{"id":657943,"date":"2026-10-26T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:34:14","slug":"king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-earns-1st-hot-100-hit-thanks-to-gta-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657943\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Earns 1st Hot 100 Hit Thanks to ‘GTA 6’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard scores its first career entry on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> thanks to the band\u2019s guest appearance on Justice\u2019s \u201cFlower in a Hurricane,\u201d which also features Tame Impala and SZA.<\/p>\n

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\n\tReleased Oct. 15 via Take-Two Interactive Software\/Atlantic\/Because\/Virgin, the song debuts at No. 62 on the Oct. 31-dated chart with 4.6 million U.S. official streams, 1 million in radio airplay audience impressions and 1,000 sold in the U.S. in the Oct. 16-22 tracking week, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFlower in a Hurricane\u201d is the ninth release so far from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the video game\u2019s 34-song soundtrack, due Nov. 19. The song, which soundtracks the entirety of the game\u2019s launch trailer (unlike other previews that used several songs), arrived alongside the news that Justice will compose the game\u2019s score<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the third song from the soundtrack to reach the Hot 100, following Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Thing You Need\u201d (No. 9 peak) and Travis Scott\u2019s \u201cRhyno\u201d (No. 84), both of which debuted on the Oct. 3-dated chart. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records have also released songs from the set by Cardi B, Fuerza Regida and Rauw Alejandro, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, which formed in Melbourne in 2010, is known for its prolific output and genre-hopping style. The band has released 28 studio albums, exploring everything from psychedelic rock, prog rock and heavy metal to jazz fusion, techno and electronic. It released five albums in 2022 alone.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group\u2019s latest album, August\u2019s Alien Metal, is its furthest venture yet into dance<\/a> music. The band swapped guitars for a homemade Eurorack modular synth, nicknamed \u201cNathan,\u201d that all six members play at once. \u201cThere are certain parallels with a lot of the heavy metal stuff we\u2019ve done to techno, and to some of the more krautrock-ish, hypnotic, longer stuff that we\u2019ve done,\u201d the band\u2019s Stu Mackenzie told Billboard <\/a>in August. \u201cMaybe there is a thread with King Gizz and dance music that isn\u2019t so far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore reaching the Hot 100, the act charted six albums on the Billboard 200<\/a>: Flying Microtonal Banana (No. 170 peak in 2017); Murder of the Universe (No. 106, 2017); Infest the Rats\u2019 Nest (No. 64, 2019); PetroDragonic Apocalypse (No. 85, 2023); Flight b741 (No. 118, 2024); and Phantom Island (No. 85, 2025). The band has found particular success on Billboard\u2019s album sales charts. It has logged 25 titles on Top Album Sales, five of which reached the top 10, and 21 on Vinyl Albums, including 12 top 10s and four No. 1s.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFlower in a Hurricane\u201d also earns Justice its second Hot 100 entry, following the duo\u2019s guest appearance on The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cWake Me Up\u201d (No. 45 peak, 2025). Tame Impala adds its fourth, following \u201cDracula\u201d (No. 5 peak), \u201cLoser\u201d (No. 18) and \u201cMy Old Ways\u201d (No. 56), all in 2025-26. SZA tallies her 62nd.<\/p>\n

\n\tJustice and Tame Impala previously teamed up on \u201cOne Night\/All Night\u201d and \u201cNeverender,\u201d both from Justice\u2019s 2024 album Hyperdrama, which spent a week at No. 1 on the Top Dance Albums chart and earned a Grammy nomination for best dance\/electronic album. \u201cNeverender\u201d won the Grammy for best dance\/electronic recording.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFlower in a Hurricane\u201d (whose opening riff is reminiscent of Dire Straits\u2019 1985 Hot 100 No. 1 \u201cMoney for Nothing\u201d) also arrives on other Billboard charts, debuting at No. 2 on Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs, No. 13 on Hot Alternative Songs and No. 21 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. It\u2019s off to a quick start at alternative radio, too, opening at No. 39 on Alternative Airplay, marking King Gizzard\u2019s first radio chart hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard scores its first career entry on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2645,873,146,21895,85,46,409,1098,20600],"class_list":["post-657943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-chart-beat","tag-dance","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-dance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}