{"id":318404,"date":"2025-11-28T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318404\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:05:12","slug":"golden-from-kpop-demon-hunters-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318404\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Golden&#8217; From &#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217; at Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real-life singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami hit the NYC streets for the 99th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-new-balloons-kpop-demon-hunters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/a> on Thursday to bring to life the fictional girl band Huntr\/X and perform their hit \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d song, \u201cGolden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It all kicked off right after cameras showed one of the parade\u2019s newest balloons, Derpy Tiger, which is a fan-favorite character from the Netflix movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/powerwomensummit2025.splashthat.com\/PowerhouseSpeakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764324312_27_PWS-970-x-250-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7893946\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EJAE, who was sporting an all-black outfit with a fluffy, lavendar hat, started the track surrounded by background dancers. She then passed the song over to Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna before reuniting at the end for a dramatic conclusion to their performance, where they were showered with confetti. <\/p>\n<p>Cheers and roars from a portion of the more than 3.5 million spectators filled the streets, and production even caught actor and comedian Ken Jeong, who also stars in \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d singing right along.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the clip above, the song is beloved by many and has broken ground for the K-pop genre in America. \u201cGolden\u201d has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/grammy-nominations-list-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">earned four Grammy nominations<\/a>, including Song of the Year, and became the first K-pop song by an all-female group to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d hit Netflix screens on June 20, while also grossing $24.6 million at the global box office. It is also the streamer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/kpop-demon-hunters-most-watched-netflix-movie-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">top movie of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Huntr\/X, several other musicians checked into the parade to perform, including Cynthia Erivo, Kool &amp; the Gang, Lil Jon, Taylor Momsen and more. The parade took place in New York City on Thursday, with a 2.5-mile route from West 77th St. and Central Part West to Macy\u2019s Herald Square.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-new-balloons-kpop-demon-hunters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rump-3-6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2025 (Getty Images)\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real-life singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami hit the NYC streets for the 99th annual Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[135936,81903,88,163222,163079,216,111122],"class_list":{"0":"post-318404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audrey-nuna","9":"tag-ejae","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kpop-hunters","12":"tag-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-rei-ami"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}