{"id":145640,"date":"2025-07-22T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=145640"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:58:18","slug":"huntr-x-vs-saja-boys-the-kpop-demon-hunters-showdown-becomes-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/huntr-x-vs-saja-boys-the-kpop-demon-hunters-showdown-becomes-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTR\/X vs Saja Boys: The KPop Demon Hunters showdown becomes a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the ultimate<strong> KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> battle! On July 22, the 2025 <strong>K World Dream Awards<\/strong> committee announced that two songs from the hit animated Netflix film are up for Best OST. <strong>HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>Saja Boys&#8217; \u201cSoda Pop\u201d<\/strong> are officially nominated and climbing the charts. \u201cGolden\u201d even peaked to No. 4 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100, beating out Frozen\u2019s \u201cLet It Go.\u201d Talk about an icy record! Meanwhile, Saja Boys are peaking at No. 25 with \u201cYour Idol\u201d on the same chart, making their rivalry leave the screen and enter a chart race.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToonHive\/status\/1947740223280181433\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 becomes the first Netflix film ever to reach a new viewing peak in its fifth week of release.<\/p>\n<p>The film is on pace to become one of Netflix\u2019s most-watched movies of all time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJEtCSt1M0\">pic.twitter.com\/WJEtCSt1M0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ToonHive (@ToonHive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToonHive\/status\/1947740223280181433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These fictional groups have gone full superstar in the real world. Their soundtrack album hit No. 5 on the <strong>Billboard 200<\/strong>, showing off its popularity in the United States. Not to mention, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is about to be the most successful animated-film soundtrack since 2021&#8217;s &#8220;Encanto,&#8221; with multiple songs charting on streaming platforms. In addition, the film is now on pace not only to become Netflix&#8217;s most-watched animated movie but one of Netflix&#8217;s all-time most-watched!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kpop_Herald\/status\/1943540843379593494\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2025 K World Dream Awards, set for Aug. 21 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul, is bringing together top K-pop boy bands across generations. The latest lineup includes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OFFICIALBTOB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OFFICIALBTOB<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TXT_bighit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@txt_bighit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRAVITYstarship?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CRAVITYstarship<\/a>, and rookie group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewBeat_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NewBeat_twt<\/a>, drawing attention for their\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mkbkmod3sn\">pic.twitter.com\/mkbkmod3sn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KpopHerald (@Kpop_Herald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kpop_Herald\/status\/1943540843379593494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The awards will be held on August 21 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul. Other soundtrack nominees include TXT\u2019s \u201cThe Day Will Come\u201d from Someday Wise Resident Life, and EXO\u2019s D.O. with \u201cForever.\u201d The event will have performances from K-pop giants like Stray Kids, IVE, NCT WISH, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the ultimate KPop Demon Hunters battle! On July 22, the 2025 K World Dream Awards committee announced that two songs from the hit animated Netflix film are up for Best OST. HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d and Saja Boys&#8217; \u201cSoda Pop\u201d are officially nominated and climbing the charts. \u201cGolden\u201d even peaked to No. 4 on Billboard\u2019s Hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":145641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1631,2264,16],"tags":[3460],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145640"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=145640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}