Spotify Top 50 — USA. Today's most-heard songs, individually charged.
Reading for 2026-09-26.
Longing sets the pace of the listening board, with narrators circling exes who left, fixing on faces and bodies, and treating glamour as a way to be seen. Beneath the ache runs a thin current of steadier voices, a lover released with grace and a woman lost to addiction honored in witness, that the pull of fixation keeps near center.
- 1 Choosin' Texas Ella Langley Decent -15
- 2 Nicole Kidman ADÉLA Degraded -37
- 3 Earrings Malcolm Todd Degraded -26
- 4 BbY WOW KAROL G, Judeline, rusowsky Decent -14
- 5 Mr. Brightside The Killers Decent -24
- 6 stupid song Olivia Rodrigo Decent +8
- 7 the cure Olivia Rodrigo Decent +12
- 8 Ain't In LA ADÉLA Elevated +28
- 9 Last Thing You Need (from GTAVI: The Album) Morgan Wallen, Grand Theft Auto VI Degraded -44
- 10 Cinderella (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) Mac Miller, Ty Dolla $ign Corrupted -83
- 11 Be Her Ella Langley Degraded -56
- 12 Loser Tame Impala Decent -6
- 13 oh yeah? Steve Lacy Decent +3
- 14 Broken Window Serenade Whiskey Myers Elevated +30
- 15 Man I Need Olivia Dean Degraded -35
- 16 Janice STFU Drake Degraded -60
- 17 Dreams - 2004 Remaster Fleetwood Mac Elevated +38
- 18 Orbiter Noah Kahan Decent +18
- 19 Iris The Goo Goo Dolls Decent +12
- 20 Babydoll Dominic Fike Degraded -25
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