“Golden” is one of only three Oscar-winning songs to log eight or more weeks atop the Hot 100.
From left: REI AMI, EJAE, and AUDREY NUNA perform during the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026, in Hollywood.
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With its victory at the 98th Oscars on Sunday (March 15), HUNTR/X’s “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters has joined our list of songs that have both topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Oscar for best original song. It’s the first song to join the list since “Shallow” from A Star Is Born seven years ago.
“Golden” topped the Hot 100 for eight nonconsecutive weeks last year. Only other two Oscar-winning songs logged eight or more weeks on top. Debby Boone’s cover version of “You Light Up My Life” from the film of the same name topped the Hot 100 for a then-record 10 weeks in 1977. Eminem’s original recording of “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile was on top for 12 weeks in 2002-03.
The Motion Picture Academy first awarded best original song in 1935. Billboard launched the Hot 100 in 1958. In the chart’s nearly 68-year history, only 18 songs have hit No. 1 and also won best original song. B.J. Thomas’ “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” was the first song to achieve the double distinction. The jaunty tune, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, spent four weeks at No. 1 in January 1970 before winning the Oscar that April.
Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Warnes are the only artists who have topped the Hot 100 twice with Oscar-winning songs. Burt Bacharach, Giorgio Moroder and Will Jennings are the only songwriters who have won two Oscars for songs that topped the Hot 100.
The 1970s and 1980s were a heyday for best original song winners topping the Hot 100, but the double distinction became far less common beginning in the 1990s. That decade, only two songs earned the double victory, followed by one each in the 2000s and 2010s and now one (so far) in the 2020s.
In chronological order, here are the 18 songs that have doubled up atop the Hot 100 and at the Oscars. The year shown is the year of the Oscar ceremony.
Additional research by Xander Zellner.
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B.J. Thomas, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (1970)
From the film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Credits: Music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David
Weeks at No. 1: Four, beginning Jan. 3, 1970
Performed on the Oscar telecast by: B.J. Thomas
Notes: This was both Thomas’ first No. 1 and Bacharach’s first best song winner. The award was presented by Candice Bergen, a star even then, nearly two decades before her career-capping role as Murphy Brown. Bacharach won a second Oscar on the night for best original score for a motion picture (not a musical).
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Isaac Hayes, “Theme From Shaft” (1972)
From the film: Shaft
Credits: Music & lyrics by Isaac Hayes
Weeks at No. 1: Two, beginning Nov. 20, 1971
Performed on the Oscar telecast by: Isaac Hayes
Notes: With this cool and funky smash, Hayes became the first Black songwriter to win for best original song. The award was presented by Joel Grey, co-star of the recently released Cabaret (which would win eight Oscars, including best supporting actor for Grey, the following year). Hayes received a second Oscar nod that year for best original dramatic score. This was his only No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 – in fact, his only top ten hit.
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Maureen McGovern, “The Morning After” (1973)
From the film: The Poseidon Adventure
Credits: Music & lyrics by Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha
Weeks at No. 1: Two, beginning Aug. 4, 1973
Performed on the Oscar telecast by: Connie Stevens
Notes: This ballad hadn’t even cracked the Hot 100 when the Oscars were presented on March 27, 1973. It first charted in June and reached No. 1 in August. This was McGovern’s first Hot 100 hit and the first of two Oscar winners for Kasha & Hirschhorn, both of which were written for disaster movies produced by Irwin Allen. The second, two years later, was “We May Never Love Like This Again” from The Towering Inferno.
McGovern also had a Hot 100 hit with that song, albeit a much more modest one. It peaked at No.83. Sonny & Cher, whose weekly variety show was then at its peak, presented the Oscar to “The Morning After.” Said Kasha in accepting the award: “I’m very extremely grateful and you made two people very happy in Brooklyn tonight, Rose and Irving Kasha. So I want to thank you for that.”
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Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were” (1974)
From the film: The Way We Were
Credits: Music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman
Weeks at No.1: Three beginning Feb.2 ,1974
Performed on Oscar telecast by: Peggy Lee
Notes: This instant standard was Streisand’s first No .1 hit on Hot .It reached No .1 two months before April ceremony.It was Hamlisch’s only best song winner and second for Bergmans following “The Windmills of Your Mind” from “The Thomas Crown Affair”.
Hamlisch made history as first only composer to win three Oscars in one night.In addition to this award he also won best original dramatic score for “The Way We Were” and best scoring adaptation for “The Sting”. “Marvin it’s positively obscene how many of these you have,” Marilyn Bergman teased while accepting best song award.She also paid tribute to Streisand calling her “the best singer any lyric writer could ever have singing their song.”
Streisand was nominated for best actress for her performance in “The Way We Were” but declined to perform song on telecast.Producers got Peggy Lee to sing it instead.Streisand finally sang song on Oscars in2013 during In Memoriam segment which included her friend frequent collaborator Hamlisch.She reprised song in2026 In Memoriam segment which included Robert Redford her friend co-star in “The Way We Were”.
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