‘Saturday Night Fever’ to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Soundtracks With Three or More Hot 100 Top 10s

In the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, galore blockbuster movies were practically synonymous with the euphony featured successful them oregon connected their star-packed soundtracks.

For immoderate films, euphony was woven into their plots, making for a earthy fit, specified arsenic the dance-floor odes Saturday Night Fever and Footloose.

In different cases, philharmonic superstars segued to onscreen starring roles — and did treble work by supplying memorable songs, specified arsenic Prince with Purple Rain and Whitney Houston with The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.

Meanwhile, Dirty Dancing became a conveyance for prima Patrick Swayze to marque his illustration debut arsenic a signaling artist.

Other soundtracks, specified arsenic 2 entries successful the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, mostly became collections of smash songs, much loosely bound by their cinematic ties.

Not lone did soundtrack songs heighten moviegoers’ experiences, but galore became large hits connected the Billboard Hot 100, with aggregate soundtracks generating 3 oregon much apical 10s.

By the 2000s, the travel of soundtracks packed with hits had stalled. A Billboard communicative successful 2004 outlined assorted reasons for their decline, from oversaturation to filmmakers attempting to marque songs enactment successful storylines and rising creator fees.

Now, aft a drought of 28 years, a soundtrack has generated not lone three, but 4 Hot 100 apical 10s erstwhile again: Netflix’s animated KPop Demon Hunters. The acceptable slays with HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” which archetypal hit No. 1 connected the Aug. 16 chart, and “How It’s Done” and Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop.”

The soundtrack has besides go the archetypal to person boasted 4 Hot 100 apical 10s simultaneously, surpassing Saturday Night Fever and Waiting to Exhale, each of which stacked 3 astatine a time. The latter, notably, yielded a grounds 5 full apical 10s.

“It’s truthful thrilling that radical are proceeding the songs successful 2 ways,” KPop Demon Hunters enforcement euphony shaper Ian Eisendrath antecedently told Billboard. “Some are loving the film, and the movie is making the songs hits … and past immoderate radical are conscionable encountering the songs, and the songs are making the movie a hit.”

Popcorn and popular hits: Here’s a look astatine soundtracks that person spun disconnected 3 oregon much Hot 100 apical 10s.

(Small print, similar the credits astatine the extremity of a movie: Only soundtracks with 3 oregon much Hot 100 apical 10s released from them arsenic singles are included below. So, nary Help! by the Beatles, arsenic the rubric way and “Ticket to Ride” were released from the 1965 album’s U.S. mentation but 3rd No. 1 “Yesterday” was not connected its American tracklist. Plus, 1985’s Miami Vice TV soundtrack houses 3 apical 10s, but Tina Turner’s “Better Be Good to Me” was released arsenic a azygous from her medium Private Dancer and became a deed a twelvemonth earlier. Meanwhile, 1998’s City of Angels includes 3 songs that became apical 10s connected the Radio Songs chart, but Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited” was not released arsenic a commercialized azygous and ne'er deed the Hot 100.)