The Bands of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Are Having a Charts Battle in Actual Life Too

Netflix and Sony Footage Animation’s K-Pop Demon Hunters is presently topping the streamer’s most-watched rankings, and in a humorous life-imitating-art second, the soundtrack’s main singles from the film’s songwriter EJAE at the moment are battling it out on the Billboard 100.

Within the movie, the heroic Huntrix, who battle demons by stage gentle, are fan-favorite Okay-pop performers who discover themselves dealing with an enormous risk when a brand new boy band goes viral. Sadly, the good-looking and debonair Saja Boys additionally occur to be demons. Their darkish pop music casts a spell on the entire of music fandom throughout the film’s universe with “Soda Pop” and “Your Idol,” which threaten to steal souls for the movie’s huge unhealthy.

Now, in accordance with Billboard, the ability of the Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” is charting at 77th place—a couple of notches above Huntrix’s “Golden,” which is presently slotted at 88. It’s a real-life Huntrix vs. Saja Boys battle, and we’re dwelling for it. For a movie that was simply launched, that’s large.

Within the two weeks since its drop on Netflix, the songs have been going viral on social media, with followers searching for out the soundtrack for the full-length tracks. In response to Billboard, “throughout its first 4 days of launch (June 20-23), the 12 songs on the soundtrack earned a complete of 13.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams … one week later (June 27-30), that quantity greater than tripled to 42.8 million streams (up 220%).”

Whereas “Your Idol” and “Golden” are main the pack proper now, different soundtrack earworms, together with “What It Sounds Like” and “Free,” are additionally monitoring very nicely. This might bode nicely for Netflix and Sony Footage Animation within the upcoming awards season—particularly in the case of Greatest Authentic Track consideration. To see TWICE carry out “Takedown” or “Golden” on the Oscars can be unbelievable.

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