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2025 continues to be a key year for K-pop on top 40 radio, as HUNTR\/X<\/a>\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d reaches the top 10, rising two spots to No. 10, on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Pop Airplay<\/a> chart (dated Sept. 13).<\/p>\n The song from the soundtrack to the smash<\/a> animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> is the sixth Pop Airplay top 10 by an act with ties to Korean pop, and the first since BLACKPINK\u2019s ROS\u00c9 and Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cAPT.,\u201d which became the chart\u2019s first such No. 1<\/a>, for five weeks, in February-March.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n As previously reported, \u201cGolden\u201d crowns the multimetric, all-genre Billboard Hot 100<\/a> for a fourth week<\/a>, with HUNTR\/X \u2014 the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> star characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) \u2014 having become the first female group associated with Korean pop to top the chart. (EJAE and REI AMI were born in Seoul, South Korea; Nuna is from New Jersey.)<\/p>\n Here are the select six K-pop-associated Pop Airplay top 10s, beginning with PSY\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d in 2012:<\/p>\n No. 1 (five weeks), \u201cAPT.,\u201d ROS\u00c9 & Bruno Mars, beginning Feb. 1, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n No. 5, \u201cDynamite,\u201d BTS, Dec. 19, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n No. 7, \u201cCupid,\u201d Fifty Fifty, Aug. 5, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n No. 7, \u201cButter,\u201d BTS, Aug. 7, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n No. 10 (to date), \u201cGolden,\u201d HUNTR\/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, Sept. 13, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n No. 10, \u201cGangnam Style,\u201d PSY, Oct. 27, 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Pop Airplay chart reporter KMVQ (99.7 Now) San Francisco leads all panelists with nearly 1,000 plays to date for \u201cGolden,\u201d dating to its first spin in late June. SiriusXM\u2019s Hits 1 and KIIS (102.7 KIIS-FM) Los Angeles have also given the song prominent exposure.<\/p>\n The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard<\/em> by Luminate.<\/p>\n It\u2019s free <\/em>Billboard charts month! Through Sept. 30, subscribers to <\/em>Billboard\u2019s Chart Beat newsletter, emailed each Friday, can unlock access to <\/em>Billboard\u2019s weekly and historical charts, artist chart histories and all Chart Beat stories simply by visiting the newly redesigned Billboard.com through any story link in the newsletter. Not a Chart Beat subscriber? <\/em>Sign up for free here.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2025 continues to be a key year for K-pop on top 40 radio, as HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d reaches the top 10, rising two spots to No. 10, on Billboard\u2019s Pop Airplay chart (dated Sept. 13). 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