Golden tops charts as KPop Demon Hunters perform on Fallon
EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singing voices behind Huntrx in the animated hit KPop Demon Hunters, gave the first full live television performance of their smash single Golden on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 7. The appearance followed a surprise cameo on Saturday Night Live earlier that weekend, when the trio joined host Bad Bunny for an abbreviated sketch performance of the song on SNL’s Season 51 premiere.
Golden has been a commercial phenomenon since the film’s summer release. The track has spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a run that places it among the longest leading movie songs in the chart’s history and marks one of the longest reigns ever for an all-women group. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack returned to number one on the Billboard 200 for a second nonconsecutive week, logging 102,000 equivalent album units in the most recent tracking period and more than 117 million on-demand official streams, according to Luminate, the independent data provider that audits chart submissions.
The soundtrack was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and Golden received multi-platinum recognition, with...