HUNTR/X From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Could Become the First K-Pop Act & Second Animated Act to Achieve This Grammy Feat

HUNTR/X, the heroic trio successful Netflix’s phenomenal deed KPop Demon Hunters, could marque Grammy past erstwhile the nominations are announced connected Nov. 7. The act’s smash “Golden,” which is successful its eighth week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100, could go the archetypal K-Pop deed to person a grounds of the twelvemonth nomination.

Moreover, HUNTR/X could go lone the 2nd animated enactment to onshore a motion successful that marquee category. The archetypal was The Chipmunks, which rated a grounds of the twelvemonth motion astatine the inaugural Grammy Awards ceremonial successful 1959 for the Hot 100-topping “The Chipmunk Song.”

The Chipmunks’ nods went to their creator, Ross Bagdasarian Sr., who went by the signifier sanction David Seville. In summation to its grounds of the twelvemonth nod, “The Chipmunk Song” won successful 2 categories – champion signaling for children and champion drama performance. Bagdasarian died of a bosom onslaught successful January 1972 astatine property 52.

While “The Chipmunk Song” was a novelty hit, “Golden” is squarely successful the modern popular mainstream. In summation to grounds of the year, “Golden” is entered for opus of the year, champion popular duo/group performance, champion opus written for ocular media and champion euphony video. 

If “Golden” receives a grounds of the twelvemonth nod, its main humanities value volition beryllium arsenic the archetypal K-pop deed to registry successful that category. BTS is thought to person travel adjacent with “Dynamite,” “Butter” and “My Universe” (the latter, a collab with Coldplay). All 3 hits were nominated for champion popular duo/group performance.

When “Golden” logged its fifth week atop the Hot 100, it became the longest-leading deed by an animated enactment successful the chart’s 67-year history. Two erstwhile cartoon groups each reigned for 4 weeks: The Archies, with “Sugar, Sugar” successful the summertime of 1969, and The Chipmunks with Seville, with “The Chipmunk Song” implicit the 1958 vacation season.

“Golden” is the ninth opus successful the realm of Korean popular to apical the Hot 100; the archetypal by pistillate pb vocalists with ties to the genre. HUNTR/X singers EJAE and REI AMI were calved successful Seoul, South Korea; the trio’s 3rd member, Audrey Nuna, is from New Jersey.