We’re not just talking about the jaw-dropping soprano section of the song when we say “Golden” is going up, up, up. The track by the fictional K-pop girl group Huntr/x has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, bumping “Ordinary” singer Alex Warren to second place in the latest extraordinary achievement to come out of Netflix’s hit animated musical KPop Demon Hunters. In the film, the song’s power allows Rumi, Zoey, and Mira to keep demons from entering the human world; in real life, the trio’s tune kept Warren from enjoying another week at No. 1 after nine nonconsecutive ones atop the chart this summer.
“Golden” — performed by real-life artists Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami — debuted at No. 81 on the July 5 chart, two weeks after the movie dropped on Netflix. Per Billboard, the track got 31.7 million streams, 8.4 million radio-airplay impressions, and 7,000 U.S. sales during the week of August 1 to 7. Huntr/x’s demonic boy-band rivals, the Saja Boys, are also charting and have risen to No. 8 with “Your Idol” this week. “Golden” is the first K-pop song by female vocalists to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s also the first not to have Jimin from BTS on it: His solo “Like Crazy” and six of his group’s songs are the only other K-pop tracks to have topped the chart. ARMY may have a point when they say BTS has no living competition.
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