'Golden' tops Billboard Hot 100 for 3rd week

"Golden," a track from the animated U.S. film "KPop Demon Hunters," has topped the Billboard's Hot 100 chart for a third week. Billboard said Tuesday (U.S. time) in a preview of its upcoming main singles chart that "Golden" retained its No. 1 position this week, keeping Alex Warren's "Ordinary" at No. 2 for the second week in a row. Earlier, Stray Kids' "Karma" took the top spot on the Billboard 200 main albums chart. With "Golden" holding onto No. 1 on the Hot 100 as well, the K-pop genre now dominates both the singles and albums charts this week. It marks the first time in about five years since December 2020, when BTS simultaneously topped the two charts with its album "Be" and its lead track "Life Goes On," that the genre has simultaneously dominated the two charts. The Hot 100 ranks the most popular songs in the United States across all genres, based on streaming, radio airplay and sales data. "Golden" earned 35.3 million streams (up 4 percent), 19.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 21 percent) and 9,000 copies sold (up 11 percent) in the U.S. from Aug. 22-28. "Golden" iWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times