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With HUNTR/X’s “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters a strong contender to win an Academy Award on Sunday (March 15), we may soon see an addition to our list of songs that have both topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Oscar for best original song. The last song to join the list was “Shallow” from A Star Is Born seven years ago.

“Golden” topped the Hot 100 for eight nonconsecutive weeks last year. The exuberant smash is competing for best original song with “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless; “I Lied to You” from Sinners; “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!; and “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams.

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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 17 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 17 songs that have doubled up atop the Hot 100 and at the Oscars. The year shown is the year of the Oscar ceremony. This list will be updated if “Golden” wins on Oscar Sunday.

Additional research by Xander Zellner.


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