Demi Lovato Returns to Dance Charts With New Song ‘Fast’

Billboard’s Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard’s many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more.

This week, on the charts dated Aug. 16, Demi Lovato scores her first dance entry in five years, and David Guetta extends his record for the most No. 1s on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay survey.

Check out the key movers below.

Demi Lovato

Fresh off her surprise appearance with Jonas Brothers at the trio’s show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday (Aug. 10), the star scores her first hit on Billboard’s dance charts in five years with her new single, “Fast.”

Released Aug. 1 via DLG Recordings/Island/Republic, the tune debuts at No. 8 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs with 3.8 million official U.S. streams earned in its first week, according to Luminate. It’s her first career entry on the ranking, which launched in January.

Still, Lovato has been a familiar face on Billboard’s other dance charts. She charted four songs on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, three of which reached the top five: “No Promises” (by Cheat Codes featuring Lovato, No. 2 peak in 2017), “Solo” (Clean Bandit featuring Lovato, No. 4 in 2018) and, most recently, “Ok Not to Be Ok” with Marshmello (No. 2 in 2020). She has also earned 14 songs on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, including four top 10s: “Cool for the Summer” (No. 10; 2015), “No Promises” (No. 2), “Sorry Not Sorry” (No. 5; 2017) and “Ok Not to Be Ok” (No. 9).

David Guetta & Cedric Gervais

David Guetta and Cedric Gervais score another No. 1 single with “A Better World.” The track, released via What a DJ/Warner Records, rises 3-1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay with a 15% increase in plays among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations’ mix show hours.

Guetta achieves his record-extending 19th career No. 1 on the chart, and third this year, following “Forever Young” with Alphaville and Ava Max in January and “Beautiful People” with Sia in May. As for who’s behind Guetta, Calvin Harris has the second-most leaders, 17, followed by Rihanna (12), the Chainsmokers (10) and Ellie Goulding (eight).

Here’s a recap of all 19 of Guetta’s No. 1s on Dance/Mix Show Airplay:

As for Gervais, the French DJ notches his second No. 1 on the chart and first in 12 years. He first led with “Summertime Sadness,” with Lana Del Rey, in 2013. Before “A Better World” debuted in July, he had last appeared on the chart in July 2016 with “With You” featuring Jack Wilby (No. 17 peak).

ILLENIUM & Norma Jean Martine

ILLENIUM and Norma Jean Martine’s new collaboration, “Refuge,” is the top debut on this week’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, opening at No. 11 with 1 million streams in its first week of release.

ILLENIUM collects his 62nd career entry — the sixth-most in the chart’s history, after David Guetta (96), Marshmello (76), Kygo (70), Skrillex (69) and the Chainsmokers (66). It’s the fourth and highest charting entry for Martine.