‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Achieves a Feat Not Seen Since ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Almost 50 Years Ago

The success of KPop Demon Hunters just keeps surprising everyone. The animated Netflix musical has now joined music history in a way no one expected.

At the heart of it is HUNTR/X, the girl group from the movie. Their track Golden hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 two weeks ago.

It slipped to number two last week, but now it’s back on top again. According to Billboard, the song isn’t alone. Several other tracks from the film are also climbing the charts.

Right now, KPop Demon Hunters has three songs sitting in the Top 5 of the Hot 100. Golden is at number one, while the Saja Boys’ Your Idol is at number four and their Soda Pop is at number five. HUNTR/X also has How It’s Done sitting at number ten.

Billboard notes that this is the first time in more than 45 years that a movie soundtrack has placed three songs in the Top 5 at the same time.

The last film to manage that was Saturday Night Fever back in 1977. It’s also the first time any soundtrack has ever had four songs in the Top 10 in a single week.

For comparison, the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack had five Top 10 singles in the mid-1990s, but they didn’t all peak in the Top 10 at once.

That’s what makes KPop Demon Hunters different. It has pushed several tracks into the top spots all at the same time, something that hasn’t happened in decades.

The wins aren’t just happening on the music charts. The movie has also become a box office success.

After weeks of dominating streaming on Netflix, the film was released in theaters for the first time last weekend. It made between 16 and 18 million dollars, landing in the number one spot for the week. Billboard points out that this is the first time a Netflix movie has ever taken the top spot at the box office.

Outside of the KPop Demon Hunters songs, the rest of the Hot 100 includes Alex Warren’s Ordinary at number two, Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s What I Want at number three, Ravyn Lenae’s Love Me Not at number six, Teddy Swims’ Lose Control at number seven, Justin Bieber’s Daisies at number eight, and Wallen’s Just In Case at number nine.

KPop Demon Hunters has now proven itself to be more than just another Netflix release. With music, streaming, and now theaters, it’s rewriting what’s possible for an animated musical.

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