Jack Black’s Mario song ‘Peaches’ has entered the Billboard Hot 100

Super Mario Bros. MovieThis is quite a deal. It was so big that in just nine days after its premiere, it had earned over $500 million around the world. Mamma mia, that’s a whole lotta money! As if that weren’t enough, the film’s original song “Peaches,” written and performed by Bowser voice actor Jack Black, debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. Black’s first solo song was released this week at No. 83.

According to Billboard, “Peaches” was released on April 7 and amassed 5.8 million streams in the U.S. and 6,000 downloads within its first week. The release of the single was accompanied by a hilarious live-action music video featuring Black, dressed in a Bowser-like green suit and red headdress, seated at a peach-colored piano and crooning the song’s lyrics with his typical flair for physical theatrics.

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Jack Black is a bona fide multi hyphenate: An actor-comedian-musician whose effervescent charm and gregarious onscreen personality have earned him success across film (School of Rock, Kung Fu PandaTV (Drunk History, The MandalorianVideo Games (Brutal Legend, Psychonauts 2He is also a musician, having founded the rock duo Tenacious-D in 1994 along with his bandmate Kyle Gass. It is important to understand the importance of Super Mario Bros. Movie’s success on Black’s career, both serving as the vehicle for what is arguably his biggest mainstream screen role to date as Mario’s fire-breathing (and heart-stealing) nemesis Bower while delivering him the first solo single hit of his nearly three decade-long career as a musician, cannot be overstated.

Given the film’s commercial success, a sequel to Super Mario Bros. MovieThe sequel seems to be a done deal, and this is even though Nintendo or Illumination have not announced it yet. While the question of the immediate future of the Mario Bros. film franchise hangs in the air like a floating question block, what’s not a question is Jack Black’s contribution to the film’s success. This relationship will hopefully result in Black’s return to the screen as the Koopa King, the villainous Koopa.