Hot 100 First-Timers: Tame Impala Bites Into the Chart With ‘Dracula’

After much than a decennary headlining festivals, raking successful 5 Grammy nods and dominating Billboard’s stone and alternate charts, Tame Impala yet achieves a long-awaited milestone — scoring its archetypal vocation introduction connected the Billboard Hot 100.

Kevin Parker’s psych-pop task debuts connected the illustration this week with its caller single, “Dracula.” The opus enters astatine No. 55 connected the Oct. 11-dated tally, acknowledgment to 6.5 cardinal authoritative U.S. streams, 1.7 cardinal vigor assemblage impressions and 1,000 sold successful its archetypal week of merchandise (Sept 26-Oct. 2), according to Luminate. It’s the 3rd azygous from Tame Impala’s 5th workplace album, Deadbeat, owed Oct. 17.

The album’s archetypal 2 singles, “End of Summer” and “Loser,” each came adjacent to debuting connected the Hot 100, some reaching the apical 10 of the Bubbling Under Hot 100 ranking. Still, “End of Summer” peaked astatine No. 7 connected Hot Dance/Pop Songs and No. 12 connected Hot Alternative Songs, portion “Loser” reached No. 14 connected Hot Alternative Songs. “Dracula” has emerged arsenic Deadbeat’s wide breakout, though, becoming the set’s archetypal vigor hit. The opus opens astatine No. 23 connected Rock & Alternative Airplay and No. 31 connected Alternative Airplay, portion besides debuting astatine Nos. 7 and 8, respectively, connected the multimetric Hot Alternative Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts.

While “Dracula” marks Tame Impala’s archetypal Hot 100 entry, Kevin Parker himself has appeared connected the illustration earlier arsenic some a shaper and songwriter. He antecedently charted 5 songs connected the ranking successful his vocation arsenic a shaper oregon co-producer: Lady Gaga’s “Perfect Illusion” (No. 15 highest successful 2016), Travis Scott’s “Skeletons” (No. 47, 2018; it samples Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”), The Weeknd’s “Repeat After Me (Interlude)” (No. 69, 2020) and Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” (No. 11, 2023), “Training Season” (No. 27, 2024) and “Illusion” (No. 43, 2024).

Parker is besides credited arsenic a songwriter connected each six of those tracks and has songwriting credits connected 3 different Hot 100-charted hits: Kanye West’s “Violent Crimes” (No. 27, 2018), Kid Cudi’s “Dive” (No. 80, 2020; it samples Tame Impala’s “Love/Paranoia”) and Don Toliver’s “Bandit” (No. 38, 2024; it samples Tame Impala’s “One More Hour”).

Even without a anterior Hot 100 hit, Tame Impala has agelong been a unit crossed Billboard’s charts. Three of the act&rsqu...