Every Song in KPop Demon Hunters

KPop Demon Hunters carries its plot inside its songs. The 2025 Netflix film, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans for Sony Pictures Animation, hands two fictional groups a full run of singles, and the rivalry, the betrayal and the ending all play out within those tracks rather than around them. Sorting out who sings what is complicated by one thing: the speaking cast and the singing cast are not the same people.

HUNTR/X and the voices behind them

HUNTR/X are Rumi, Mira and Zoey, voiced on screen by Arden Cho, May Hong and Ji-young Yoo. On the recordings they are sung by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI respectively. That split explains why a listener who knows the album can fail to recognise a character the moment she starts talking.

The group opens the film with "How It's Done", a stadium number that doubles as the exposition for what these three actually do for a living. "Golden" is the centrepiece and the track that became the film's calling card, credited to the same three singers. The music team describes it as the film's "I want" song, the number where the group states what it is reaching for. "Takedown" is the aggressive one, aimed squarely at the rival band. "What It Sounds Like" arrives at the end and resolves the argument the film has been having with itself about hiding what you are.

The Saja Boys, and the duet in the middle

The Saja Boys are the demon boy band sent to drain the same audience HUNTR/X protect. They are five. Andrew Choi sings Jinu, the group's front man, while Ahn Hyo-seop provides Jinu's speaking voice. Behind them are samUIL Lee as Romance Saja, Kevin Woo as Mystery Saja, Neckwav as Abby Saja, and Danny Chung as Baby Saja, who is the one member singing and speaking his own part, and who takes the rap verses in the middle of "Soda Pop".

They get two songs, and they are deliberately opposites. "Soda Pop" is the bright, harmless-sounding debut, all sugar and choreography. "Your Idol" is the mask coming off. Between the two sits "Free", the duet for Rumi and Jinu, sung by EJAE and Andrew Choi. It is the only track on which the two sides stop performing at each other.

What else is on the album

The soundtrack also carries two TWICE recordings. The group's own version of "Takedown" is performed by Jeongyeon, Jihyo and Chaeyoung, and sits alongside the HUNTR/X version rather than replacing it. "Strategy", already released as a TWICE single before the film, is included as well. The instrumental score is by Marcelo Zarvos and is credited separately from the songs.

Behind the songs is a writing and production team that includes Teddy Park, co-founder of The Black Label, Lindgren and EJAE, who co-wrote as well as sang, with Ian Eisendrath as executive music producer. "Golden" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Sony Pictures Animation has announced a sequel for 2029 and has itself called that date optimistic, so it should be read as a target rather than a release date. No songs, performers or songwriters for it have been announced, and Netflix has not said whether any of the above will return.

The album is usually what sends people looking for everything else. The gifts round-up goes title by title, and a good part of it is about how loosely some sellers name the film. The toys page is the Mattel end of the range, all three of HUNTR/X plus Jinu, who is the only boy in it.