HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Makes More Inroads for K-Pop in Top 10 of Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart

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Earlier this year, ROSÉ and Bruno Mars' "APT." became the survey's archetypal K-pop leader.

2025 continues to beryllium a cardinal twelvemonth for K-pop connected apical 40 radio, arsenic HUNTR/X’s “Golden” reaches the apical 10, rising 2 spots to No. 10, connected Billboard’s Pop Airplay illustration (dated Sept. 13).

The opus from the soundtrack to the smash animated Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters is the sixth Pop Airplay apical 10 by an enactment with ties to Korean pop, and the archetypal since BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.,” which became the chart’s first specified No. 1, for 5 weeks, successful February-March.

As antecedently reported, “Golden” crowns the multimetric, all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week, with HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of KPop Demon Hunters prima characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — having go the archetypal pistillate radical associated with Korean popular to apical the chart. (EJAE and REI AMI were calved successful Seoul, South Korea; Nuna is from New Jersey.)

Here are the prime six K-pop-associated Pop Airplay apical 10s, opening with PSY’s “Gangnam Style” successful 2012:

No. 1 (five weeks), “APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, opening Feb. 1, 2025
No. 5, “Dynamite,” BTS, Dec. 19, 2020
No. 7, “Cupid,” Fifty Fifty, Aug. 5, 2023
No. 7, “Butter,” BTS, Aug. 7, 2021
No. 10 (to date), “Golden,” HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, Sept. 13, 2025
No. 10, “Gangnam Style,” PSY, Oct. 27, 2012

Pop Airplay illustration newsman KMVQ (99.7 Now) San Francisco leads each panelists with astir 1,000 plays to day for “Golden,” dating to its archetypal rotation successful precocious June. SiriusXM’s Hits 1 and KIIS (102.7 KIIS-FM) Los Angeles person besides fixed the opus salient exposure.

The Pop Airplay illustration ranks songs by play plays connected much than 150 mainstream apical 40 vigor stations monitored by Mediabase, with information provided to Billboard by Luminate.

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