Tame Impala and JENNIE track tops Pop Airplay

A Billboard staff discussion says Tame Impala, the project of Kevin Parker, has the most-played song this week on top 40 airwaves with Dracula. The article says the track tops the Pop Airplay chart dated July 11 and moves to a new No. 8 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 after JENNIE appeared on the official remix.

The article states that No. 8 is the highest placement reached by either artist. Billboard framed the result around how strange it feels to see Tame Impala, associated in the question with psychedelic guitar-rock epics from the early 2010s, as a late-2020s pop chart-topper.

Katie Bain rated the moment a 3 on a 1-10 scale. Bain said Tame Impala had been large for a long time, citing a Coachella headline slot in 2019, and added that some listeners might have assumed the act had already achieved this kind of chart result.

Eric Renner Brown answered with a 6 and referred to following Tame Impala since the 2010 debut Innerspeaker. He said Rihanna placed New Person, Same Old Mistakes on ANTI a decade ago, and argued that Parker had already crossed toward the mainstream while Tame Impala had stopped being a niche indie-rock act long ago.

Kyle Denis put the answer at about an 8, saying the evolution of Tame Impala ranked high among the surprising paths of major pop figures in the past decade. Andrew Unterberger said the answer had to be at least an 8, pointing to the contrast between Parker holding the most-played pop radio song in the country and the artist behind Apocalypse Dreams and Let It Happen.

Christine Werthman rated it a 3, maybe a 4, citing two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in 2019, four sold-out shows at Barclays in 2025 and a TikTok trend around the Dracula remix earlier this year. In the second question, the article asked whether Dracula itself put Parker over the top as a pop star, and Bain said its popularity was partly riding on Neverender, Parker’s 2024 collaboration with Justice.