{"id":158104,"date":"2026-02-02T05:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=158104"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:39:54","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-golden-makes-history-at-the-grammys-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/kpop-demon-hunters-golden-makes-history-at-the-grammys-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 \u201cGOLDEN\u201d makes history at the GRAMMYs awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s animated blockbuster film<strong><em>, \u201cKpop Demon Hunters,<\/em><\/strong>\u201d is still sweeping the categories that it\u2019s nominated in. No matter the tough competition,<strong><em> \u201cGOLDEN,\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>has met with the expectation of the music critics and the public overall.<\/p>\n<p>On February 1 KST, during the 2026 GRAMMY Awards,<strong><em> \u201cGOLDEN\u201d<\/em> made history after being announced as the winner of Best Song Written for Visual Media<\/strong>. This category honors songwriters such as EJAE, whose work for visual media demonstrates their artistic and musical excellence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YNJicfFVRuM\" title=\"GOLDEN [FROM &quot;KPOP DEMON HUNTERS&quot;] Wins SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA | 2026 GRAMMYs\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNJicfFVRuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, <strong><em>\u201cGOLDEN,\u201d<\/em> becomes the first and only Kpop song to win such recognition in the music industry.<\/strong> Despite other Kpop acts being nominated in different categories, only \u201cKpop Demon Hunters\u201d were able to rise to the top. However, this victory became a historic milestone not only for the Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 music songwriters but for Kpop\u2019s expanding influence.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, song contributors EJAE, Teddy, 24, and IDO (Yoo Han, Kwak Jung-gyu, Nam Hee-dong) officially earn the title of <strong>Grammy winners<\/strong>. Producer 24 shared in his acceptance remarks the following speech:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>Although he couldn\u2019t be here with us today, I dedicate this honor to my greatest mentor and closest friend, Teddy\u2014<strong>the pioneer of K-pop<\/strong>\u2014who was with me throughout this entire journey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s animated blockbuster film, \u201cKpop Demon Hunters,\u201d is still sweeping the categories that it\u2019s nominated in. No matter the tough competition, \u201cGOLDEN,\u201d has met with the expectation of the music critics and the public overall. On February 1 KST, during the 2026 GRAMMY Awards, \u201cGOLDEN\u201d made history after being announced as the winner of Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":158105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1631,109],"tags":[3460],"class_list":["post-158104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kpop","category-awards","category-grammys","tag-kpop-demon-hunters"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158104","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}