Summary
A Minecraft Moviehas been a bigger box office success than anyone could have imagined, the $818 million it has raked in at the box office comfortably making it the second highest-grossing video game movie ever. Not content with dominating the movie world alone, the hit adaptation is also coming for the music world.
Even if you haven’t seen A Minecraft Movie or the countless memes being spun from it, you will have likely assumed Jack Black, who plays Steve, can’t help from breaking out into song on more than one occasion. The most notable of those occasions is Steve’s Lava Chicken, a song that sounds like an off-the-cuff riff about using lava to cook chicken.
One month on from A Minecraft Movie hitting theaters, it seems a combination of kids nagging their parents to put Steve’s Lava Chicken on in the car and the earworm prompting others to search for it on streaming services has paid off.As revealed by Billboard, Steve’s Lava Chicken has entered the Billboard 100, debuting at number 78. Not only that, butthe 34-second track has set a new world record for being the shortest song ever to chart on the Billboard 100.
Steve’s Lava Chicken Is Rocketing Up The Charts
Well, It’s Charting. We’ll See If It Rockets.
According to Variety,Steve’s Lava Chicken was streamed seven million times between April 18 and April 24. My guess is it being 34 seconds likely helped that. Those aforementioned kids in the back of cars nationwide impatiently yelling “Again!” every 34 seconds and tired parents reluctantly caving, fearing that having the audacity to play anything else might lead to a Chicken Jockey-inspired reaction.
Steve’s Lava Chicken has taken the record for shortest song to chart on the Billboard 100 from Kid Cudi’s Beautiful Trip. The 37-second track has held the record for almost five years. The only other song that runs for less than a minute to ever make it onto the Billboard 100 is Piko-Taro’s PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen).
Black’s latest video game movie song still has some work to do if it wants to surpass the far superior Peaches. Black sang Peaches as Bowser inThe Super Mario Bros. Movieand the song topped out at number 56 on the Billboard 100. If you want Steve’s Lava Chicken to break that record, you’ll need to listen to it a few more million times. No pressure.
On the movie front, Minecraft is still bringing in money. It wasone of four films to gross over $20 million at the domestic box office last weekend, even though it’s been out for four weeks. It’s the first time four movies have made that much in the same weekend since Barbie and Oppenheimer were going head-to-head.
