Weekly Top 10 – OCTOBER 11, 2025
- Golden – HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI (Label: Visva/Republic | LW: 1 | Peak: 1 | Weeks: 15)
- Ordinary – Alex Warren (Label: Atlantic | LW: 2 | Peak: 1 | Weeks: 34)
- Tit For Tat – Tate McRae (Label: RCA | LW: – | Peak: 3 | Weeks: 1)
- What I Want – Morgan Wallen Featuring Tate McRae (Label: Mercury/Big Loud/Republic | LW: 4 | Peak: 1 | Weeks: 20)
- Daisies – Justin Bieber (Label: JRC/ILH/Def Jam/Republic | LW: 8 | Peak: 2 | Weeks: 12)
- Lose Control – Teddy Swims (Label: SWIMS Int./Warner | LW: 7 | Peak: 1 | Weeks: 111)
- Soda Pop – Saja Boys: Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo & samUIL Lee (Label: Visva/Republic | LW: 3 | Peak: 3 | Weeks: 14)
- I Got Better – Morgan Wallen (Label: Mercury/Big Loud/Republic | LW: 11 | Peak: 7 | Weeks: 20)
- Love Me Not – Ravyn Lenae (Label: Atlantic | LW: 9 | Peak: 5 | Weeks: 27)
- Your Idol – Saja Boys: Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo & samUIL Lee (Label: Visva/Republic | LW: 5 | Peak: 4 | Weeks: 15)
New This Week – OCTOBER 11, 2025
- 3 — Tit For Tat — Tate McRae
- 55 — Dracula — Tame Impala
- 56 — Gorgeous — Doja Cat
- 69 — Ninja — Young Thug
- 86 — The Fall — Cody Johnson
- 90 — Where Is My Husband! — RAYE
- 97 — Nice To Each Other — Olivia Dean
- 98 — So Easy (To Fall In Love) — Olivia Dean
- 99 — Take Me Thru Dere — Metro Boomin, Quavo, Breskii & YK NIECE
- 100 — What An Awesome God — Phil Wickham
Re-entry This Week – OCTOBER 11, 2025
- 91 — Let Down — Radiohead
- 94 — What Kinda Man — Parker McCollum
- 95 — Gnarly — KATSEYE
- 96 — Voy A Llevarte Pa PR — Bad Bunny
🎤 Weekly Chart Commentary – OCTOBER 11, 2025
1 remains gold. HUNTR/X”Golden,” with EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, marks a second consecutive week at No. 1, topping 15 in all on the chart and eight at No. 1 since August 15. It’s not only clinging—it’s clinging while the entire Top 10 rearranges, and that tells you all you need to know about its durability through all of streaming and radio. Visva/Republic has modestly created a mini-universe around that sound, and you can sense that roll-through elsewhere in the chart as well.
Week’s top story headline, however, is Tate McRae’s “Tit For Tat” debutting at No. 3, the week’s largest debut. McRae and Ryan Tedder continue to lean into giant, bright hooks that act like pop but punch like alt-dance, and it’s paying off. She now has a new smash in the Top 3 while old singles persist in humming along lower down (“Revolving Door” at 45 and “Just Keep Watching” at 65). That depth is important as we move into Q4: it’s the bottleneck between a flash and a campaign.
Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” stays at No. 2 after reaching No. 1 in early summer. Thirty-four weeks in and triple-Platinum, it’s the odd viral-to-radio crossover that didn’t fall apart when the algorithm looked elsewhere. While that was happening, “Daisies” from Justin Bieber leaps 8-5 in the week’s largest airplay gain. The production credits for the song list like a who’s who of contemporary alt-R&B, and you can hear it: the song possesses the gentle edges programmers adore but still loses none of the slightly left-of-center tones that make it stuck on stream.
Country is inescapable. Morgan Wallen is everywhere: “What I Want” with Tate McRae is steady at No. 4; “I Got Better” jumps 11-8; “Just In Case” is reliable at 19; “I’m The Problem” still lingered at 25 after 35 weeks; and catalog single “20 Cigarettes” returns at 84. Across platforms, Wallen’s relentlessness is the narrative—strength on streaming, faithfulness at country radio, and sufficient pop proximity through features (see: McRae) to leave the escape door open. Luke Combs’ “Back In The Saddle” (up 54-38), Riley Green’s “Worst Way” (No. 47), and the Green/Ella Langley duet “Don’t Mind If I Do” rising to No. 68, and the genre’s autumnal rush is in full swing.
Two acts sneak in twin Top 10s: the Saja Boys unit records “Soda Pop” at No. 7 and “Your Idol” at No. 10—both through Visva/Republic. The looks are bubbly, the hooks are catch-all, and the credits are concise, and that tells you these records were constructed to tour. Pay attention to how they flip their priority between the two as the holidays close in.
Mention endurance, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” hits 111 weeks on the Hot 100 and is at No. 6—over two years after it was released. There aren’t many contemporary precedence of a song surviving that long without deluxifying or a new viral buzz. It became a comfort-food song: ubiquitous, yet never uninvited.
R&B and left-of-center pop remain busy with mid-chart victories. Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” maintains inside the Top 10 at No. 9 after reaching No. 5—a long, slow, natural trajectory that looks to be a career-defining one. Kehlani’s “Folded” peaks in a new station at No. 18 with increases all around, and Mariah the Scientist’s “Burning Blue” hangs steady at 34 in week 22, already Platinum. On the songwriters-producer front, fingerprints of DJ Dahi, Ritz Reynolds, Nineteen85 and staff continue all over these edits, and you can taste the sheen.
Olivia Dean is the week’s subtle glow-up. “Man I Need” blasts 25-12 for a new high after the largest stream gain, and she scores two more new entries in the lowers—”Nice To Each Other” at 97 and “So Easy (To Fall In Love)” at 98—along with continued action for “Man I Need” and her previous records. That’s how you create a stateside imprint: one irrefutable mover, two new hooks, and steady playlisting.
Hip-hop’s landscape is scatterplot busy. BigXthaPlug maintains versatility: “All The Way” sits steady at 37 after reaching No. 4, while the Ella Langley collaboration “Hell At Night” stagnates at 48. YoungBoy Never Broke Again pushes to a new peak with “Shot Callin” (84-64).
Young Thug makes an exit with “Ninja” at No. 69—deferential first week that’ll require a visual breakthrough or feature push to ascend. Cardi B overwhelms the region with six titles moving in all directions—“Magnet” (to 60), “Pretty & Petty” (59), “ErrTime” (new high 43), “Safe” with Kehlani (42), in addition to “What’s Goin On” (92) and “Pick It Up” with Selena Gomez (93). It is much oxygen from one source artist; which two the label promotes in week three will determine the fall saga.
Indie and alt take their own shine. Tame Impala’s “Dracula” slips in at No. 55—a late-in-career chart bow that indicates genuine interest outside of the center. Doja Cat retakes with the snappy “Jealous Type” rebounding 57-36 and new “Gorgeous” entering at 56, bestowing air on both rhythmic and pop charts.
The Marías maintains their slow-grind strategy as “Sienna” inches to 78, and Coldplay catalog-proximal “Sparks” (the new live rendition push) resides at 79 twelve weeks in. Ed Sheeran’s “Camera” reBounds to 80 after entering at 58 two frames ago—a testament that even side-A-sounding Sheeran records can gain a second life should radio provide them space.
Latin and international movement is evident in the outside. Bad Bunny’s comeback at 96 of “Voy A Llevarte Pa PR” is an indicative year-end jump as it increases live dates and catalog traction. Fuerza Regida’s “Marlboro Rojo” moves to 70 in week 20, another illustration of regional Mexican maintaining a consistent floor regardless of the absence of pop crossover.
K-pop’s imprint stays significant beyond week-one bulges. TWICE’s “Strategy” stays at 66 with the JEONGYEON, JIHYO & CHAEYOUNG combo’s “Takedown” at 63; KATSEYE’s “Gabriela” stagnates at 50 as aged single “Gnarly” re-entries at 95.
Not one of these sounds like a flash-in-the-pan hit—they’re mingling in the mid-chart sphere, exactly where long-term stateside development occurs Catalog curios and adult-oriented surprises fill out the board. Radiohead’s “Let Down” returns at No. 91, a.Defense of a sync or live performance that can pull a 1997 gem into contemporay feeds.
Phil Wickham enters “What An Awesome God” at No. 100, providing contemporary Christian with new representation as fall tours begin. Scotty McCreery’s camp will love “Bottle Rockets,” reaching a new high at 32 and profiting from the pairing with Hootie & The Blowfish—shrewd cooperation that enhances demo reach without isolating country base listeners. Jordan Davis also peaks with “Bar None” at 41.
If you’re keeping score on label narratives: Visva/Republic is the week’s largest winner. Aside from top of the list of “Golden” on top, the HUNTR/X pipeline engulfs the chart with “How It’s Done” (17), “What It Sounds Like” (27) and “Takedown” (30), as Saja Boys retain two within the Top 10.
Republic’s wider roster is everywhere else as well—from Wallen aggregation to Metro Boomin’s newie “Take Me Thru Dere” (No. 99).
Atlantic responds with depth (Warren at 2 and 74, BigX, Chappell Roan, Cardi’s multisingle effort), and Island/Republic rides the Sabrina Carpenter run even as lead single “Manchild” commences its natural decline (down 6-14) while follow-up singles “Tears” (24) and “When Did You Get Hot?” (35) steady the period.
Big picture: we’re in that fall window of new Q4 bullets and summer holdovers. Debut action is robust (ten new entries, four re-entries), but the most long-lasting songs—“Golden,” “Ordinary,” “Lose Control,” “Pink Pony Club”—still set the tone.
The two weeks following will indicate whether any of the new entries—Tate McRae’s “Tit For Tat,” Doja’s “Gorgeous,” Tame Impala’s “Dracula,” and Young Thug’s “Ninja”—can find their way to long-term life when holiday music comes to claim chart real estate.
Until recently, the board is the property of two poles: precision-crafted pop from the Visva/Republic camp and a busy, sloppy, exciting string of hip-hop singles fighting for ears. In between, country continues to rack up stealth victories week after week.
That equilibrium—three genres reaching their peaks in various manners—is why, for example, the Hot 100 for this week is vivifying.