With Seventh Week Atop Hot 100, HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Now Among All-Time Top 10 Longest-Leading No. 1s From Movies

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HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s smash film KPop Demon Hunters, tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh week — becoming 1 of the 10 longest-leading No. 1s from a movie implicit the chart’s 67-year history.

Meanwhile, “Golden” ties TLC’s “Waterfalls,” from 1995, arsenic the second-longest-leading Hot 100 hits ever by all-women groups. The lone specified opus with much clip astatine No. 1: Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women Part I” dominated for 11 weeks successful 2000-01.

Previously, “Golden,” which first glowed atop the Hot 100 successful August, made HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, successful the roles of KPop Demon Hunters characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey — the archetypal pistillate radical associated with Korean popular to regularisation the chart. “Golden” is besides the sole longest-leading deed by an animated group successful the Hot 100’s archives, portion KPop Demon Hunters became the archetypal soundtrack to rotation disconnected four simultaneous Hot 100 apical 10s.

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

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“Golden” Streams, Airplay & Sales

“Golden,” connected Visva/Republic Records, tallied 33.8 cardinal authoritative streams (up 5% week-over-week), 33.9 cardinal vigor airplay assemblage impressions (up 11%) — caller play highs for the opus successful each metric — and 8,000 sold (up 2%) successful the United States Sept. 19-25. (Helping its illustration successful the tracking week: contestant Jourdan Blue covered “Golden” successful the last circular of the latest play of NBC’s America’s Got Talent connected Sept. 23.)

The way adds a 10th week astatine No. 1 connected the Streaming Songs chart; jumps 16-9 connected Radio Songs; and rebounds 3-2 aft 2 weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Since Streaming Songs began successful 2013, “Golden” is conscionable the 20th of 170 full No. 1s to pb for double-digit weeks. Plus, it’s the archetypal Radio Songs apical 10 ever by an animated act, having outperformed cartoon tunes that deed the chart’s apical 40 by Gorillaz successful the 2000s and (hopefully helium doesn’t person a cattle if learning this) Bart Simpson successful the ‘90s.
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