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4 songs in the top 10. Only movie Soundtrack to do so, and the first album in 30 years to do so.
KPop Demon Hunters is also the first soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all in nearly 30 years.
KPop Demon Hunters becomes just the fifth soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all, and the first since Waiting To Exhale spun off a record five in 1995-96.
Upon the original coronation of “Golden,” HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — became the first female group associated with Korean pop to top the Hot 100. The act also became the first all-woman collective of three or more members to reign in 24 years, since Destiny’s Child with “Bootylicious” for two weeks in August 2001.
Will add that this seems eye rolling to us older people, but the Alphas and Zoomie Zooms have grown up in the dark age. The idea that pop music can be more then an autotuned hell scape of simple chords and rap "lyrics" is alien, so something more classical lands hard.
Led by HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ at No. 1, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Becomes First Soundtrack With Four Simultaneous Hot 100 Top 10s
KPop Demon Hunters is also the first soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all in nearly 30 years.
KPop Demon Hunters becomes just the fifth soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all, and the first since Waiting To Exhale spun off a record five in 1995-96.
Upon the original coronation of “Golden,” HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — became the first female group associated with Korean pop to top the Hot 100. The act also became the first all-woman collective of three or more members to reign in 24 years, since Destiny’s Child with “Bootylicious” for two weeks in August 2001.
Vocal range of the lead singer, combined with the album being a musical storyline with a subtext the listener can follow along with like Green Day's "American Idiot". It creates something rather unique that has been lacking in modern music much like how uniqueness has been missing in modern cinema. The combination of the complex symphonic orchestra back track that is necessary in movie music to help build narrative tension really shines too. Most pop songs don't bother with that because it costs too much and is difficult to replicate in tour performances.
Will add that this seems eye rolling to us older people, but the Alphas and Zoomie Zooms have grown up in the dark age. The idea that pop music can be more then an autotuned hell scape of simple chords and rap "lyrics" is alien, so something more classical lands hard.
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