Steve's Lava Chicken

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"Steve's Lava Chicken"
Song by Jack Black
from the album A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
ReleasedMarch 28, 2025
Length
  • 0:34 (original)
  • 1:15 (extended)
Label WaterTower Music
Songwriters
Producers
Music video
"Steve's Lava Chicken" on YouTube

"Steve's Lava Chicken" is a song performed by Jack Black from the soundtrack for A Minecraft Movie (2025). It is used as a jingle for a scene where Black's character in the film, Steve, cooks a live chicken by pouring lava onto it. The song was co-written by Black and the film's director Jared Hess, and is 34 seconds long. The song broke several records—particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom—as the shortest song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart respectively. It also charted in multiple other countries. It has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and silver by the British Phonographic Industry.

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Background and release

"Steve's Lava Chicken" is used in a scene in A Minecraft Movie where Steve—a character portrayed in the film by Black—showcases a contraption he made that cooks live chickens in lava. [1] [2] The subject of the song is the cooked chicken resulting from the contraption. [3] The song itself is about 34 seconds long, [3] [4] and was co-written by Black and the film's director Jared Hess. [4]

The soundtrack for A Minecraft Movie, including "Steve's Lava Chicken", was released on March 28, 2025, through WaterTower Music. [5] A 50-second long clip from the film featuring the song, labeled by WaterTower as its official music video, was released on April 9, 2025. [6] An EP by Black, "I...Am Steve", featuring an extended version of "Steve's Lava Chicken" along with other songs from the film's soundtrack, was released on April 18, 2025. The extended version is 1 minute and 15 seconds long. [7] A remix of the "Steve's Lava Chicken" instrumental was added to Minecraft in June 2025 as a music disc, with players able to obtain the disc by killing a chicken jockey. [8]

Commercial performance

In the United States, "Steve's Lava Chicken" received over 2.5 million streams on the week of the film's release, a 1,973% increase in streams from the week prior to its release. [4] The song later debuted at number 78 on the Hot 100 for the week dated May 3, 2025, breaking the record for the shortest song in the chart's history, surpassing Kid Cudi's "Beautiful Trip", which is 37 seconds long. [9] "Steve's Lava Chicken" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 2025. [10]

In the United Kingdom, "Steve's Lava Chicken" peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart on May 2, 2025 ‒ for the week ending date May 8, 2025 ‒ during its third week on the chart. [11] It broke the record for the shortest song to ever appear in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. [12] The previous record holder was "The Ladies' Bras", a song by Jonny Trunk and Duncan Wisbey that was 36 seconds long. [3] The song became Black's highest-charting song in Britain, surpassing "Peaches", a song from the soundtrack for The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). [13] [3] It was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry in July 2025. [14]

Charts

Chart performance for "Steve's Lava Chicken"
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [15] 71
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [16] 64
Global 200 ( Billboard ) [17] 97
Ireland (IRMA) [18] 19
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [19] 28
Norway (VG-lista) [20] 75
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [21] 69
UK Singles (OCC) [22] 9
UK Indie (OCC) [23] 2
US Billboard Hot 100 [24] 78
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [25] 12

Certifications

Certifications for "Steve's Lava Chicken"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [14] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [10] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ Hair, Kieran (April 14, 2025). ""Steve's Lava Chicken" & Jack Black's 4 Other Songs In A Minecraft Movie, Ranked". ScreenRant. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  2. ↑ Phillips, Tom (April 22, 2025). "Steve's Lava Chicken song from A Minecraft Movie goes viral, enters UK chart". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (April 18, 2025). "Super spicy! Jack Black's Minecraft song Steve's Lava Chicken becomes shortest ever UK Top 40 hit". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Coachella Streaming Gains for Headliners Lady Gaga & Green Day, 'Should Be Headliner' Charli XCX". Billboard. April 16, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  5. ↑ WaterTower Music (March 28, 2025). "WaterTower Music Releases A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Business Wire. Archived from the original on March 29, 2025. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  6. ↑ Radulovic, Petrana (April 10, 2025). "There's an official music video for A Minecraft Movie's lava chicken song, and we're taking it far too seriously". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 11, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  7. ↑ "I...Am Steve (Bonus Songs from "A Minecraft Movie" Soundtrack) - EP by Jack Black on Apple Music". April 18, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Minecraft adds two new items commemorating iconic moments from the movie". PCGamesN. June 25, 2025. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
  9. ↑ Trust, Gary (April 28, 2025). "Jack Black Breaks Hot 100 Record With 34-Second 'Minecraft Movie' Song: Here Are the 10 Quickest Hits". Billboard. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
  10. 1 2 "American single certifications – Jack Black – Steve's Lava Chicken". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  11. ↑ "JACK BLACK". Official Charts. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  12. ↑ Gularte, Alejandra (April 19, 2025). "Minecraft Movie's Soundtrack Standout 'Steve's Lava Chicken' Serves a Top 40 Hit". Vulture. Archived from the original on April 19, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  13. ↑ Pilley, Max (April 18, 2025). "Jack Black's 'Minecraft' song becomes shortest hit single of all time, while Those Damn Crows top albums chart". NME. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  14. 1 2 "British single certifications – Jack Black – Steve's Lava Chicken". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  15. ↑ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 12 May 2025". The ARIA Report. No. 1836. Australian Recording Industry Association. May 12, 2025. p. 4.
  16. ↑ "Jack Black Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Jack Black Chart History (Global 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Official Irish Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Official Top 40 Singles". Recorded Music NZ. May 9, 2025. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Singel 2025 uke 18" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norge . Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  21. ↑ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 17" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan . Retrieved April 25, 2025.
  22. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  23. ↑ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 25, 2025.
  24. ↑ "Jack Black Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  25. ↑ "Jack Black Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
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