{"id":144588,"date":"2025-07-02T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=144588"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:05:21","slug":"netflixs-saja-boys-just-made-k-pop-history-tying-bts-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/netflixs-saja-boys-just-made-k-pop-history-tying-bts-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s Saja Boys just made K-pop history, tying BTS on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over <strong>BTS<\/strong>, there\u2019s a new boy group climbing<strong> Spotify<\/strong>\u2019s top charts! The <strong>Saja Boys<\/strong> from <strong>KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong>, Netflix\u2019s mega-hit movie that dropped on June 20, just became the second Korean boy group ever to crack the U.S. Spotify Top 10. Their song \u201cYour Idol\u201d hit No. 8 on June 26, officially placing them in the same elite tier as BTS.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1940043638710706311\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saja Boys tie BTS as the highest charting male K-Pop group in US Spotify history (#3; &quot;Your Idol&quot; and &quot;Dynamite&quot;). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aig7oY4HAx\">pic.twitter.com\/aig7oY4HAx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; chart data (@chartdata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1940043638710706311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The animated film, which tells the wild story of a K-pop girl group who transform into demon slayers, has taken <strong>Netflix<\/strong> by storm. It\u2019s been No. 1 in at least 22 countries and already has fans begging for a sequel. The girl group in question, HUNTR\/X, has to battle the Saja Boys, who are essentially soul-sucking demons that make chart-topping tracks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1940017549963575553\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huntrix and Saja Boys are currently on pace to own the most streamed songs for a kpop girl and boy group on Spotify in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kWMujygQxP\">pic.twitter.com\/kWMujygQxP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1940017549963575553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aside from its demon-hunting drama, KPop Demon Hunters also brings the bops. Songs like \u201c<strong>Golden<\/strong>\u201d by HUNTR\/X and \u201c<strong>Your Idol<\/strong>\u201d by the Saja Boys are dominating streaming charts. And with this latest feat, Saja Boys also become the first-ever fifth-generation K-pop group to break into U.S. Spotify\u2019s Top 10. Not bad for animated idols, huh? BTS better make room, the Saja Boys are here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over BTS, there\u2019s a new boy group climbing Spotify\u2019s top charts! The Saja Boys from KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix\u2019s mega-hit movie that dropped on June 20, just became the second Korean boy group ever to crack the U.S. Spotify Top 10. Their song \u201cYour Idol\u201d hit No. 8 on June 26, officially placing them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":144589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,1399],"tags":[49,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-144588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-movies","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-netflix"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}