18 Straight Weeks in the Top 10 Made Dracula a K-pop Record for Jennie
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No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, for a second week. Eighteen consecutive weeks in the top 10. That is where “Dracula”, Tame Impala’s single featuring Jennie, stands on the latest chart, and the run is now the longest consecutive top 10 stay by a K-pop artist, Korea JoongAng Daily reported on Wednesday.
The position matches the song’s peak. The run keeps extending a record Jennie took in mid-September, and it sits alongside two more firsts: a No. 1 on Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs chart and an 18-week top 10 stay in Australia. This is how the numbers add up.
The Ranking This Week
“Dracula” held at No. 5 on the Hot 100 for a second straight week. It has now spent 18 consecutive weeks inside the top 10, according to Billboard’s latest chart as reported by Korea JoongAng Daily.
The record fell in mid-September. When the song logged its 16th week in the top 10, it passed the 15-week run of BTS’s “Butter”, The Korea Times reported, becoming the longest-running top 10 song by or featuring a K-pop act. Each week since has added to that tally.
No. 5 is also the ceiling so far. The song has reached that position more than once but has not climbed higher, which makes the run a story of endurance rather than a peak. For a track that first appeared almost a year ago, 18 straight weeks without leaving the top 10 is the more unusual number.
Week-on-Week, the Last Three Charts
The last three Hot 100s show how the record was built. Billboard charts are dated for the Saturday after they are published, and each of these three placings came from a different report.
- Chart dated 19 September: No. 6 for a second straight week, and a 16th week in the top 10, passing the 15 weeks of “Butter”, according to The Korea Times.
- Chart dated 26 September: back up to No. 5, its high, in week 17, according to Billboard’s report on the Radio Songs chart for the same date.
- Chart dated 3 October: No. 5 again, and week 18, according to Korea JoongAng Daily.
The pattern is steady rather than spectacular. The song has moved between No. 5 and No. 6 while the tally of weeks keeps rising, which is exactly how long top 10 runs are built: small movements, no collapse.
How a Tame Impala Song Became a K-pop Record
The route was not direct. “Dracula” was first released as a Tame Impala solo track in October 2025. A new version featuring Jennie followed in February, went viral on short-form video platforms and began climbing the rankings, Korea JoongAng Daily reported.
The duet gave both acts their first Hot 100 top 10. Kevin Parker, the Australian musician who records as Tame Impala, wrote the song with Jennie, Sarah Aarons and Carly Gibert, and produced it alone, according to Billboard. It is released on Columbia Records.
Aarons has described a long writing process. As she told Billboard last year, the song went through many iterations, and its final shape came when Parker combined the “run from the sun like Dracula” line from one idea with a chorus they had worked on separately a couple of years earlier.
The Radio Tally Behind the Run
Streaming is only one part of the Hot 100 formula. Radio airplay is another, and “Dracula” now leads that format. It rose one place to No. 1 on Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs chart dated 26 September, drawing 62.6 million in airplay audience from 11 to 17 September, according to Luminate data cited by Billboard.
It is the first Radio Songs No. 1 for both acts. Parker had previously reached the chart’s top 10 as a co-writer and co-producer of Dua Lipa’s “Houdini”, which peaked at No. 7 in 2024. Jennie’s previous Radio Songs entry was “One of the Girls” with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, which reached No. 48 the same year. Blackpink, the group Jennie belongs to, has not yet appeared on the ranking.
The spread across formats is wide. The song leads Adult Pop Airplay for a ninth week, after seven weeks at No. 1 on Pop Airplay and two on Alternative Airplay. It has reached No. 2 on Adult Alternative Airplay and the top 15 on Adult Contemporary. Dork called it “an unusually broad route for a track still happily committed to vampire imagery”.
Three Genre Charts, One Song
The genre rankings show the same crossover. “Dracula” has led Billboard’s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for 37 weeks and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs for 19.
Both totals matter for different reasons. Thirty-seven weeks at the top of the dance and electronic ranking covers most of the song’s life since the solo release. Nineteen weeks at the top of the rock and alternative ranking reflects Tame Impala’s history as a psychedelic rock act.
The list-led reading is simple. The song sits at the top of three different rankings, dance, rock and all-format radio, each built from a different audience, and the Hot 100 position draws on all of them.
Australia Matched the Run, Then Handed Out Eight Nominations
The home market tells a matching story. According to ARIA, “Dracula” has spent 18 weeks in the top 10 of the ARIA Singles Chart, peaking at No. 4. ARIA called it the biggest hit of Parker’s 20-year career and his highest-charting single ever.
The song comes from Deadbeat, Tame Impala’s fifth studio album. In the United States and in Australia, the same single has now spent the same number of weeks inside the top 10, with a slightly higher peak at home, at No. 4 against No. 5 on the Hot 100.
The awards season is following the charts. Tame Impala and Genesis Owusu lead the 2026 ARIA Awards nominations with eight each, ARIA announced on 24 September, with Ecca Vandal next on seven.
Genesis Owusu’s eight follow his third album, REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, which entered the ARIA Albums Chart at No. 3 and reached No. 1 on the Australian Albums and Vinyl Albums charts, according to ARIA. The ceremony marks the awards’ 40th anniversary, with winners across 29 categories, and it will be streamed on Paramount+ and broadcast on 10.
Tame Impala’s eight are Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Dance/Electronic Release, Best Alternative Release and Song of the Year, plus Best Engineered Release and Best Produced Release for Parker himself. Song of the Year is one of four categories decided by public vote, with voting open on Spotify and the ARIA website until 9 November. The winners are announced on Wednesday 18 November at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.
One more detail ties the nominations to this year’s run. Best Alternative Release returns for the first time since 2016, and Deadbeat is among its nominees, alongside Ecca Vandal, Gang Of Youths, Genesis Owusu and Mec Mag. A song that tops a rock and alternative chart in the United States is now competing for an alternative award at home.
Where the Rest of K-pop Sits on the Charts
Elsewhere on the same week’s charts, Katseye’s “Animal” ranked No. 30 on the Hot 100, down two places, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. On the Billboard 200, BTS’s fifth studio album Arirang placed No. 40, the soundtrack to the Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters No. 44, and Evan, a former member of Enhypen, entered at No. 49 with his debut EP Death of Me.
Those positions put the “Dracula” run in context. The K-pop record belongs to a collaboration between an Australian act and a Korean star, released on Columbia Records, and it shows how far a song can travel when it crosses markets. bestmusic.news tracked the same widening of US listening when it reported how English fell to 87.1% of US streams, a historic low.
The next test is whether “Dracula” can reach a 19th week in the top 10, and whether the ARIA ceremony on 18 November adds trophies to the tally. For now, the figure that defines the song is 18: weeks in the US top 10, weeks in the Australian top 10, and a K-pop record that grows with each new chart.
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