Skip to main content
Lifestyle

KPop Demon Hunters' fictional music group breaks into the Billboard Hot 100 charts

Huntr/x is proving to be a massive success, despite not being real.
Ben Lyons Senior Editor 4 July 2025

If you need any proof that K-pop is a sensation all around the world and not just in Korea, all you need to do is take a glimpse at the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which documents the current most popular songs in the United States.

As of the moment, the chart pays host to a song from a K-pop band that isn't even real, as the group Huntr/x from Netflix's animated movie KPop Demon Hunters has worked its way into the chart, up as high as 80th on this list. Yep, a fictional musical group has outperformed big name stars like Ed Sheeran.

Specifically, it's the group's song Golden that has made the cut, which has placed as high as global sensation Blackpink ever managed to achieve. Clearly, this proves that k-pop is popular and also that the movie is a big hit and worth watching, something we can attest to in our dedicated review.

Senior Editor Ben was a Senior Editor at Gamereactor UK. When he wasn’t writing, editing or filming for Gamereactor, he could usually be found playing an FPS or getting lost in a sprawling RPG.
Full profile Gamereactor author since October 2020 · 18,577 published articles
Why trust Gamereactor
23 Editions Each with its own newsroom and its own scores.
1998 Publishing since Independently owned for the whole of it.
100% Hands-on Written from time with the game, never press material.
1–10 Network Score Every edition’s score, averaged and shown.