{"id":139225,"date":"2025-08-12T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139225\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:42:11","slug":"huntr-xs-golden-from-kpop-demon-hunters-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139225\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTR\/X’s ‘Golden’ From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHUNTR\/X<\/a>\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d goes up, up, up a spot for its first week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe aspirational song is from the soundtrack to the smash<\/a> animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters and glows as the first Hot 100 leader for the act, whose music is voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI. The set rules Billboard\u2019s Soundtracks<\/a> chart for a seventh week.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, \u201cGolden\u201d is the ninth song associated with Korean pop to conquer the Hot 100 \u2014 and the first by female lead vocalists. It joins \u201cSeven\u201d by Jung Kook (featuring Latto) and \u201cLike Crazy\u201d by Jimin, both of BTS, in 2023, and BTS\u2019 six No. 1s in 2020-21: \u201cSavage Love (Laxed \u2013 Siren Beat),\u201d with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo; \u201cDynamite\u201d; \u201cLife Goes On\u201d; \u201cButter\u201d; \u201cPermission To Dance\u201d; and \u201cMy Universe,\u201d with Coldplay. (HUNTR\/X singers EJAE and REI AMI were born in Seoul, South Korea; Nuna is from New Jersey.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d is also the first IRL Hot 100 No. 1 by any act with a fictional background since the ensemble No. 1 \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk About Bruno,\u201d which reigned for five weeks<\/a> in February-March 2022. It, too, was released from a hit animated film, Disney\u2019s Encanto, and sung by multiple vocalists as their characters in the movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for all-women collectives of three or more members, HUNTR\/X is the first to top the Hot 100 in 24 years \u2014 since Destiny\u2019s Child dominated with \u201cBootylicious\u201d for two weeks in August 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, Chappell Roan<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Subway\u201d pulls into the Hot 100 at No. 3, marking her highest debut and rank. The song starts as her fourth top 10.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrowse the full rundown of this week\u2019s top 10 below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 16, 2025) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 12. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n