Saja Boys weren’t the only animated singers in HUNTR/X’s way.
HUNTR/X, the heroic trio in Netflix’s smash film KPop Demon Hunters, claims a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Golden” — which becomes the sole longest-leading hit by an animated act in the chart’s 67-year history. Two previous cartoon tunes each reigned for four weeks: The Archies, with “Sugar, Sugar” in 1969, and the Chipmunks with David Seville, with “The Chipmunk Song” over the 1958 holiday season.
Upon the original ascent to No. 1 for “Golden,” HUNTR/X — the IRL singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the movie’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — became the first female group associated with Korean pop to crown the Hot 100.
KPop Demon Hunters has also become the first soundtrack to generate four simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s over the chart’s archives. The songs place in the bracket for a fourth week, with Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop” each up a spot to return to their respective Nos. 4 and 5 bests and HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done” lifting one place to a new No. 8 high.
Meanwhile, KPop Demon Hunters charts three songs in the Hot 100’s 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 Saturday Night Fever songs were all in the top five: Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” and “Stayin’ Alive” and Yvonne Eliiman’s Bee Gees-penned “If I Can’t Have You” (at Nos. 1, 2 and 5, respectively).
As previously reported, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack slashes its way to its first week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Thanks to the set and “Golden,” 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 Encanto and its ensemble anthem “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” wrapped five weeks doubly dominating. (KPop Demon Hunters and Encanto are the only animated films to earn such honors.)
Browse the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.
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‘Golden’ Streams, Airplay & Sales
“Golden,” on Visva/Republic Records, tallied 33.8 million official streams (down 2% week-over-week), 26.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 19%) and 8,000 sold (down 11%) in the United States Sept. 5-11. Notably, the song has cleared 30 million streams for six weeks running, the most for a title this year; Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” logged five such weeks.
“Golden” adds an eighth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; pushes 24-20 on Radio Songs; and dips to No. 3 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales.
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5 Weeks at No. 1 for ‘KPop’
Image Credit: Netflix “Golden” is the ninth song in the realm of Korean pop to rule the Hot 100, and the first by female lead vocalists with ties to the genre. (HUNTR/X singers EJAE and REI AMI were born in Seoul, South Korea; Nuna is from New Jersey.)
Among those nine, “Golden” becomes just the second to post at least five weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100:
- 10 weeks, BTS, “Butter,” beginning June 5, 2021
- 5, HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, “Golden,” beginning Aug. 16, 2025
- 3, BTS, “Dynamite,” beginning Sept. 5, 2020
- 1, Jung Kook, “Seven” (featuring Latto), July 29, 2023
- 1, Jimin, “Like Crazy,” April 8, 2023
- 1, BTS, “My Universe” (with Coldplay), Oct. 9, 2021
- 1, BTS, “Permission To Dance,” July 24, 2021
- 1, BTS, “Life Goes On,” Dec. 5, 2020
- 1, BTS, “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo), Oct. 17, 2020
Plus, “Golden” ties for the third-longest Hot 100 command for a song by an all-female group of three or more members, dating to the first four-week No. 1 in the category in 1963:
- 11 weeks, Destiny’s Child, “Independent Women Part 1,” beginning Nov. 18, 2000
- 7, TLC, “Waterfalls,” beginning July 8, 1995
- 5, HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, “Golden,” beginning Aug. 16, 2025
- 5, The Emotions, “Best of My Love,” beginning Aug. 20, 1977
- 4, TLC, “No Scrubs,” beginning April 10, 1999
- 4, TLC, “Creep,” beginning Jan. 28, 1995
- 4, Bangles, “Walk Like an Egyptian,” beginning Dec. 20, 1986
- 4, The Supremes, “Baby Love,” beginning Oct. 31, 1964
- 4, The Chiffons, “He’s So Fine,” beginning March 30, 1963
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Rest of Top 10: ‘Ordinary’ & More
Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” keeps at No. 2, after 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June. It adds a 13th frame at No. 1 on Radio Songs, up 3% to 75.1 million in audience; it’s the first song this year to reach 75 million in weekly reach, and the first since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” last October. Warren performed “Ordinary” (in a medley with fellow ballad “Eternity”) Sept. 7 on the MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on CBS; it also gained by 1% to 23.2 million streams in the tracking week.
Two songs by Sabrina Carpenter sandwich Saja Boys’ Hot 100 top 10s: “Manchild,” which led in its debut week in June, rises 4-3 and “Tears,” which Carpenter performed on the VMAs, drops 3-6 in its second week on the chart.
Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, holds at No. 7, after it reigned in its first week in May , becoming Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. It posts a 17th week atop the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart.
Below HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done,” which leads the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart for an 11th week, Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” falls 8-9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5, and Justin Bieber’s No. 2-peaking “Daisies” returns to the top 10 (11-10).
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