Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” featuring Perfume Genius, sports a big boost in streams and sales after being featured in the new film The Gorge, driving it to a No. 1 debut on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for February.
Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of February. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding three months.
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World” was originally released on Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2022 album Cool It Down — the rockers’ first full-length record since 2013’s Mosquito — as its lead single.
After its synch in The Gorge — which was released in theaters on Feb. 14 via Apple TV+ and stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver — “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” accumulated 2.4 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 5,000 downloads in February in addition to its Tunefind activity, according to Luminate.
As a result of its boost in metrics, the song even entered Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart dated March 1 at No. 1, earning 3,000 downloads in the March 14-20 tracking week alone.
In all, The Gorge appears on the 10-position Top Movie Songs chart five times, the movie’s next-highest entry being Devlin and Ed Sheeran’s rendition of “(All Along the) Watchtower” at No. 4 (85,000 streams).
“I Always Wanted a Brother,” from Mufasa: The Lion King, ranks at No. 2 in its final month of eligibility, as the movie was released in December 2024. The song jumps to No. 2, after appearing at No. 8 on the January tally, via 16.5 million streams and 1,000 downloads in February.
Read on for the full chart, which also features music from Heart Eyes, Back in Action, Captain America: Brave New World and You’re Cordially Invited.
Rank, Song, Artist, Movie
- “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs feat. Perfume Genius, The Gorge
- “I Always Wanted a Brother,” Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Aaron Pierre & Kelvin Harrison Jr., Mufasa: The Lion King
- “Are You In Love?,” Spyder Sympson, Heart Eyes
- “(All Along the) Watchtower,” Devlin & Ed Sheeran, The Gorge
- “Blitzkrieg Bop,” Ramones, The Gorge
- “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” Twisted Sister, The Gorge
- “Doo Wop (That Thing),” Lauryn Hill, Back In Action
- “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles),” The Dead Weather, The Gorge
- “i,” Kendrick Lamar, Captain America: Brave New World
- “Cake By the Ocean,” DNCE, You’re Cordially Invited