{"id":23295,"date":"2025-08-26T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23295\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:15:10","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-now-has-four-songs-in-top-10-a-historic-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23295\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Now Has Four Songs in Top 10, a Historic First"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d soundtrack continues to hunt down more slots in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. As of the newly revealed weekly chart, four songs from the album are now in the top 10, simultaneously \u2014 the first time that has happened for any soundtrack album in the history of the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d remains at No. 1 for a second week, after finally having pushed out Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d last week. It is joined again in the top 10 by \u201cYour Idol,\u201d which repeats at No. 4, and \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d which moves up five spots to No. 5. The fresh addition to the top 10 that allowed the soundtrack to make history with four top 10 slots is \u201cHow It\u2019s Done,\u201d which got a four-spot boost to land at No. 10 this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are four previous examples of a soundtrack generating four top 10 songs in the Hot 100, but none of them had all four of those songs landing that high concurrently. The last time any soundtrack had four or more top 10 hits, according to Billboard,<\/a> was three decades ago, when \u201cWaiting to Exhale\u201d had five in 1995-96 \u2026 bot those five tunes were not all in the top 10 concurrently, the way the current hits from \u201cDemon Hunters\u201d are.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard also notes that the last time a soundtrack had three songs in the top 5 at once was when \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d did that in 1978.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost industry observers would say that, by most measures, \u201cGolden\u201d has been the most popular song in the country for more than just two weeks. But it was held back for a while in the No. 2 slot because its success was primarily due to streaming and it was getting very little radio play (a la the \u201cWe Don\u2019t Care About Bruno\u201d phenomenon). But even as streaming continues to see small week-over-week growth, radio is coming on board in a bigger way. This week, airplay for \u201cGolden\u201d was up an impressive 39%, to 16.2 million radio airplay audience impressions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s still a major imbalance between streaming and radio play for \u201cGolden.\u201d Billboard reports that the smash is No. 1 on the streaming songs chart for a fifth straight week, while, even with the 39% radio increase, it\u2019s still only No. 42 on the radio songs chart. But even a modicum of airplay may be enough to keep \u201cGolden\u201d atop the Hot 100, given its streaming indomitability.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn fact, its strength may only increase on next week\u2019s charts, which could reflect additional interest generated by theatrical sing-along screenings of \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d that took the Netflix movie to No. 1 at the box office this past weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\t(Looking at the Spotify charts, there\u2019s certainly no slowdown in sight; the soundtrack currently occupies the top seven slots on the daily U.S. chart.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe No. 2 song continues to be Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary.\u201d That position for the former charttopper was bolstered by the ballad holding steady at radio with 73.8 million audience impressions, more than four times as many as \u201cGolden\u201d picked up for the week. <\/p>\n

\n\tRepeating in the No. 3 spot is Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhat I Want,\u201d featuring Tate McRae. Ravyn Lenae\u2019s \u201cLove Me Not\u201d drops one position to No. 6. Teddy Swims\u2019 perennial \u201cLose Control\u201d holds on again at No. 7. Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cDaisies\u201d and Wallen\u2019s \u201cJust in Case\u201d\u00a0are at Nos. 8-9 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart, Wallen\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m the Problem\u201d is No. 1 for a 12th non-consecutive week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s a blockbuster that even \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d has a problem hunting down, for all of its hit. The soundtrack remains at No. 2, where it has spent five non-consecutive weeks. How close are they? Wallen\u2019s album had 121,000 equivalent album units for the week, while \u201cKPop\u201d had 108,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe highest-debuting album is Conan Gray\u2019s \u201cWishbone\u201d at No. 3, his best achievement on the chart to date. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe other big action on the album chart came from two 2024 albums experiencing big boosts. Billie Eilish\u2019s \u201cHit Me Hard and Soft\u201d reentered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at No. 6 due to a one-year anniversary special vinyl edition hitting the market. Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department\u201d jumped eight spots to No. 10, presumably just on the strength of news about a follow-up album being on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d soundtrack continues to hunt down more slots in the upper reaches of the Billboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[19764,8526,18,117,19,17,4923,11556,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-23295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-200","9":"tag-billboard-hot-100","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","15":"tag-morgan-wallen","16":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","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=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}