EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami can’t leave “Golden” behind. The KPop Demon Hunters trio reunited to perform the hit song at the Billboard Women in Music event on Wednesday night before accepting the award for 2026 Women of the Year.
The performance (at around the two-hour mark) featured the singers dressed in all-black for a more intimate rendition of the pop number. The trio then accepted the award from Ella Mai.
“Music doesn’t see race or gender, it only asks for the truth and when I brought my full truth into it – my voice, my Korean-ness, my women-ness — everything began to shift,” EJAE told the crowd. “I realized that as a woman, our power has never been in fitting in.”
Rei Ami added, “There’s nothing more intimidating than a confident woman who knows what she wants. Our ability to persevere and show up is an absolute superpower, so thank you to all the women in this room for using your superpowers to inspire, lead and protect.”
Nuna concluded, “To receive this honor and to represent a song and a film that affirms this notion that the world needs women to show up as their fullest, most whole selves.”
Other performers at the event included Teyana Taylor, Tate McRae, Kehlani, Ella Langley, and Laufey. The awards were hosted by Keke Palmer, who also performed her song “Text Message Unsent.”
EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami, who perform in the Netflix film as fictional group HUNTR/X, have brought “Golden” to numerous awards show and late-night show stages in recent months. They performed the track at the Oscars in March, where the film took home the award for Best Original Song.
Prior to the Oscars, the demon-hunting trio brought “Golden” to the 2026 Bafta Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. At the 2026 Grammys, they were nominated for five awards (and won for Best Song Written For Visual Media). They were also nominated for three Golden Globes, and won two: Best Original Song — Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture, Animated.
“When I was a little girl, I worked tirelessly for 10 years to fulfill one dream: to become a K-pop idol,” EJAE said at the Golden Globes, when she became the first Korean-American to be awarded. “I was rejected and disappointed that my voice wasn’t good enough, so I leaned on songs and music to get through it. Now, I’m here as a singer and a songwriter.”
