HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Fends Off Holiday Competition to Reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs Chart
The smash previously topped Pop Airplay for three weeks and the Hot 100 for eight frames.
12/29/2025
The smash previously topped Pop Airplay for three weeks and the Hot 100 for eight frames.
The singing voices of HUNTR/X from "KPop Demon Hunters," REI AMI, EJAE and Audrey Nuna perform at iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2025 presented by Capital One at Intuit Dome on Dec. 5, 2025, in Los Angeles. Christopher Polk
HUNTR/X slays/sleighs all competition on Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs chart (dated Jan. 3, 2026), as “Golden” rises a spot to No. 1. The smash drew 58.3 million in airplay audience, up 2% week-over-week, Dec. 19-25, according to Luminate, with stations monitored by Mediabase.
Notably, the song is the first associated with K-pop (Korean pop) to rule the ranking. Previously for the genre, ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” held the mark (No. 4 peak in February).
“Golden” previously led the Pop Airplay chart for three weeks beginning in November. It has totaled eight weeks at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, from mid-August through mid-October; 18 weeks atop the Billboard Global 200; and a record-tying 19 weeks in charge of the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
The anthem is by the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, in the roles of heroines Rumi, Mira and Zoey from Netflix’s record-hauling animated film KPop Demon Hunters. The movie’s soundtrack, on Visva/Republic, has crowned the Billboard 200 for two weeks and spent its first 27 weeks and counting in the top 10.
“‘Golden’ has truly become a defining pop moment, an instant lean-in, turn-it-up track,” Alex Tear, vp of music programming for SiriusXM and Pandora, told Billboard upon its Pop Airplay coronation.
Thanks to the movie’s wide reach, Tear added of “Golden,” “There’s that immediate familiarity and big emotion that just hits.”
“Up, up, up,” REI AMI when “Golden” hit No. 1 on the Hot 100.