{"id":298019,"date":"2026-02-23T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:59:06","slug":"bafta-awards-2026-kpop-demon-hunters-golden-gets-live-debut-in-viral-music-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298019\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA Awards 2026: KPop Demon Hunters’ Golden Gets Live Debut in Viral Music Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAFTA Awards 2026: KPop Demon Hunters Steal The Show<\/p>\n

The BAFTA performance adds to a run of live appearances of K-Pop Demon Hunters that began with The Tonight Show in October, continued through the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and NFL Christmas Gameday, and moved into New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. The trio are also set to perform at the BRIT Awards next weekend, where they’ll be the first K-pop act to take that stage.<\/p>\n

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack placed No. 3 on the IFPI Global Album Chart for 2025, behind Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl and Morgan Wallen. The franchise’s merchandise and collectibles line<\/a>, which expanded at Toy Fair 2026, signals ongoing commercial interest beyond music and film.<\/p>\n

The film holds two nominations at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. It also swept the Annie Awards the day before the BAFTAs, winning 10 categories including Best Feature.<\/p>\n

In a BAFTA Awards 2026 ceremony packed with entertainment news (from One Battle After Another’s six wins to Robert Aramayo’s historic double) KPop Demon Hunters’ BAFTA 2026 viral performance held its own. The film continues through award season without a BAFTA nomination, but with a BAFTA 2026 music performance that, by the crowd’s reaction, didn’t seem to need one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAFTA Awards 2026: KPop Demon Hunters Steal The Show The BAFTA performance adds to a run of live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[164125,164126,164127,163775,164128,156,1096,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-298019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bafta-2026-golden-performance","tag-bafta-2026-music-performance","tag-bafta-2026-viral-performance","tag-bafta-awards-2026","tag-bafta-awards-2026-entertainment-news","tag-entertainment","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}