{"id":170409,"date":"2025-07-01T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/kpop-demon-hunters-ends-hit-soundtrack-drought-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:16:55","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-ends-hit-soundtrack-drought-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/kpop-demon-hunters-ends-hit-soundtrack-drought-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Ends Hit Soundtrack\u00a0Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe drought is officially over.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy entering the Billboard 200<\/a> at No. 8, KPop Demon Hunters <\/em>becomes the highest-charting soundtrack since Wicked<\/em> ranked No. 8 on the chart dated Jan. 25, on its way down from its No. 2 peak.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis ends a nine-week stretch in which there wasn\u2019t a single soundtrack in the top half of Billboard<\/em>\u2019s flagship albums chart. Things were particularly bleak the last two weeks, when the highest-charting soundtrack (Twisters: The Album<\/em>) was way down at No. 175. That album had debuted and peaked at No. 7 in August 2024, but was leading Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Soundtracks chart in recent weeks largely because there was no fresh competition.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere is now. The KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> soundtrack was released through Republic Records on June 20, the same day the film premiered on Netflix. The album was preceded by Twice<\/a>\u2018s version of \u201cTakedown\u201d as the lead single.<\/p>\n

\n\tKPop Demon Hunters<\/em> is the highest-charting soundtrack from an animated film since Metro Boomin<\/a>\u2019s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse<\/em> ranked No. 7 on the Billboard 200 dated July 1, 2023, on its way down from its No. 5 peak.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard<\/em>\u2019s Keith Caulfield reports that it\u2019s the first soundtrack from a Netflix program to reach No. 1 on Top Soundtracks in more than two years \u2014 since Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4<\/em>, re-entered atop the list dated Nov. 19, 2022.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnd when it rains, it pours: Another hot soundtrack, F1: The Album<\/em>, was released on June 27 and is expected to debut high on next week\u2019s Billboard 200. Five singles have been released from the album \u2013 Don Toliver<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLose My Mind\u201d (featuring Doja Cat<\/a>), Ros\u00e9\u2019s \u201cMessy,\u201d Myke Towers<\/a>\u2019 \u201cBaja California,\u201d Tate McRae<\/a>\u2019s \u201cJust Keep Watching\u201d and Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf both KPop Demon Hunters <\/em>and F1: The Album<\/em> appear in the top 10 on next week\u2019s Billboard 200, it will mark the first time that two soundtracks have appeared in the top 10 simultaneously since the chart dated Jan. 8, 2022, when Encanto <\/em>ranked No. 7 and the Vince Guaraldi Trio<\/a>\u2019s legendary soundtrack from 1965\u2019s A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> ranked No. 8.<\/p>\n

\n\tF1: The Movie<\/em> was the weekend\u2019s top-grossing film in the U.S. and Canada, with an estimated gross of $55.6 million, according to boxofficemojo.com. It bumped How to Train Your Dragon,<\/em> the boxoffice leader the two previous weekends, down to No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the full tracklist from KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTAKEDOWN\u201d \u2013 Twice (Jeongyeon, Jihyo, Chaeyoung)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHow It\u2019s Done\u201d \u2013 HUNTR\/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSoda Pop\u201d \u2013 Saja Boys (Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, and samUIL Lee)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d \u2013 HUNTR\/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStrategy\u201d \u2013 Twice<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTAKEDOWN\u201d \u2013 HUNTR\/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYour Idol\u201d \u2013 Saja Boys (Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, and samUIL Lee)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFree\u201d \u2013 Rumi and Jinu (EJAE and Andrew Choi)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat It Sounds Like\u201d \u2013 HUNTR\/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLove Maybe\u201d \u2013 MeloMance<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPath\u201d \u2013 Jokers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The drought is officially over. By entering the Billboard 200 at No. 8, KPop Demon Hunters becomes the highest-charting soundtrack since Wicked ranked No. 8 on the chart dated Jan. 25, on its way down from its No. 2 peak. Related Where Are the Blockbuster Soundtracks? The Screen Has Gone Dark for Hit Movie Albums […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}