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Fromurbano musictoK-pop, some of the biggest developments in pop music today are taking root outside the United States.

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In response, two new Billboard song charts will now crown global No.

1s one accounting for the entire world and one excluding the United States.

Billboardannouncedthe new charts, called the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl.

U.S., on September 14.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallions WAP opens the Billboard Global 200 at No.

1, while Malumas Hawai is the first Global Excl.

Aside from the scope of the charts, they notably dont account for radio play.

As it turns out, most of those streams were from outside the U.S.

Lets see him accuse these charts of cheating now.

This story has been updated with comment from Billboard parent MRC Entertainment on the new charts.

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