**Naija Connection to the Oscars: 18 Songs that Made History** You may be wondering how your favorite K-Pop groups or Nollywood soundtracks could be related to the Hollywood Oscars. Well, let's dive into the fascinating world of music history. Recently, HUNTR/X's "Golden" from K-Pop Demon Hunters became the first song to join an elite list of 18 tracks that have topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won the Oscar for Best Original Song. This achievement comes seven years after "Shallow" from A Star Is Born. "Golden" spent eight non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Hot 100 chart, a feat only two other Oscar-winning songs have achieved. We're talking about Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" in 1977 and Eminem's "Lose Yourself" in 2002-03. But how did this list come about? The Motion Picture Academy started awarding Best Original Song in 1935, while the Billboard Hot 100 chart has been keeping track of music trends since 1958. So, over nearly 68 years, only 18 songs have managed to top the Hot 100 and win the Oscar. Some notable artists and songwriters have achieved this double distinction. Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Warnes are the only artists to have topped the Hot 100 twice with Oscar-winning songs. Burt Bacharach, Giorgio Moroder, and Will Jennings are the only songwriters to have won two Oscars for songs that topped the Hot 100. Interestingly, the 1970s and 1980s were the heyday for best original song winners topping the Hot 100. However, the frequency of this double victory decreased in the following decades, with only two songs in the 1990s, one each in the 2000s and 2010s, and now one (so far) in the 2020s. Here's the list of the 18 songs that have achieved this remarkable feat, in chronological order, with the year shown as the year of the Oscar ceremony: 1. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) 2. "For All We Know" from Lovers and Lollipops (1970) 3. "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure (1973) 4. "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were (1974) 5. "I'm Easy" from Nashville (1975) 6. "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life (1977) 7. "You Light Up My Life" cover version by Debby Boone (1977) 8. "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae (1979) 9. "On My Own" from Les Misérables (1980) 10. "Arthur's