Where Does ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Rank Among Soundtracks With Most Weeks in Billboard 200 Top 10?

KPop Demon Hunters this week becomes the first soundtrack to spend its first 36 weeks on the Billboard 200 inside the top 10 since Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo charts in August 1963. It beats the mark set by Whitney Houston ’s The Bodyguard soundtrack, which spent its first 32 weeks in the top 10 in 1992-93. (The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956 but split into mono and stereo LP charts from 1959-63.) Both albums owed their longevity near the top of the Billboard 200 to megahit, Grammy-winning singles.

Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” from The Bodyguard topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a then record 14 weeks and won two Grammys – record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female. HUNTR/X ’s “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters topped the Hot 100 for eight weeks and won a Grammy for best song written for visual media.

Four other soundtracks since 1963 spent their first 20 or more weeks on the chart inside the top 10: Lady Gaga &...