After a dubbing in the last season of Netflix Cobra Kai, Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” takes first place in Billboard‘s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for July 2024.
The Top TV Songs chart rankings are based on song and show data from Tunefind and are created using a formula that combines that data with sales and streaming information collected by Luminate during the corresponding period in July 2024.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper’s breakthrough hit (it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1984), was featured in the third episode of the sixth season of the Netflix series, the first five episodes of which aired on July 18, with the next five to follow in November.
According to Luminate, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” had 13.7 million official on-demand streams in the US and 2,000 downloads as of July 2024.
The song is the only contribution from Cobra Kai on the July 2024 list, followed by a number of titles from Amazon Prime Videos The boys and Peacock’s US version of Love Islandwhich take up the rest of the 10-position list.
Music from the fourth season of The boys – specifically episodes six, seven and eight, which aired between July 4 and 18 – rank second through seventh and tenth, led by Christopher Cross’s “Sailing” in second place.
“Sailing”, a No. 1 hit for Cross on the Hot 100 in August 1980, was dubbed in the sixth episode of the series, as was the No. 3 hit, “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty (No. 2 on the Hot 100 in June 1978).
“Sailing” had 6.5 million streams and 2,000 downloads as of July 2024, while “Baker Street” contributed 3.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
What Love Islandwhose sixth season premiered in June and ran until July, the most successful track was “The Mountain Is You” by Chance Pena at number 8 after its appearance in episode 22 (July 5) with 1.4 million streams.
The full top 10 can be found below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
1. “Girls just want to have fun,” Cyndi Lauper, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
2. “Sailing”, Christopher Cross, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
3. “Baker Street”, Gerry Rafferty, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
4. “Heart-shaped box”, Nirvana, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
5. “Rosanna”, Toto, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
6. “Steal My Sunshine,” Len, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
7. “Butterfly,” Crazy Town, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
8. “You are the mountain”, Chance Pena, Love Island (Peacock)
9. “Sex and Candy”, trade unions, Love Island (Peacock)
10. “You can do magic”, America, The boys (Amazon Prime Video)
