HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Leads Hot 100 for Fifth Week — the Most Ever for an Animated Act

Saja Boys weren’t the lone animated singers successful HUNTR/X’s way.

HUNTR/X, the heroic trio successful Netflix’s smash film KPop Demon Hunters, claims a 5th week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 with “Golden” — which becomes the sole longest-leading deed by an animated enactment successful the chart’s 67-year history. Two erstwhile cartoon tunes each reigned for 4 weeks: The Archies, with “Sugar, Sugar” successful 1969, and the Chipmunks with David Seville, with “The Chipmunk Song” implicit the 1958 vacation 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 archetypal pistillate radical associated with Korean popular to crown the Hot 100.

KPop Demon Hunters has besides go the archetypal soundtrack to make four simultaneous Hot 100 apical 10s implicit the chart’s archives. The songs spot successful the bracket for a 4th week, with Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop” each up a spot to instrumentality to their respective Nos. 4 and 5 bests and HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done” lifting 1 spot to a caller No. 8 high.

Meanwhile, KPop Demon Hunters charts 3 songs successful the Hot 100’s apical 5 simultaneously for a 3rd week. It surpasses the lone different soundtrack that spun disconnected 3 concurrent apical 5 hits: For 2 weeks (April 8 and 15, 1978), 3 Saturday Night Fever songs were each successful the apical 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 antecedently reported, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack slashes its mode to its first week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 chart. Thanks to the acceptable and “Golden,” a soundtrack and 1 of its songs pb the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, respectively, for the archetypal clip since the charts dated March 5, 2022, erstwhile Encanto and its ensemble anthem “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” wrapped 5 weeks doubly dominating. (KPop Demon Hunters and Encanto are the lone animated films to gain specified honors.)

Browse the afloat rundown of this week’s Hot 100 apical 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and authoritative video), vigor airplay and income data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of carnal singles and integer tracks from full-service integer euphony retailers; integer singles income from direct-to-consumer (D2...