Discuss an earworm.
Jack Black broke a Billboard Sizzling 100 document this week when his track from “A Minecraft Movie,” known as “Steve’s Lava Chicken,” reached No. 78 on the favored singles chart.
The catchy tune, which clocks in at simply 34 seconds, is formally the shortest track to make the Billboard Sizzling 100 checklist within the chart’s 67-year historical past.
With chickens squawking and lava scorching within the background, Black, 55, sings about what you get when the 2 very various things are mixed: Steve’s Lava Hen.
“La-la-la-lava, ch-ch-ch-chicken/Steve’s Lava Chicken, yeah, it’s tasty as hell/Ooh, mamacita, now you’re ringing the bell,” the “School of Rock” actor croons. “Crispy and juicy, now you’re having a snack/Oh, super spicy, it’s a lava attack.”
Earlier than “Steve’s Lava Chicken,” the shortest track to make the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart was Child Cudi’s 37-second monitor “Beautiful Trip” again in 2020. It reached No. 100 on the time.
However “Steve’s Lava Chicken” hitting No. 78 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart for the week ending Could 3 just isn’t the one document “A Minecraft Movie” has helped Black break.
With a whopping $157 million on the home field workplace in its first weekend, “A Minecraft Movie” shattered the $146.3 million home opening of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” in 2023, which was the earlier opening document for a video game-based film.
“A Minecraft Movie” has additionally grossed a powerful $816 million globally as of April 27, in response to Selection, making the flick the largest film but of 2025.
Coincidentally, Black stars in each “A Minecraft Movie” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
The “Steve’s Lava Chicken” milestone comes after “A Minecraft Movie” made headlines for a really totally different cause.
Shortly after the movie was launched on April 4, swarms of teenage boys started going to theaters to throw popcorn buckets, spill soda, soar on seats and get away into fights throughout a scene involving a child zombie driving a hen.
The “chicken jockey” pattern turned so chaotic that a number of film theaters banned minors from seeing the PG adventure-action flick and not using a dad or mum or grownup guardian current.
In accordance with one New Jersey theater, a bunch of boys “engaged in completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism” throughout one screening of “A Minecraft Movie.”
“We also received multiple complaints from other moviegoers who were trying to enjoy the film with their families,” the theater added in a Fb submit on the time.
Some habits from Gen Alpha and Gen Z moviegoers was even likened to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
“I haven’t been to a movie with an audience this hyped since I saw ‘Magic Mike’ on opening night at the old Regal theater in Brooklyn Heights,” a 50-year-old resident from Mamaroneck, New York, who went together with his 8- and 11-year-old sons to a exhibiting, solely instructed The Put up.
“My screening was pure pandemonium, in a fun way,” he added. “It reminded me of going to see ‘Rocky Horror.’”
“Teens, tweens and below were hooting and hollering from the moment the lights went down to play trailers. In between trailers, one kid — probably 13 or 14 — announced to the theater, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, if you see my popcorn flying through the air, do not be alarmed.’”
The craze turned so out of hand that Black himself was pressured to go to a Los Angeles cinema to warning the youngsters in attendance in opposition to any wild and unruly habits.
“For today’s presentation of ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ please, no throwing popcorn, and also no lapis lazuli, and absolutely no Chicken Jockey!” the “High Fidelity” actor forewarned throughout a screening earlier this month.
In addition to Black, “A Minecraft Movie” stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, Sebastian Eugene Hansen and Danielle Brooks.
