After 58 Weeks, Jennie and Tame Impala’s “Dracula” Just Made Billboard History at No. 3
Toledo, this one took its sweet time — and then it made history. Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” has climbed from No. 5 to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Nov. 14, 2026, a brand-new peak for the song. Billboard announced the new peak on Mon. Nov. 9, 2026, and if you were with us when “Dracula” first cracked the Top 5, you already know this one has been building for a very, very long time.
Fifty-eight weeks. That is how long “Dracula” has been on the Hot 100 to reach the Top 3 — the longest climb to the Hot 100 Top 3 in history. The previous record was 51 weeks, held by Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves.” In an era when songs usually rocket up the chart or disappear, “Dracula” did the opposite: it refused to go away, week after week, until the chart had no choice but to make room at the top.
The No. 3 peak also ties Rosé’s “APT.” (with Bruno Mars, Feb. 2025) as the highest Hot 100 placement ever by a female K-pop solo artist. That means Jennie and Rosé are now tied as BLACKPINK’s highest-charting solo women — a one-two punch from the same group that keeps rewriting what K-pop soloists can do on the American chart.
The numbers behind the jump are loud. In the tracking period of Oct. 30–Nov. 5, 2026, “Dracula” collected 9.4 million U.S. streams — up 31% week over week — and 62.6 million in radio audience, holding No. 1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart for an eighth week. Halloween did the rest: the song recorded 2.8 million official U.S. on-demand streams on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2026 alone, according to SportsChosun, citing Luminate. A vampire song on Halloween? Of course it ate.
Staying power is the whole story here. The song has now spent 23 weeks inside the Hot 100 Top 10 — the longest Top 10 stay for any Asian/K-pop act. Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) first released “Dracula” on Sept. 26, 2025, ahead of the album Deadbeat (Oct. 2025). The Jennie remix arrived Feb. 6, 2026, with an official lyric video, and it became the first Hot 100 Top 10 entry for both artists. The previous week, on the chart dated Nov. 7, 2026, the song sat at No. 5, up from No. 8 — so this No. 3 is a genuine new peak, not a rebound.
Jennie even joined Tame Impala on stage in Boston in July 2026 for their first live performance of the song together — a moment that turned a studio collaboration into a real shared stage. One important note on that 58-week number: it covers the song’s full chart history, including its run before the Jennie remix arrived. The February remix itself has not spent 58 weeks on the chart — the record belongs to “Dracula” as a song, in all its forms.
So, Toledo: press play, turn it up, and enjoy the moment. A song that started as a late-September album cut is now sitting at No. 3 in America, tied for the biggest K-pop solo moment a woman has ever had on the Hot 100. Slow and steady doesn’t just win the race — sometimes it makes history.
Sources: MusicTimes (Nov. 9); SportsChosun.
Photo: TV Ten (티비텐), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
