{"id":12659,"date":"2025-08-20T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12659\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:57:11","slug":"could-kpop-demon-hunters-have-four-top-10-hits-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12659\/","title":{"rendered":"Could ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Have Four Top 10 Hits Next Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Contenders<\/a> is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100<\/a> dated Aug. 30, we look at the still-rising KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack and how many songs it might chart in the top 10 next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHUNTR\/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & Rei Ami, \u201cGolden\u201d & \u201cHow It\u2019s Done,\u201d Saja Boys: Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo & samUIL Lee, \u201cYour Idol\u201d & Soda Pop\u201d (Visva\/Republic)<\/strong>: Every week, the reach of KPop Demon Hunters expands a little more in the Billboard charts (and just about everywhere else). All but one of its nine Hot 100 entries \u2014 four from fictional girl group heroines HUNTR\/X, two from their demonic cartoon adversaries the Saja Boys, one from characters Runi and Jinu, one from real-life K-pop stars TWICE<\/a> and one from that group\u2019s members JEONGYEON, JIYHO and CHAEYOUNG \u2014 continue to rise on the chart this week (dated Aug. 23). The lone exception is HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden,\u201d which reached No. 1 the previous week, and which this week cedes the throne back to Alex Warren<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOrdinary,\u201d the song it initially deposed. (Still, \u201cGolden\u201d gained in all of the chart\u2019s metrics: streams, radio airplay and sales.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile that song slips to No. 2, it is joined in the top five for the first time by Saja Boys\u2019 \u201cYour Idol,\u201d which leaps from No. 8 to No. 4. And slightly lower on the chart, KPop Demon Hunters welcomes a third soundtrack hit to the top 10: \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d also from Saja Boys, which jumps 14-10 on this week\u2019s listing. Both songs owe most of their still-rising success to steady streaming growth, but are also now bubbling under on the Pop Airplay listing, with early radio support coming from iHeartMedia stations and SiriusXM\u2019s Hits 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, they may soon have even more company joining them in the chart\u2019s top tier. HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cHow It\u2019s Done\u201d has been lingering around the lower stretches of the top 20 the past couple weeks, and this frame it scales\u00a0 19-14, while also picking up airplay from the same early supporters as \u201cPop\u201d and \u201cIdol.\u201d In the next week or two, it could jump into the top 10, giving the soundtrack four such hits in the region \u2014 something no soundtrack has achieved since Waiting to Exhale<\/a> nearly 30 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tExhale also stands as the lone soundtrack with five top 10 hits to its credit \u2014 but if Demon Hunters continues its forward momentum in coming weeks, it\u2019s not inconceivable it could have that record in its sights, as well. While none of the other songs from the soundtrack have yet reached the top 20, three are still moving up in the top 30: HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cWhat It Sounds Like\u201d (25-24) and \u201cTakedown\u201d (29-26), and Rumi (EJAE) & Jinu\u2019s (Andrew Choi) \u201cFree\u201d (27-25).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd before then, \u201cGolden\u201d could very well take back No. 1 as soon as next week. The song continues to rise across the board \u2014 particularly on radio, where the song still has the most ground to gain. It\u2019s starting to do exactly that, up another 27% in airplay audience Aug. 15-18, according to Luminate, and now aiming for a debut on the 50-position Radio Songs<\/a> chart, while also still climbing the Pop Airplay<\/a> top 20. Multiple versions of the song are also still sale-priced to 69 cents in the iTunes Store, which should help it continue to sell well, as it moves from No. 3-2 on Digital Song Sales this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAlex Warren, \u201cOrdinary\u201d (Atlantic)<\/strong>: While \u201cOrdinary\u201d should remain a strong contender for the Hot 100\u2019s top spot for the foreseeable future, it may take a bit of a hit next week. The bump it received last week from Warren\u2019s live duet version of the song with country superstar Luke Combs \u2014 initially performed at Chicago\u2019s Lollapalooza festival in July, then released to DSPs on Aug. 7 \u2014 will inevitably recede some before next week, as \u201cGolden\u201d continues to shine brighter and brighter. But \u201cOrdinary\u201d should still hold atop Radio Songs for a 10th week (despite a narrow decrease in airplay through the first four days of this tracking week), and its own continued discounting on iTunes shows Warren and his team aren\u2019t conceding the fight for next week just yet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[11947,18,117,19,17,337,11948],"class_list":{"0":"post-12659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-family","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-the-contenders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}