Emily Zemler
View all posts by Emily Zemler April 30, 2026
Audrey Nuna, Ejae, and Rei Ami perform onstage at the Billboard Women in Music 2026 event at the Hollywood Palladium. Gilbert Flores 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.
