Music has become a key part of a queen’s post-Drag Race armoury . United Kingdolls. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/World of Wonder
If you’ve spent the past fortnight with the words “Bing-bang-bong sing-sang-song ding-dang-dong” reverberating around your brain, Freddy Scott would like to apologise. “To those who say they can’t sleep because they have UK Hun?
stuck in your head,” the songwriter says, “I’m sorry–ish.”
Scott and his co-writer Leland are the creators of the viral hit from the British edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race
. Written as a homage to Eurovision and performed by the show’s drag queen contestants, UK Hun? by United Kingdolls, with its earworm chorus, entered the UK Top 40 at No 27 last week, ahead of established pop acts such as Rita Ora and Pink. It beat the reality TV show’s previous highest chart entry, Break Up Bye Bye, which peaked at No 35 in 2019.
Photo: BBC/World Of Wonder/Guy Levy
Drag Race’s 13th season just put on one hell of an “unverified” Rusical, but with all due respect to the U.S. queens we’re still clapping for the Bing Bang Bong from across the pond. In a franchise full of campy musical tributes and runway-ready bops, the second edition of
Drag Race UK has delivered its catchiest song yet in the form of the brilliantly nonsensical “UK Hun?,” which has become the crown jewel of a ridiculously fun season and an unlikely chart-climber, currently sitting at #27 on the U.K. Singles Chart. As it spreads like wildfire across the radio and social media, inspiring TikToks and countless memes, “UK Hun?” is both a testament to
“UK Hun” from the unrivalled United Kingdolls of
Drag Race UK is on course to make chart history.
Since its official release last week, “UK Hun?” has already reached number one on the iTunes chart and number four on the Official Big Top 40 (which, despite its confusing name, is not the Official Singles Chart).
Now it looks set to make chart herstory by cracking the top 40 proper.
A midweek Official Singles Chart update put the song at 25. If it keeps up momentum, it could become the highest-charting
Drag Race UK single to date, following last season’s iconic effort, “Break Up (Bye Bye) by the Frock Destroyers, which reached number 35.