Dominic Fike earns his first Top 10 as Babydoll, his 2018 song revived by TikTok, climbs to No. 10. The news is the 2026 chart climb, announced on October 19, 2026, on the Billboard Hot 100 dated October 24, 2026, not a new release this week.
The song climbed 13 to 10, giving Fike the first Top 10 of his career with a track first released in 2018 on his EP Don’t Forget About Me, Demos. That date honesty matters, because the whole story is the distance between 2018 and 2026. Babydoll took 8 years to reach the Top 10. A song written for a demos EP, heard by a first wave of listeners years ago, has now outcharted every other entry in his Hot 100 history, and it did so long after its original release window had closed.
The Long Road From 2018 To The Top 10
Babydoll was originally released in 2018 on Don’t Forget About Me, Demos, and for most of its life it lived as an early career track that longtime listeners knew well. Its second life started this year. The song entered the Hot 100 in February 2026 after new TikTok traction brought it in front of a fresh audience, and from that entry point it kept building instead of fading after a single viral week. In April it hit the Top 3 on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Global Excl. US charts, and it has stayed in the Top 40 of both charts since. That global run matters. The song was holding high positions on worldwide rankings for months at the same time, which helps explain how a 2018 track arrived at October with enough sustained strength to push into the Top 10. Staying in the Top 40 of both global charts since April points to listeners staying with the song, and that staying power turns a revival into a genuine chart peak.
“I was making an album in upstate New York, and it was just me and, like, five dudes … we were in a cabin in hoodies, drinking coffee,” Dominic Fike on the song’s ascent, from the Billboard Philippines cover story, quoted in Billboard, Oct 19, 2026
That cabin image is a good reminder of where this music started. Babydoll came from a small, informal creative setting, not from a campaign designed to chase a chart peak 8 years later. The contrast between that origin and a Top 10 position in October 2026 is the heart of the story.
The Numbers Behind This Week’s Climb
In the tracking week, Babydoll posted 48.4 million radio reach, up 4 percent, and 5.6 million streams. Those two numbers together explain the final step from No. 13 to No. 10. Streaming reflects the audience that found the song online and kept playing it, the same audience built through TikTok traction and the global chart run. Radio reach shows the song also working through broadcast, reaching listeners who may never have seen the clips that restarted its story. A climb into the Top 10 usually needs both kinds of support at once, and this week Babydoll had them. The 4 percent rise in radio reach is a steady gain rather than a one week jump, which fits the pattern of the whole year for this song. Each stage of the year lasted long enough to support the next one, and the result looks less like an accident and more like the end of a long, measurable build.
Where Babydoll Sits In His Chart History
Before this week, Fike’s Hot 100 history gave no hint of a Top 10 waiting to happen. His 4 previous Hot 100 entries peaked between No. 81 and No. 99 between 2021 and 2025, placing each of them in the lower stretch of the chart. His second Top 40 hit, White Keys, reached No. 32 in April, which already stood as a major step forward this year. Babydoll at No. 10 now sits far above all of that. The gap between a previous range of No. 81 to No. 99 and a Top 10 peak is the clearest way to measure what changed in 2026. He has gone from brief, low chart appearances to a song with global Top 3 peaks, months of Top 40 staying power on worldwide charts and now a Hot 100 Top 10, all in one year. It also sends new listeners back to the 2018 EP with fresh ears. Catalog songs do not get many second chances this big, and fewer still take the chance all the way into the Top 10.
A New Album Arrives Right After The Peak
The timing ahead adds one more layer. His third studio album, How To Quit Smoking, is due on October 30, 2026, just days after the Hot 100 dated October 24, 2026 is announced. That means his first Top 10 arrives in the same window as a new album release, giving new listeners a current project to move to right after discovering Babydoll. None of that changes the central fact of this story, and it is worth repeating plainly. Babydoll is a 2018 song. The news in October 2026 is its chart climb, powered by TikTok discovery in February, global chart strength from April and a tracking week of 48.4 million radio reach and 5.6 million streams. For more chart and festival news on iimiTV, read PARTYNEXTDOOR Headlines Inaugural TouchGrass Festival and Doja Cat Takes Vie Around The World. Eight years after its release, Babydoll is a Top 10 song, and Dominic Fike has the first Top 10 of his career.
