Fictional K-pop bands beat BTS and Blackpink in US charts

A hugely fashionable K-pop philharmonic animation has seen songs by its fictional bands apical US euphony charts, beating real-life K-pop groups.

KPop Demon Hunters is presently the astir streamed movie connected Netflix globally, clocking up much than 33 cardinal views successful conscionable 2 weeks.

On Friday the opus Your Idol by a lad set successful the film, Saja Boys, topped the US Spotify chart. This makes them the highest charting antheral K-pop radical successful US Spotify past - surpassing kings of K-pop BTS.

Golden, a way by the film's fictional miss radical Huntr/x, deed fig 2 connected the chart, surpassing Blackpink arsenic the highest-charting pistillate K-pop group.

The film's soundtrack changeable into the apical 10 of the Billboard 200 successful the US, making it the highest debut for a soundtrack truthful acold this year.

Golden is being released arsenic an authoritative azygous by Republic Records, and Netflix is submitting it for awards consideration, according to Variety.

KPop Demon Hunters follows the adventures of superstar set Huntr/x.

The 3 members of the all-female radical - Rumi, Mira, and Zoey - are secretly "badass demon hunters" who support their legions of fans from supernatural dangers.

During Huntr/x concerts, their euphony is utilized to support the quality satellite from the forces of darkness.

But rival set the Saja Boys, who are demons successful disguise, are their arch enemies.

Jinu, Abbs, Romance, Baby, and Mystery person been sent by demon king Gwi-ma to bargain the souls of Huntr/x's fans.

KPop Demon Hunters, which was produced by Sony Pictures Animation, was directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans and was based connected a communicative by Ms Kang.

Its occurrence should possibly not beryllium excessively astonishing arsenic apical producers including Teddy Park, who has worked with Blackpink, and BTS collaborator Lindgren were portion of the squad that created the album.

The popularity of KPop Demon Hunters comes arsenic South Korean mega-stars BTS are acceptable to marque their highly-anticipated comeback.

The seven-strong radical announced this week that it volition caput to the US this period to commencement moving connected caller music.

The set is owed to merchandise a caller medium and spell connected circuit adjacent twelvemonth aft each of its members completed their mandatory subject service.

Meanwhile, Blackpink is acceptable to commencement its archetypal all-stadium satellite circuit connected 5 July.

The band, which has not released an medium unneurotic since 2022's Born Pink, is owed to uncover a caller opus astatine the commencement of the Deadline World Tour.