{"id":452494,"date":"2026-02-01T23:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:15:10","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-wins-grammy-for-best-song-for-visual-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452494\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;KPop\u00a0Demon Hunters&#8217; Wins Grammy for Best Song for Visual Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s our moment\u201d for Huntr\/x and Netflix\u2019s mega-hit \u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singers from \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d can add Grammy winners to their list of accolades. Their song \u201cGolden\u201d won best song written for visual media, presented in the pre-telecast ceremony Sunday afternoon. The song, performed by the three singers and written by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, DO, 24 and Teddy, was nominated for four <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/grammys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grammys\" data-tag=\"grammys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grammys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt marks the first K-pop song to ever win a Grammy. This year, Blackpink singer Ros\u00e9 earned three nominations for her song\u00a0\u201cAPT\u201d\u00a0with\u00a0Bruno Mars, including song and record of the Year and best pop duo or group performance. BTS has earned five nods in the group\u2019s career but has yet to win any awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the visual media category, \u201cGolden\u201d beat \u201cAs Alive As You Need Me To Be\u201d (Nine Inch Nails), \u201cI Lied to You\u201d (Miles Caton), \u201cNever Too Late\u201d (Elton John, Brandi Carlile), \u201cPale, Pale Moon\u201d (Jayme Lawson) and \u201cSinners\u201d (Leonard Denisenko, Rodarius Green, Travis).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d is still up for song of the year, which will be presented on the nighttime telecast. In two other categories it was nominated for, best pop duo\/group performance and best remixed recording, it lost out in the pre-telecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile the group didn\u2019t perform at the Grammys, Nuna previously spoke about the importance of the nomination. She said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to see three Korean faces. To think about the kids who are going to see that, and hopefully for that to shape their understanding of what they can do in this world, is the stuff that is giving me chills up my spine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEJAE made history as the first Korean-American female songwriter to be nominated for song of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSince its debut on Netflix in June, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kpop-demon-hunters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d viewership went up, up, up. According to end-of-year Nielsen data, the Netflix title was by far the most-streamed movie of 2025 with a whopping 20.5 billion viewing minutes in the U.S. alone. Dividing that by the film\u2019s 99-minute runtime gives the equivalent viewership of 207 million full movie watches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, topped the year-end charts despite debuting midway through 2025 in June. Netflix gave it a couple of limited theatrical releases following its surge in popularity on the streaming platform.Meanwhile, three of its original songs \u2014 \u201cGolden,\u201d \u201cYour Idol\u201d and \u201cSoda Pop\u201d \u2014 have been mainstays on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d is also nominated for an Academy Award for best original song, where it\u2019s considered a frontrunner. Huntr\/x will be one of two song performances during the show, in addition to the \u201cSinners\u201d team for \u201cI Lied to You.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s our moment\u201d for Huntr\/x and Netflix\u2019s mega-hit \u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,62695,28936,136],"class_list":["post-452494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-grammys","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}