After dominating Netflix’s most-watched chart since its launch simply over a month in the past, these KPop Demon Hunters are actually coming for the real-life pop charts.
The animated household musical, as its identify suggests, centres round a Okay-pop woman group named HUNTR/X, who additionally moonlight as demon hunters.
Nonetheless, they meet their match when a rival boyband, the Saja Boys, arrive on the scene, made up of 5 secret demons in search of world domination.
Since KPop Demon Hunters premiered on Netflix on the finish of June, the film has gained a loyal following (on the time of writing, it’s at the moment nonetheless at quantity two on the platform’s most-watched movies record), and its unique songs have additionally develop into streaming hits.
On Friday night, the film’s attain hit new heights when it was confirmed by the Official Charts Firm that HUNTRX’s signature hit Golden – carried out within the film by Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami – had reached primary within the UK.
Not solely is Golden the primary Okay-pop music to achieve this accolade since Psy’s Gangnam Fashion greater than a decade in the past, it’s additionally the primary time a music from an animated film has hit primary since We Don’t Discuss About Bruno from the Encanto soundtrack did the identical three years in the past.
However Golden isn’t the one KPop Demon Hunters reduce to chart within the UK this week.
The Saja Boys haven’t one however two hits within the high 20, with Your Idol at 10 and Soda Pop one place behind at 11.
In the meantime, the movie’s soundtrack album (that includes different numbers from the movie together with How It’s Accomplished, Take Down and Free) can be at primary within the UK’s official compilations chart for the sixth week operating.
KPop Demon Hunters is now streaming on Netflix, for many who’ve nonetheless not had time to test it out. Hearken to HUNTR/X’s Golden under:
