Tame Impala achieves first Top 10 hit amid growing pop chart presence

1:49 PM EDT on May 11, 2026

Behind the scenes, millennial psych rock overlord Kevin Parker has been a factor on the pop charts for years via work with artists like Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Dua Lipa. Lately, the man otherwise known as Tame Impala has been enjoying unprecedented pop-chart success of his own.

Tame Impala broke through into a new level of mainstream visibility last fall with " Dracula ," the "Thriller"-ish single from his dance-oriented Deadbeat album that seems destined to be a staple of Halloween playlists for decades. Upon its debut, "Dracula" became Tame Impala's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 . It has since entered into the Top 40 radio slipstream and become a real-deal hit. (Hearing Tame Impala pop up in the car with my kids on the way to Wendy's was surreal.) And now, with a crucial K-pop assist, "Dracula" has become Tame Impala's first top 10 hit.

The original version of "Dracula" topped out at #25. But a remix that recasts the song as a duet between Parker and Jennie from Blackpink has surged even higher. "Dracula (Jennie Remix)" had been up as high as #15. This week, it climbs from #18 to #10. That makes it the highest-charting song Parker has ever worked on, surpassing the #11 peak of Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” in 2023, Billboard reports .

"Dracula" is now Jennie's highest-charting song ever in the US too. Previously, she reached #55 as a solo artist with "One Of The Girls," a collab with the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp from The Idol . Even with Blackpink, she never got this high; the Selena Gomez collab "Ice Cream" topped out at #13.

We're focusing on Tame Impala here because this is an indie-focused music blog and he emerged from our home turf. But there's an even bigger story on this week's Hot 100. Ella Langley, the pop-country star whose "Choosin' Texas" has been the country's #1 song for most of the past two months, now has #1 and #2 locked down. "Choosin' Texas" remains at #1 for a ninth nonconsecutive week, and now "Be Her" has risen to #2.

Langley is the 27th artist to monopolize the top two spots on the chart and "the first woman known for primarily recording country music" to do it. (That's especially precise wording because of the Taylor Swift of it all.) Here is Billboard 's breakdown of which artists have held down the 1-2 before, and for how many weeks:

10 weeks: The Beatles 8 weeks: OutKast 7 weeks: Drake 6 weeks: Justin Bieber, T.I. 5 weeks: Ashanti, Iggy Azalea, Bee Gees, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams 4 weeks: The Black Eyed Peas, Diddy, Nelly 3 weeks: 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Kendrick Lamar, Usher 2 weeks: Akon, DaBaby 1 week: Bad Bunny, Mariah Carey, Future, Ariana Grande, Ella Langley, Metro Boomin, Morgan Wallen, The Weeknd

Furthermore, Langley has a third song in the top 10, as her new Morgan Wallen duet "I Can’t Love You Anymore" sits at #8. Remarkably, Olivia Dean having two songs in the top 10 isn't close to being the biggest chart story this week. "Man I Need," her #2-peaking mega-hit that seems like it will never quite get over the hump to hit #1, is at #4 this week, while "So Easy (To Fall In Love)" holds at #6. It's a magnification of an ongoing Hot 100 phenomenon in which Langley's success has overshadowed Dean's.

The rest of the top 10: Olivia Rodrigo's "Drop Dead" at #3, Bruno Mars' "I Just Might" at #5, Alex Warren's "Ordinary" at #7, and Kehlani's "Folded" at #9.

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