Steve's Lava Chicken From A Minecraft Movie the Shortest Song Ever to Debut on UK's Official Chart

If you’re among the galore who person ventured into a cinema precocious to ticker A Minecraft Movie, you’ll retrieve Jack Black’s abbreviated but saccharine opus celebrating the lava chickenhearted infinitesimal astir halfway done the film.

Black, who plays Steve, sings a opus called Lava Chicken arsenic Jason Momoa and co ticker a chickenhearted navigator from falling lava. It’s conscionable 34 seconds long, but that hasn’t stopped it from going viral crossed societal media.

And now, Steve’s Lava Chicken has debuted astatine No. 21 connected the UK’s authoritative chart, becoming the shortest opus ever to chart. "Streaming + virality are reshaping hits,” ERA, the UK’s integer amusement and retail association, said.

Black is nary alien to viral video crippled songs. Bowser's 95-second agelong romanticist ode to Princess Peach successful The Super Mario Bros. Movie, aptly named "Peaches" (sung and co-written by Jack Black), made the Billboard Hot 100. It was the archetypal opus successful Black's solo vocation to onshore connected the list. He antecedently debuted astatine No. 78 with the 2006 opus "The Pick of Destiny" arsenic a subordinate of Tenacious D.

Other abbreviated songs to illustration see 2007 Simpsons Movie opus Spider Pig (64 seconds) and Liam Lynch’s 2002 punk deed United States of Whatever (86 seconds).

Lava Chicken isn’t the lone happening from A Minecraft Movie to spell viral. Clips of overly enthusiastic cinemagoers dispersed similar wildfire crossed the likes of TikTok, with immoderate bringing successful unrecorded chickens to screenings of the film.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected A Minecraft Movie, including however the Minecraft movie squad had a backstage server they played on. A Minecraft Movie has officially surpassed $700 cardinal astatine the worldwide container office, and is connected people to beryllium the highest-grossing video crippled movie of each time.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].