‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Hit “Golden” Tops Hot 100

KPop Demon Hunters‘ breakout hit “Golden” has topped the Billboard Hot 100 this week, the publication confirmed Monday, the latest affirmation of the movie and soundtrack’s global takeover since its release on Netflix back in June.

“Golden,” performed by the movie’s fictional protagonist group Huntrix, tops the chart seven weeks after it first debuted at No. 81 at the beginning of July, steadily rising over the past month. It dethrones Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which has topped the Hot 100 for an overwhelming nine of the past 10 weeks, with the Atlantic rising star’s song of the summer moving to No. 2.

“Golden” took the top spot with 31.7 million streams, 7,000 sales and 8.4 million radio airplay impressions, per Billboard. Elsewhere, pop superstar Chappell Roan debuted at No. 3 this week with her latest single, “The Subway,” her second Top 5 debut of the year after country-tinged “The Giver” opened at No. 5 back in March. “The Subway” opened with 25.1 million streams and 6,000 sales. Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s “What I Want” and Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” round out the top five this week.

“Golden” is the biggest song from the Demon Hunters soundtrack so far, though it’s not the only hit. Saja Boys track “Your Idol” came in at eighth this week, rising from the No. 9 spot this week. As of this story’s publication, the Demon Hunters soundtrack holds six of the top 10 songs on Spotify’s U.S. 50 chart, and four of the top five. “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop” took the No. 2 and No. 4 slots there, while “How It’s Done,” “What It Sounds Like” and “Takedown” took fifth, eighth and 10th, respectively.

The KPop Demon Hunters film and its soundtrack have become two of the biggest unexpected hits in film and music this year. The animated feature has officially shot to the No. 4 spot on Netflix’s most popular English-language films list with 158.8 million views, according to data released by Netflix last week, and it doesn’t show signs of stopping. The film — which co-director Maggie Kang says is “very culturally Korean, on a deeper level” — has caught the eye of the K-pop industry itself, including Jungkook of BTS broke down and reacted to the film in detail on a live stream for fans.

Republic Records and Visva Records, the new label from songwriter-producer Savan Kotecha, are overseeing the soundtrack, which is now poised to become perhaps the biggest soundtrack of 2025.

“I think we all had pretty modest expectations, I’m not going to lie, you don’t know when these things break,” Republic Records chairman and CEO Jim Roppo told THR last week. “But as the music business and the movie business shows you time and time again, the universe speaks sometimes, and you just have to listen with your eyes and your ears and then move quickly and say lots of thank yous.”