps 11 to 31, another reminder that the chart is now as much a reflection of the internet’s memory as it is current radio play.
Other Notable Moments
Bruno Mars continues his remarkable comeback year: “I Just Might” is at six (22 weeks) and “Risk It All” climbs to 12, both from his retro-soul album The Romantic. The Tame Impala and JENNIE collaboration “Dracula” holds firm at 10 for its 37th week — a remarkable achievement for a track that began as a deep cut on a psychedelic rock album before a JENNIE remix sparked a TikTok phenomenon. PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson’s “Stateside” continues to climb radio charts while sitting at 15 on the Hot 100. And Malcolm Todd, the TikTok-viral singer-songwriter, now has three entries — “Earrings” at 22, “I Saw Your Face” returning at 92, and “Difficult Love” debuting at 97 — following the release of his new album Do That Again.
This is a chart in the middle of a genuine superstar collision: Swift and Langley trading the summit, Drake’s empire slowly contracting, Rodrigo making her artistic pivot, Dean proving staying power, and Jackson reminding everyone why certain catalogues never really go away.
Tue Jun 23 11:30 UTC 2026 | Alphadec: 2026_M3O9
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