Jack Black's 'Steve's Lava Chicken' Song From a Minecraft Movie Officially Hits the Billboard 100 Charts — the Shortest Ever

It’s a Minecraft world, folks — we’re conscionable singing successful it. A Minecraft Movie continues to deed large milestones a period aft debuting successful theaters and catapulting its mode toward becoming the highest-grossing video crippled movie ever astatine the planetary container office. Now, the movie’s “Steve's Lava Chicken” song, sung by prima Jack Black himself, has made its mode to the coveted Billboard Hot 100 Chart successful the United States. Yeah, you work that right.

At conscionable 34 seconds, the opus — which boasts heavy lyrics similar “la-la-la-lava ch-ch-ch-chicken” — has go the shortest ever to deed the Hot 100. It debuts connected the illustration dated May 3, 2025 and comes successful astatine No. 78, which is beauteous coagulated for a sub-35 2nd song. Additionally, the track, which was written by Black and the film’s manager Jared Hess, has deed No. 10 connected the Hot Rock Songs Chart.

Interestingly enough, this isn’t adjacent the archetypal illustration the opus has made it onto. Earlier this month, the opus debuted astatine No. 21 connected the UK’s authoritative illustration — truthful intelligibly Black’s solo is truly connecting with the movie’s audience. Plus, this isn’t Black’s archetypal clip charting for a movie either. He deed No. 58 for “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie backmost successful 2023 arsenic well.

A Minecraft Movie screenings person been beauteous rowdy affairs truthful far, but it seems arsenic though fans volition person an accidental to meme and shriek their mode done the “Chicken Lava” opus and the remainder of the movie arsenic the studios are debuting circumstantial screenings meant for assemblage interaction.

"Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures invitation fans backmost to the theatre to acquisition A Minecraft Movie unneurotic successful a full caller way! You cognize the moments. You cognize the lines. You emotion the songs,” stated the announcement for the acceptable of Block Party Edition screenings that volition instrumentality spot connected May 2 crossed the United States and prime planetary locations. “Now it's clip to get loose, laughter retired large and loop retired those lyrics similar a existent diamond-tier fan.”

We’ve got plentifulness much connected A Minecraft Movie, including however the Minecraft movie squad had a backstage server they played on.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.