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Super spicy! Jack Black’s Minecraft song Steve’s Lava Chicken becomes shortest ever UK Top 40 hit
At 34 seconds, the spectacularly silly song from A Minecraft Movie beats the previous record by two seconds
Actor and musician Jack Black has made UK chart history, with the shortest ever song to reach the Top 40: his novelty track Steve’s Lava Chicken is just 34 seconds long. Steve’s Lava Chicken is Black’s highest UK chart position yet, beating both his track Pod with duo Tenacious D (No 24 in 2006) and another song from a video game-film tie-in: Peaches, his power ballad performed as nefarious pixellated reptile Bowser in 2023’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, which reached No 28. Black made a video message to mark the success of Steve’s Lava Chicken, saying: “I want to send big love to all the Minecraft fans for getting us up there – it’s insane!
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