The original soundtrack (OST) Golden from the Netflix animation K-pop Demon Hunters won at the 68th Grammy Awards.
Golden was announced as the winner in the Best Song Written For Visual Media institutional sector at the 68th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on the afternoon of the 1st (local time) in Los Angeles (LA). This institutional sector is an award given to the songwriters who created the song, and EJAE, Teddy, 24, and ADIO (Lee Yu-han, Kwak Jung-kyu, Nam Hee-dong), who took part in the production, had the honor of winning a Grammy.
There have been cases where music engineer Hwang Byung-jun and Korean American Young-in received awards before, but this is the first time a K-pop songwriter or music producer has won a Grammy Award.
As K-pop Demon Hunters gained worldwide popularity, its main theme song Golden also became a big hit. Golden set a new record as the first K-pop-related song to simultaneously top the U.S. Billboard main singles chart Hot 100 and the U.K. Official Singles Chart Top 100.
Major U.S. media outlets also gave prominent coverage to Golden's win. The New York Times (NYT) quickly reported the Grammy win for Golden, saying that the hit song from K-pop Demon Hunters "finally quenched the long thirst of the powerful global genre (K-pop)" by winning in the best song written for visual media institutional sector.
The Best Pop Duo/Group Performance institutional sector, which drew attention with Blackpink Rosé's APT. and KATSEYE's Gabriela as nominees, went to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for Defying Gravity from the Wicked OST. In this institutional sector, the global supergroup BTS had also been nominated previously but did not win.