{"id":347314,"date":"2026-03-19T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:20","slug":"sinners-kpop-demon-hunters-soundtracks-up-after-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347314\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sinners’ & ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Soundtracks Up After Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWelcome to Billboard Pro\u2019s Trending Up<\/a> newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry\u2019s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.\u00a0
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This week: The big winners in the music categories at this year\u2019s Oscars see gains for their victorious works, while an already-minted Tame Impala hit gets new life through a viral remix with a K-pop co-star and an \u201900s dance hit goes global for a second time.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u2018Sinners\u2019 & \u2018Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 Turn Oscar Wins into Streaming and Sales Gains\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday night (March 15), Ryan Coogler\u2019s Sinners took home four Academy Awards, including a third best original score statuette for composer Ludwig G\u00f6ransson. \u201cGolden,\u201d the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>-topping Kpop Demon Hunters smash, added a best original song Oscar to its lengthy list of accolades, marking the first time a K-pop song has received such an honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo top it all off, this year\u2019s Oscars telecast featured live performances of the music from both films. While EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna (the singing voices of HUNTR\/X) brought light sticks to the Dolby Theatre, Sinners star Miles Caton led a star-studded ensemble in a reimagining of the horror film\u2019s iconic juke joint scene. Featuring additional Sinners cast members Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Buddy Guy and Jack O\u2019Connell, the \u201cI Lied to You\u201d medley also featured Sinners soundtrack contributors Brittany Howard and Alice Smith, Grammy-winning country star Shaboozey, best original song nominee Raphael Saadiq, Grammy-nominated blues rock guitarist Eric Gales, Grammy-winning blues artist Bobby Rush and history-making Black ballerina Misty Copeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to early data provided by Luminate, the Sinners compilation soundtrack collected 756,000 official on-demand U.S. streams the day after the Oscars (March 16), marking a 150% jump from the 301,000 official streams it logged the week prior (March 9). I Lied to You,\u201d which lost the best original song Oscar to \u201cGolden,\u201d earned over 154,000 official on-demand U.S. streams the day after the ceremony (March 16), up 240% from the 45,000 streams it pulled the week prior (March 9).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack received 5.1 million streams the day after the Academy Awards. The Billboard 200<\/a>-topping set also sold over 2,000 U.S. digital downloads in the same frame, good for a 282% jump in sales. \u201cGolden,\u201d the film\u2019s signature hit, collected 1.68 million official on-demand U.S. streams following Sunday night\u2019s telecast (March 16). The smash hit, which also picked up a Grammy in February, also sold over 1,6000 U.S. digital downloads, marking a whopping 608% increase in sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAwards season may finally be over, but Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters both delivered eternal hits. \u2014 KYLE DENIS\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tTame Impala and JENNIE Run to the Viral Sunlight With \u201cDracula\u201d Remix\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was an unexpected, though perhaps not altogether shocking pairing: Kevin Parker of Tame Impala<\/a>, underground hero turned late-arriving crossover pop star, joining forces with JENNIE, solo star from BLACKPINK, for a new spin on \u201cDracula,\u201d Tame\u2019s breakout 2025 smash. \u201cDracula\u201d has been on the Hot 100 for 24 weeks now, peaking at No. 30 in late 2025, with the remix giving it a new boost of streams upon its debut in early February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs is usually the case, that boost started to recede in the weeks after the remix\u2019s release. But that trend has reversed course now, thanks to the JENNIE-featuring version of \u201cDracula\u201d finding itself at the center of a new TIkTok trend \u2014\u00a0in which<\/a> lip-syncers (usually in pairs) walk towards the camera, soundtracked by the song\u2019s dark disco strut, for the section of the remix where Parker calls himself \u201cMr. Charisma\u201d and JENNIE\u2019s friends tell her to shut up and just get in the car. (JENNIE herself participated in the trend<\/a> on Mar. 9.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the tracking week ending Feb. 12 \u2014\u00a0the first period of the remix\u2019s release \u2014\u00a0\u201dDracula\u201d amassed 7.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate. After falling the next couple weeks, the song rebounded to 7.7 million streams for the week ending Mar. 5, and then 8.6 million the week ending Mar. 12. The song has since climbed back into the Hot 100\u2019s top 40, sitting at No. 37 this week \u2014\u00a0with its original No. 30 peak certainly in its sights if the song continues to sink its fangs into TikTok and streaming audiences. \u2014\u00a0ANDREW UNTERBERGER<\/p>\n

\t\tNascent Alt-Rock Outfit Temper City Makes a Streaming Splash with Debut Single\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTemper City has virtually no digital footprint, but it\u2019s already earned a rising hit. The enigmatic band has taken over TikTok relatively quickly, thanks to a snippet campaign for its \u201cSelf Aware\u201d debut single, which it released on Feb. 15 via L.A.-based indie label Thirty Knots. Notably, Thirty Knots is the same company behind Nicky Youre\u2019s \u201cSunroof,\u201d which leveraged TikTok virality into an MTV VMA-nominated Hot 100 top five hit (No. 4) in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe alt-rock outfit, which appears to be a trio according to the few performance clips posted to its official social media accounts, began posting teasers of the single on Jan. 28. The clips featured the band recording the song in the middle of the desert, with the snippet highlighting the back half of the pre-chorus and the first half of the chorus. The song quickly went viral on TikTok, thanks to its sonic similarities to 2010s indie rock bands like Cage the Elephant and The Neighbourhood, as well as its emotional lyrics. The official TikTok sound<\/a> currently boasts nearly 150,000 clips.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSelf Aware\u201d earned 128,000 official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of Feb. 13-19, which only accounts for a few days of tracking considering the song\u2019s Sunday release. That figure vaulted 201% to 388,000 official streams the following week (Feb. 20-26), only to rise a further 118% to 849,000 official streams the week after that (Feb. 27-March 5). By March 6-12, \u201cSelf Aware\u201d pulled over 1.12 million official weekly streams, marking a 32% jump. Over the past three weeks, \u201cSelf Aware\u201d has exploded an impressive 770% in streaming activity \u2014 and that growth is poised to continue should TikTok (and social media at large) continue its love affair with Temper City\u2019s debut single. \u2014 KD\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\u201800s European Dance Hit \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d Revived by New Australian Remix\t<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, not that \u201cJust the Way You Are.\u201d And no, not THAT one either. The \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d currently going viral in the U.S. has nothing to do with either Billy Joel\u2019s or Bruno Mars\u2019 radio-conquering, Grammy-winning, wedding-soundtracking megaballads of the same name. Rather, this one comes from Italian house outfit Milky, whose euphoric, Go-Betweens-sampling \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d was a Dance Radio Airplay-topping hit in the U.S. and a top 10 hit in the U.K. back in 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song was reintroduced to global audiences in the mid-2020s thanks to interest in a new remix from Australian DJ\/producer Mall Grab, which helped the original also catch fire on TikTok. Ultimately, the dual popularity of the two version sent the song back onto charts around the world \u2014\u00a0including in the U.K., where it got all the way back to No. 11 on the Official Singles Chart earlier this March, and in Australia, where it beat its original peak of No. 47 by getting to No. 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNow the song is starting to take off on U.S. shores as well. With help from influential TikTokers like NBA rising star Jared McCain \u2014\u00a0who has used both the original<\/a> and the remix<\/a> in multiple videos \u2014\u00a0the song began to cross over to stateside streaming success. After amassing under 50,000 official on-demand U.S. streams for the week ending Jan. 1, the song is up to over 2.7 million streams for the week ending March 12, according to Luminate. It reaches a new peak of No. 7 on Billboard\u2019s Hot Dance Songs<\/a> chart this week, and if its growth continues, it could soon be on the verge of its first-ever appearance on the Hot 100. \u2013 AU<\/p>\n


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