Following a synch in the latest season of Netflix’s Cobra Kai, Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” claims the top spot of Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for July 2024.
Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show 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 July 2024.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper’s breakthrough hit (it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1984), was heard in the third episode of the Netflix series’ sixth season, which aired its first five episodes all together on July 18, with the next five to come in November.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” racked up 13.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads in July 2024, according to Luminate.
The song is the sole entry from Cobra Kai on the July 2024 tally; it’s followed by a slew of titles from Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys and Peacock’s U.S. version of Love Island, which take up the remainder of the 10-position list.
Music from the fourth season of The Boys — particularly episodes six, seven and eight, which aired between July 4 and 18 — take up Nos. 2-7 and 10, paced by Christopher Cross‘ “Sailing” at No. 2.
“Sailing,” a No. 1 hit for Cross on the Hot 100 in August 1980, scored a synch in the sixth episode of the series, as did the No. 3 song, Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” (No. 2 on the Hot 100 in June 1978).
“Sailing” earned 6.5 million streams and 2,000 downloads in July 2024, while “Baker Street” contributed 3.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
As for Love Island, whose sixth season premiered in June and ran through July, the top-performing track was Chance Pena’s “The Mountain Is You” at No. 8 following its appearance in episode 22 (July 5) via 1.4 million streams.
See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
1. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Cyndi Lauper, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
2. “Sailing,” Christopher Cross, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
3. “Baker Street,” Gerry Rafferty, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
4. “Heart-Shaped Box,” Nirvana, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
5. “Rosanna,” Toto, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
6. “Steal My Sunshine,” Len, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
7. “Butterfly,” Crazy Town, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
8. “The Mountain Is You,” Chance Pena, Love Island (Peacock)
9. “Sex and Candy,” Unions, Love Island (Peacock)
10. “You Can Do Magic,” America, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
