{"id":145072,"date":"2025-07-11T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=145072"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:41:54","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-slays-aussie-charts-and-takes-the-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/kpop-demon-hunters-slays-aussie-charts-and-takes-the-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters slays Aussie charts and takes the top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> soundtrack has officially made its way to the top of the <strong>ARIA Albums Chart<\/strong> in Australia. This marks the first time in 8 years since the songs from an animated film made moves in the Aussie charts, with the previous one having been\u201cTrolls\u201d in 2017. This might be an animated movie, but their bops and success are very real! <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KPop-Demon-Hunters-in-the-Australian-charts-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only is the album No. 1, but its songs are also storming the ARIA Singles Chart. \u201cGolden\u201d flew from No. 8 to No. 2, \u201cYour Idol\u201d hit the top 10. Meanwhile, other tracks like \u201cSoda Pop\u201d and \u201cHow It\u2019s Done\u201d are climbing up the tally, moving across the top 20 and top 30. The last soundtrack to top ARIA was Barbie: The Album in 2023, so clearly the power of HUNTR\/X and Saja Boys (the girl group and boy group in the film) is going strong. Meanwhile, Sydney punk band FANGZ scored their first top 10 with their debut album Shui, landing at No. 8. Lorde\u2019s Virgin stayed strong at No. 2, and Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Short n\u2019 Sweet slid into No. 3.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1941136325249585411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1941136325249585411%7Ctwgr%5E704cb632d46f34644cc01ff6b02a3c66e6315286%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicmundial.com%2Fen%2F2025%2F07%2F04%2Fnetflixs-kpop-demon-hunters-two-fictional-kpop-groups-just-dethroned-bts-and-blackpink-on-spotify%2F\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saja Boys and Huntrix have both surpassed BTS and BLACKPINK as the highest charting kpop groups on US Spotify respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8oqMrqlakT\">pic.twitter.com\/8oqMrqlakT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1941136325249585411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 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>Most recently, HUNTR\/X and Saja Boys outstreamed BLACKPINK and BTS on United States Spotify, proving the soundtrack&#8217;s global success. &#8220;Your Idol&#8221; climbed to No. 1 on the U.S. Spotify chart, beating BTS\u2019s \u201cDynamite,\u201d which peaked at No. 3 back in 2020. Similarly, the girl group from the same film,<strong>\u00a0HUNTR\/X<\/strong>, also soared to No. 1 with \u201c<strong>Golden<\/strong>,\u201d surpassing BLACKPINK for the highest-charting K-pop girl group in the U.S. Yes, fictional idols are out here setting records!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack has officially made its way to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart in Australia. This marks the first time in 8 years since the songs from an animated film made moves in the Aussie charts, with the previous one having been\u201cTrolls\u201d in 2017. This might be an animated movie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":145075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1353,2264,16],"tags":[3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-145072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charts","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145072","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=145072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}