{"id":1971980,"date":"2025-08-21T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1971980"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:41:35","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-and-the-band-babymetal-hit-fresh-milestones-on-the-pop-charts-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kpop-demon-hunters-and-the-band-babymetal-hit-fresh-milestones-on-the-pop-charts-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 and the band Babymetal hit fresh milestones on the pop charts : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-83938\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 1072;&#10;        --source-height: 804;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1072x804+424+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F24%2Fe0%2F88d823814fdb8e17f7e28ad5351b%2Fkpopdemonhunters-prores422hq-sdr-2ch-20250424-00-06-05-14.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1025px) 650px, calc(100vw - 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30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                The <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> juggernaut hasn&#8217;t lost an iota of steam.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    NETFLIX<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        NETFLIX<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>This week, two old standbys \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/963693317\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>&#8216;s <em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-60448\/alex-warren\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Warren<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; \u2014 top the <em>Billboard<\/em> albums and singles charts, respectively. But there are still milestones to be found, as four new albums (by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/673326638\/gunna\" target=\"_blank\">Gunna<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/487530447\/machine-gun-kelly\" target=\"_blank\">MGK<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/699307856\/jonas-brothers\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Brothers<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/470701414\/babymetal\" target=\"_blank\">Babymetal<\/a>) debut in the top 10. Then there&#8217;s the continued success of the <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> soundtrack, which this week places three songs in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 simultaneously.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">TOP ALBUMS<\/h3>\n<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 albums chart follows a familiar pattern: Morgan Wallen&#8217;s <em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em> and the soundtrack to <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> sit at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, while fresh debuts help crowd <em>last<\/em> week&#8217;s debuts out of the top 10. Gone are recent albums from $uicideboy$, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1252450491\/renee-rapp\" target=\"_blank\">Rene\u00e9 Rapp<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1219283481\/yeat\" target=\"_blank\">Yeat<\/a>, as well as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1252459810\/sabrina-carpenter\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Short n&#8217; Sweet<\/em>, which takes a more modest dip to No. 13.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In their place are four of the latest debuts, most of which look primed to be short-timers in their own right. At No. 3, Gunna&#8217;s <em>The Last Wun<\/em> would seem to be in the best position to stick around for a bit, given that most of its numbers are derived from streaming. But it&#8217;s followed by three titles that benefit enormously from physical sales \u2014 which, as always, tend to be front-loaded toward a title&#8217;s first seven days and don&#8217;t carry over from week to week where the charts are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>First up, MGK \u2014 that&#8217;s the artist sometimes known as Machine Gun Kelly \u2014 debuts at No. 4 with his new album <em>Lost Americana<\/em>. At No. 6, Jonas Brothers return to the top 10 with <em>Greetings from Your Hometown<\/em>, though the album&#8217;s sales-heavy numbers are boosted by an absurd number of variant editions, vinyl, deluxe versions with bonus tracks and so on. (There are, in fact, <em>more than 50<\/em> CD variants \u2014 enough, in fact, that it&#8217;s hard to imagine even the most degenerate Jonas diehards bothering to collect them all.)<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the latest album by the Japanese band Babymetal. The group \u2014 which fuses sugary pop and, well, metal \u2014 has been releasing albums for more than a decade. But it&#8217;s never cracked the top 10 until this week, as <em>Metal Forth<\/em> debuts at No. 9. The vast majority of its numbers are derived from sales, with a set of variant editions to give even those of the aforementioned Jonases a run for their money: 15 vinyl variants, six CD editions, three cassette editions and so on. It would be a shocking upset if <em>Metal Forth<\/em> is still sniffing the chart&#8217;s upper regions next week, but a top 10 hit is a top 10 hit.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, three notable \u2014 and decidedly different \u2014 debuts pop up just below the top 10: The rapper <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/673008063\/j-i-d\" target=\"_blank\">JID<\/a> bows at No. 11 with <em>God Does Like Ugly<\/em>, the country singer Bailey Zimmerman kicks off a new chart run at No. 12 with <em>Different Night Same Rodeo<\/em> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/970317253\/ethel-cain\" target=\"_blank\">Ethel Cain<\/a> enters the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 at No. 14 with <em>Willoughby Tucker, I&#8217;ll Always Love You<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s worth noting that <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> continues to close the gap on <em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em>. Both are blockbusters on streaming, but while Wallen&#8217;s album is fading ever-so-incrementally, <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> has experienced gains every week \u2014 based on the chart metric known as &#8220;equivalent album units&#8221; \u2014 since its debut eight weeks ago. (That&#8217;s exceedingly rare on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 in the streaming era.)<\/p>\n<p><em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> will almost certainly experience a boost from the release of physical editions this fall. The question is whether it can fend off the competition long enough to hit No. 1 before every life form on earth gets crushed under the heel of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/120581188\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Taylor Swift<\/u><\/a>&#8216;s <em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> shortly after its scheduled release in October.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">TOP SONGS<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking of <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, HUNTR\/X&#8217;s &#8220;Golden&#8221; finally hit No. 1 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/13\/g-s1-82371\/golden-huntr-x-k-pop-demon-hunters-billboard-charts\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>, thanks to robust streaming numbers and a much-needed surge of radio airplay. That left Alex Warren&#8217;s &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; sitting, bereft, at No. 2 after nine nonconsecutive weeks atop the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. This week, &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; and its hardworking choir exact their cloying revenge, as they return to No. 1, fueled in part by a fresh live recording from Lollapalooza featuring country star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/570174121\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Giving &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; a country makeover was a smart move, given how long major country hits can sit in heavy rotation; just ask <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-9121\/shaboozey\" target=\"_blank\">Shaboozey<\/a> and Morgan Wallen, whose songs have been mainstays in the top 10 for ages now. Heck, Shaboozey&#8217;s &#8220;A Bar Song (Tipsy)&#8221; is still milling around in the top 10 in its <em>70th week<\/em> on the chart, more than a year after it began its record-tying 19-week run at No. 1. If &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; remains in the top 10 at this time next year, don&#8217;t say you haven&#8217;t been warned.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> juggernaut hasn&#8217;t lost an iota of steam; though it couldn&#8217;t compete with the Combs-fueled surge for &#8220;Ordinary,&#8221; &#8220;Golden&#8221; still posts significant gains as it falls to No. 2. Its already-robust streaming numbers are up 4%, while its airplay numbers \u2014 the biggest drag on its efforts to compete with &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; \u2014 climb 38% over last week. These songs are going to be neck-and-neck for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only gain posted by <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> where the Hot 100 is concerned. The album was already one of the biggest soundtracks to come along in years, joining the rarefied chart air of such recent blockbusters as <em>Wicked<\/em>, <em>Barbie<\/em> and <em>Encanto<\/em>. But this week, it posts a milestone none of those phenomena could achieve: For the first time in its chart run, <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> posts three songs in the top 10 simultaneously. Not only does HUNTR\/X sit at No. 2 with &#8220;Golden,&#8221; but HUNTR\/X&#8217;s onscreen rivals in Saja Boys \u2014 five of the demons to which the film&#8217;s title alludes \u2014 now have <em>two<\/em> songs in the top 10: &#8220;Your Idol&#8221; and &#8220;Soda Pop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It used to be common for movie soundtracks to land multiple songs in the top 10: <em>Purple Rain<\/em>, <em>Footloose<\/em>, <em>The Bodyguard<\/em> and countless others have pulled it off over the years. More recently, <em>Encanto<\/em> and <em>Barbie<\/em> came close. But in Hot 100 history, dating back to 1958, only three soundtracks have landed three top 10 hits <em>simultaneously<\/em>: <em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em>, <em>Waiting to Exhale<\/em> and now <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? It&#8217;s within the realm of possibility that HUNTR\/X&#8217;s &#8220;How It&#8217;s Done&#8221; could eventually soon join its brethren in the top 10. This week, it climbs from No. 19 to No. 14, with three more K-pop bangers from the movie trailing not too far behind.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">WORTH NOTING<\/h3>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t as flashy a milestone as three simultaneous top 10 hits, but it&#8217;s worth noting. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/532236099\/sza\" target=\"_blank\">SZA<\/a>&#8216;s album <em>SOS<\/em> has been a chart mainstay since its release near the end of 2022 \u2014 a run bolstered by the release of a supersized deluxe edition two years later. This week, <em>SOS<\/em> spends its 100th week in the top 10; in chart history, that number is exceeded by only two other albums (excluding soundtracks and cast recordings).<\/p>\n<p><em>SOS<\/em> is the first album by a woman to accomplish the feat, but we can get even more specific than that: It&#8217;s the first (not-a-soundtrack, not-a-cast-recording) album <em>by an artist other than Morgan Wallen<\/em> to spend 100 or more weeks in the top 10. Wallen has made it happen twice, with 2021&#8217;s <em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em> (165 weeks) and <em>One Thing at a Time<\/em> (121 weeks).<\/p>\n<p>One thing all three albums have in common, besides recency and ongoing success? They are <em>looooooong<\/em>, which does help goose an album&#8217;s stats in the streaming era. Though some deluxe versions run a hair longer, <em>Dangerous<\/em> is generally understood to contain 30 songs, while <em>One Thing at a Time<\/em> has 36. (Don&#8217;t be surprised if <em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em>, with its 37 tracks, joins the 100-week club sometime in 2027.) In its current form, <em>SOS Deluxe: LANA<\/em> spans an incredible 42 tracks.<\/p>\n<p>As for the all-time record for most weeks in the top 10, the 1956 original cast recording of <em>My Fair Lady<\/em> spent 173 weeks there \u2014 including stops at No. 1 in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. 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