{"id":4683,"date":"2025-09-15T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:59:15","slug":"huntr-xs-golden-leads-hot-100-for-fifth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4683","title":{"rendered":"HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u2018Golden\u2019 Leads Hot 100 for Fifth Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>HUNTR\/X slays the Archies and the Chipmunks (not literally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/saja-boys\/\">Saja Boys<\/a>&nbsp;weren\u2019t the only animated singers in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/huntr-x\/\">HUNTR\/X<\/a>\u2019s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HUNTR\/X, the heroic trio in Netflix\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/kpop-demon-hunters-most-popular-netflix-film\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smash<\/a>&nbsp;film<em>&nbsp;KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, claims a fifth week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;with \u201cGolden\u201d \u2014 which becomes the sole longest-leading hit by an animated act in the chart\u2019s 67-year history. Two previous cartoon tunes each reigned for four weeks: The Archies, with \u201cSugar, Sugar\u201d in 1969, and the Chipmunks with David Seville, with \u201cThe Chipmunk Song\u201d over the 1958 holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/huntrx-golden-kpop-demon-hunters-number-1-hot-100\/\">original<\/a>&nbsp;ascent to No. 1 for \u201cGolden,\u201d HUNTR\/X \u2014 the IRL singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the movie\u2019s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) \u2014 became the first female group associated with Korean pop to crown the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;has also become the first soundtrack to generate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/huntr-x-golden-hot-100-number-one-second-week\/\">four simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s<\/a>&nbsp;over the chart\u2019s archives. The songs place in the bracket for a fourth week, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/saja-boys\/\">Saja Boys<\/a>\u2019 \u201cYour Idol\u201d and \u201cSoda Pop\u201d each up a spot to return to their respective Nos. 4 and 5 bests and HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cHow It\u2019s Done\u201d lifting one place to a new No. 8 high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;charts three songs in the Hot 100\u2019s top five simultaneously for a third week. It surpasses the only other soundtrack that spun off three concurrent top five hits: For two weeks (April 8 and 15, 1978), three&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em>&nbsp;songs were all in the top five: Bee Gees\u2019 \u201cNight Fever\u201d and \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d and Yvonne Eliiman\u2019s Bee Gees-penned \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You\u201d (at Nos. 1, 2 and 5, respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yebNIHKAC4A?si=8SCYLU_Dtvb7kJ8U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously reported, the\u00a0<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack slashes its way to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-number-one-billboard-200-1236066167\/\">first week at No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart. Thanks to the set and \u201cGolden,\u201d a soundtrack and one of its songs lead the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, respectively, for the first time since the charts dated March 5, 2022, when\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0and its ensemble anthem \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk About Bruno\u201d wrapped five weeks doubly dominating. (<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0are the only animated films to earn such honors. Plus, per the categorization of animated acts at No. 1 on the Hot 100, HUNTR\/X, the Archies and the Chipmunks are self-contained acts, whereas characters in\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0joined to sing \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk About Bruno,\u201d with billing given to their real-life names, not their roles in the film.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Browse the full rundown of this week\u2019s Hot 100 top 10 below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 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 Sept. 20, 2025) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow, Sept. 16. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4683\" data-postid=\"4683\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4683 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTR\/X slays the Archies and the Chipmunks (not literally). Saja Boys&nbsp;weren\u2019t the only animated singers in&nbsp;HUNTR\/X\u2019s way. HUNTR\/X, the heroic trio in Netflix\u2019s&nbsp;smash&nbsp;film&nbsp;KPop Demon Hunters, claims a fifth week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;with \u201cGolden\u201d \u2014 which becomes the sole longest-leading hit by an animated act in the chart\u2019s 67-year history. 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