Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: This Unlikely Artist Just Broke a Big Record

An unlikely artist just broke the record for the shortest song ever to make the Hot 100. Can you guess who and what song it is? Find out here!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood. We'll hit songs tend to be shorter
than ever these days, with the average charter in twenty
twenty four punching the clock at a very efficient three
minutes forty seconds, but the newest entry trims the short
bup down to a whole other level, running one tenth
that running time only thirty four seconds long, officially a

(00:21):
Hot one hundred record, Jack Black's Steve's Lava Chicken from
the Minecraft movie just became the shortest song ever to
make the Billboard chart since it began in nineteen fifty eight,
checking in at number seventy seven, which also stands as
Jack's second song ever to chart, by the way, joining Peaches,
which oddly enough, was also from a video game adaptation

(00:43):
the Super Mario Brothers movie. For the record, Jack just
barely managed to claim the record for the shortest song
in Hot one hundred history, sneaking past Kid Cutty's twenty
twenty track Beautiful Trip, which ran a neat and tidy
thirty seven seconds. That's direct from Hollywood.