The soundtrack to Netflix’s animated hit KPop Demon Hunters has made history, climbing to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time. After spending seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2, the album finally rises to No. 1 on this week’s chart, earning 128,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. following the release of its deluxe edition. This marks the project’s strongest sales week yet.
Notably, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack has already delivered four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles — the first soundtrack to do so in nearly 30 years. Among them is “Golden” by HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI), which topped the Hot 100 for four weeks.
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As reported by Billboard, KPop Demon Hunters is also the seventh animated film soundtrack in history to hit No. 1, joining Encanto, Frozen, Frozen II, Curious George, Pocahontas, and The Lion King.
Elsewhere on the chart, Justin Bieber returns to the top five with Swag, boosted by the release of Swag II. The album jumps 13 spots to No. 4 with 80,000 units.
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