{"id":146962,"date":"2025-08-16T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=146962"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:11:58","slug":"top-10-kpop-demon-hunters-smashes-records-and-returns-to-1-on-the-uk-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/top-10-kpop-demon-hunters-smashes-records-and-returns-to-1-on-the-uk-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10: KPop Demon Hunters smashes records and returns to #1 on the UK charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15, 2025, <strong>KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> reminded everyone how it\u2019s done! After briefly losing the top spot, their hit single \u201c<strong>Golden<\/strong>,\u201d performed by the fictional girl group HUNTR\/X, bounced back to #1 in the U.K., making history as the first K-pop track to claim the crown since PSY\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d in 2012.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1951334393324122371\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HUNTR\/X&#39;s &quot;Golden&quot; becomes the first #1 K-Pop hit on the UK singles chart since PSY&#39;s &quot;Gangnam Style&quot; in 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GqQIDTWy85\">pic.twitter.com\/GqQIDTWy85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; chart data (@chartdata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1951334393324122371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 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 soundtrack has been smashing streaming records, racking up 18,631 equivalent sales in one week. That number toppled the Barbie soundtrack\u2019s 2023 record and sent two more Demon Hunters tracks into the top ten, \u201c<strong>Soda Pop<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Your Idol<\/strong>.\u201d And while the songs from the movie might be sung by fictional groups, their success is very real. With concert screenings and massive streaming numbers, KPop Demon Hunters is proving their musical powers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chappell Roan\u2019s The Subway held on strong at No. 2 while Disco Lines and Tinashe cracked the top three with No Broke Boys. But the week belonged to Golden, which reclaimed its throne. Catch the full top 10 here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-1100x733.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-680x453.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Uk-singles-chart-200x133.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15, 2025, KPop Demon Hunters reminded everyone how it\u2019s done! After briefly losing the top spot, their hit single \u201cGolden,\u201d performed by the fictional girl group HUNTR\/X, bounced back to #1 in the U.K., making history as the first K-pop track to claim the crown since PSY\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d in 2012. The soundtrack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":146978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,1402],"tags":[3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-146962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-list","10":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146962","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=146962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}