HUNTR/X’s “Golden” shines again atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart — and contributes to history for its parent album, the soundtrack to the smash animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters.
“Golden” rebounds a spot for a second week at No. 1, two weeks after it first led the Hot 100, as KPop Demon Hunters becomes the first soundtrack to generate four simultaneous top 10s over the chart’s 67-year archives. Also from the album, Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” holds at its No. 4 high and their “Soda Pop” surges 10-5 — while HUNTR/X slays with its second top 10, as “How It’s Done” bursts 14-10.
KPop Demon Hunters becomes just the fifth soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all, and the first since Waiting To Exhale spun off a record five in 1995-96.
Upon the original coronation of “Golden,” HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — became the first female group associated with Korean pop to top the Hot 100. The act also became the first all-woman collective of three or more members to reign in 24 years, since Destiny’s Child with “Bootylicious” for two weeks in August 2001.
Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.
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‘Golden’ Streams, Airplay & Sales
“Golden,” on Visva/Republic Records, tallied 33.8 million official streams (up 3% week-over-week), 16.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 39%) and 8,000 sold (up 11%) in the United States Aug. 15-21.
The track scores a fifth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; debuts at No. 42 on Radio Songs; and holds at its No. 2 best on Digital Song Sales.
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Snares Fourth Top 10
Image Credit: Netflix The soundtrack to Netflix’s empowering, action-packed and heartwarming KPop Demon Hunters hauls in a fourth Hot 100 top 10, as HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done,” the act’s second top 10, after “Golden,” bounds 14-10. “How It’s Done” was driven by 17.2 million streams (up 2%) in the tracking week.
HUNTR/X and KPop Demon Hunters adversaries Saja Boys come to a draw, each with two Hot 100 top 10s: the latter’s “Your Idol” keeps at its No. 4 high and “Soda Pop” leaps 10-5. The former boasts a gain of nearly 1% to 20.4 million streams and the latter, a 4% lift to 18.4 million. (“It is annoyingly catchy,” HUNTR/X’s Rumi concedes of “Soda Pop” in the film.)
Despite their on-screen combat, HUNTR/X and Saja Boys — whose music is voiced by Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and samUIL Lee — combine to make KPop Demon Hunters the first soundtrack ever to generate four simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s.
It’s also the first soundtrack with at least four Hot 100 top 10s overall since Waiting To Exhale reeled off a record five in 1995-96. The only other soundtracks with four top 10s each: Saturday Night Fever (in 1977-78), Grease (1978) and Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain (1984-85).
Meanwhile, the last time a soundtrack sent three songs to the Hot 100’s top five simultaneously, as KPop Demon Hunters has now done via “Golden,” “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop”? April 15, 1978, when three Saturday Night Fever songs strutted in the tier: Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” (No. 1) and “Stayin’ Alive” (No. 2) and Yvonne Eliiman’s “If I Can’t Have You” (also written by the trio; No. 5).
“It’s so thrilling that people are hearing the songs in two ways,” KPop Demon Hunters executive music producer Ian Eisendrath recently told Billboard. “Some are loving the film, and the film is making the songs hits … and then some people are just encountering the songs, and the songs are making the film a hit.”
The movie’s profile will be further enhanced thanks to sing-along theater screenings held Aug. 23-24, with any related boost in its songs to be reflected on next week’s Billboard charts, dated Sept. 6 and encompassing streaming, airplay and sales Aug. 22-28.
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Rest of Top 10: ‘Ordinary’ & More
Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June. It claims a 10th week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (73.8 million, essentially no percentage change) and a 13th week atop the Songs of the Summer chart, having led each week since the list made its seasonal return after Memorial Day.
Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after it debuted in May as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. It adds a 14th week at No. 1 on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart.
Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” falls to No. 6 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high.
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which topped the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and wrapped as the year’s No. 1 song, keeps at No. 7 — as it adds a record-extending 105th week on the chart overall and a record-padding, and landmark, 75th week in the top 10.
Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” drops 6-8 and Wallen’s “Just in Case” descends 8-9, both after reaching No. 2.
