Justin Bieber’s “Beauty And A Beat,” featuring Nicki Minaj, is back in the global top 10 in 2026, sitting at No. 10 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for the week of October 24, 2026. The song is a 2012 release from the Stratford, Ontario singer’s album Believe, and Billboard’s listing credits it with a No. 1 peak and 27 weeks on the worldwide ranking.
This is a resurgence, not a new single, and the chart numbers say it plainly: a fourteen-year-old pop record is out-streaming current releases across more than 200 territories outside the United States.
The Beauty And A Beat Chart Numbers in 2026
The Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart ranks songs by streams and sales from over 200 territories, excluding U.S. activity. In the October 24, 2026 listing, “Beauty And A Beat” holds No. 10 under the credit Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj, with the table recording a peak of No. 1 and 27 weeks on the chart. That combination, a former No. 1 still holding a top 10 place half a year into its chart run, marks a full second life rather than a one-week spike.
The run has been building all year. Bieber performed several of his early hits, including “Beauty And A Beat,” at Coachella in 2026, and the performances sent the catalogue surging on streaming platforms. The song had already passed one billion streams on Spotify, and its official video counts more than 1.3 billion views as of June 2026.
A 2012 Record Built by Pop’s Top Team
“Beauty And A Beat” was written by Max Martin, Anton Zaslavski, known as Zedd, Savan Kotecha and Nicki Minaj, and produced by Martin and Zedd. It was released as a single in October 2012 from Believe, Bieber’s third studio album, and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its original run, his third top 10 hit from that album.
I wanted a female rapper and I think that she is the best choice. I felt she just fit on the song perfectly. (Justin Bieber, on working with Nicki Minaj)
Minaj’s verse remains the song’s signature turn, a rapid, playful run that name-checks Bieber himself and lands like a feature event inside a dance-pop record. Fourteen years later it is still the section clips get built around.
The Video That Broke a Vevo Record
The official video arrived on October 12, 2012, with a storyline Bieber wrote himself and co-direction from Bieber and Jon M. Chu. Framed as stolen personal footage, it follows a waterpark party shot at Raging Waters in San Dimas, California, with Minaj rapping beside Bieber in the pool. It drew 10.6 million views in its first 24 hours, breaking the VEVO record held by One Direction at the time, and it has since passed a billion views on its way to the 1.3 billion mark.
The Believe Era Numbers Still Stand
The original run set a high bar for any comeback to clear. “Beauty And A Beat” debuted at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to No. 5, and it went top 10 in countries including Australia, Israel, Lebanon and New Zealand. Its certifications accumulated for a decade after release: 7x Platinum in Australia, 4x Platinum in the United States and Platinum in the United Kingdom among a long list of gold and platinum awards worldwide.
The song also holds a small piece of Believe trivia that helps explain its sound. It is the only track on the album Bieber did not co-write, a pure Max Martin and Zedd construction handed to him at the height of the EDM-pop crossover, with Minaj’s verse supplying the hip hop weight. That outside build is part of why it has aged as a standalone single: it was engineered as a global dance record first, and global dance records travel well in the streaming era, where a Coachella performance and a run of short video clips can return a song to worldwide charts in a matter of weeks.
Why Catalogue Keeps Winning for Bieber
Bieber’s 2026 story has run on two tracks at once: the new era of Swag and its singles, and a catalogue deep enough to chart on its own momentum. “Daisies” passing a billion streams, “Yukon” earning award nominations and now a Believe album cut holding a global top 10 place in the same season shows the depth of the bench. For a Canadian artist whose career started in the YouTube era, the old records are not nostalgia items. On the current Billboard global listing, they are active chart stock, and “Beauty And A Beat” is the clearest proof.
