Troye Sivan's 'She's the Best' Wins Billboard's Fan Poll With 56 Percent — Beating Cardi B's Release Week

By Previously Staff, Previously

October 13, 2026

Billboard's weekly fan vote put Sivan's fourth album, released October 9, ahead of new music from Cardi B, Slayyyter, Ez Mil with Eminem, Pitbull and Remi Wolf — with Nicole Kidman starring in the title track's video.

Release week is a crowded room, and Troye Sivan just won it — at least with the fans who vote. Billboard's weekly fan poll, which closed Sunday, October 11, gave Sivan's new album She's the Best 56 percent of the vote, according to the poll results carried by Billboard's syndication partners, putting the Australian singer's fourth studio album ahead of new releases from Cardi B, Slayyyter, Ez Mil with Eminem, Pitbull and Remi Wolf in the week's most direct measure of fan enthusiasm.

What the Poll Actually Measures

The mechanics matter, so here they are first. This is a fan-voted poll, not a sales chart: Billboard's weekly survey asks readers to pick their favorite new release of the week, and the result measures mobilization and enthusiasm among participating fans rather than units sold or streams counted. Sivan's 56 percent was not a squeaker — it was an outright majority in a six-way field, which means She's the Best did not merely edge the competition; it outpolled all five rival releases combined-adjacent territory, finishing clear of Cardi B's new music and the rest of a field that mixed pop, rap and dance names.

That distinction — enthusiasm versus consumption — is exactly why fan polls are worth reporting carefully. They do not tell you what the country listened to most. They tell you which fanbase showed up organized, which is its own kind of music-industry data point in an era when opening-week narratives are built as much on community as on radio.

The Album: Kidman, Candor and a Fourth Chapter

She's the Best, released October 9, is Sivan's fourth studio album, and by the accounts carried with the poll results it explores personal relationships, emotional experiences and the influence of women in his life. The title track has drawn its own attention through its music video, which features actress Nicole Kidman — two Australian entertainers from different generations sharing one clip, a casting choice that gave the album a visual identity beyond its own audience before the poll ever opened.

The album continues the direction of Sivan's recent work: upbeat pop production set against more personal, reflective moments. For an artist whose career has moved fluidly between music, screen and fashion, a release-week win measured in fan votes is a fitting metric — his audience has always been a community first and a demographic second, the kind that treats a poll link as a summons.

The Company He Beat

The field Sivan beat is the week's real context. Cardi B brought the biggest commercial name in the poll. Slayyyter represented the internet-native pop underground. Ez Mil arrived with an Eminem feature — usually a headline by itself. Pitbull is a permanent fixture of global pop, and Remi Wolf one of its most distinctive younger voices. Finishing first in that company, with a majority rather than a plurality, says the album's release landed as an event inside Sivan's world, which is precisely the asset mid-career pop artists build albums around now.

Previously has been tracking a chart season full of these fan-driven storylines — from Tinashe's first Top 10 album to the Beatles, Drake and Taylor Swift sharing a Billboard 200 top five for the first time. The through-line is that in 2026, the charts reward catalogs and communities as reliably as they reward new singles, and She's the Best winning its first poll is one more entry in that ledger.

What a Poll Win Can and Can't Prove

What happens next is the part the poll cannot tell us. Fan enthusiasm has to convert — into streams that hold past week one, into chart positions when Billboard's consumption numbers publish, into ticket demand when a tour is announced. Plenty of poll winners have faded by the second Friday; plenty of quiet releases have grown. The honest reading of Monday's result is narrow and real: of all the music released into a crowded October week, Troye Sivan's is the one whose audience cared the loudest, immediately.

For a fourth album from an artist a decade into a career that began online, that is not a consolation prize. It is the business model. She's the Best is out now; the charts will render their slower verdict over the coming weeks, and the Previously music section will be keeping score.

One more detail from the poll report is worth filing away for the weeks ahead: the field itself. Release-week polls are only as meaningful as the competition in them, and this one was not a soft draw — it contained a major-label rap release with an Eminem feature, a new Cardi B entry and two established pop acts with their own organized followings. A 56 percent majority in a weak field would be a footnote. The same number against this field is a signal about where Sivan's audience stands right now: smaller than the biggest pop machines, and considerably more motivated than most of them.