'Cobra Kai' Rules Top TV Songs Chart With Cyndi Lauper Synch

After syncing to Netflix's latest season Cobra Kai, Cyndi Lauper's “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” claims the top spot Bulletin boardChart of top TV songs, powered by Tunefindfor July 2024.

Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and are ranked using a formula that combines 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 reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1984), was heard in the third episode of the sixth season of the Netflix series, which ran for the entire first five episodes together on July 18, with the next five coming in November.

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” amassed 13.7 million official US on-demand streams and 2,000 downloads as of July 2024, according to Luminate.

The song is the only entry from Cobra Kai in the July 2024 countdown; followed by a number of titles from Amazon Prime Video The Boys and Peacock's American version Island of Lovewhich take up the remainder of the 10-place list.

Music from its fourth season The Boys — particularly episodes six, seven and eight, which aired between July 4 and 18 — occupy 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 syncopation on the show's sixth episode, 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 Island of Lovewhose sixth season premiered in June and ran through July, the top-performing track was Chance Pena's “The Mountain Is You” at No. 8 after appearing on episode 22 (July 5) via 1, 4 million streams.

See the full top 10 below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
1. “Girls Just Wanna 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. “Rosana”, 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, Island of Love (Peacock)
9. “Sex and Candy”, Unions, Island of Love (Peacock)
10. “You Can Do Magic”, America, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)