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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

A movie star has just set an all-time record on the Billboard pop charts. NPR's Stephen Thompson has the report. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: The actor Jack Black is also a veteran singer. He's even hit ...

This week, his life as a singer and his life as an actor have dovetailed, as Jack Black has just set an all-time record on the Billboard Hot 100. He's recorded the shortest song ever to hit the chart.

The 34-second-long song is now the shortest song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 list by run time in the chart's almost 70-year history. Written by Black, 55, and the movie's director, Jared Hess, "Steve ...

(Black, who stars in the film as Steve, co-wrote the song with director Jared Hess.) Its length? Incredibly, only 34 seconds, though there's a remix that drags it out to 1:22, which is essentially a ...

The song's debut chart position this week? No. 78. "Steve's Lava Chicken" isn't Black's first song to crack the Hot 100; that would be "The Pick of Destiny," by his band Tenacious D, which also ...