Audrey Nuna Is Ready to Reintroduce Herself
Categoria: Musica
After KPop Demon Hunters "reinvigorated her love for pop," Audrey Nuna is looking to recalibrate her sound and fanbase.
Por Billboard | 07/08/2026
Some artists wait decades for the breakthrough moment, and for others, everything seemingly happens overnight. For Audrey Nuna — the New Jersey-born artist whose music blends rap, pop, alternative and R&B — that coveted breakout moment came via a little movie called KPop Demon Hunters . Related ‘We Are Changed Women’: The Voices of HUNTR/X On Making History With ‘Golden’ And The Year That Launched Them To Stardom Audrey Nuna Details How the ‘Darkness’ of L.A. Inspired Her New ‘Trench’ LP BTS’s ‘Arirang’: All 14 Tracks Ranked Nuna provided the singing voice of Mira, the rebellious main dancer of HUNTR/X, for the wildly successful animated film, which spawned a Billboard 200 -topping soundtrack and numerous Billboard Hot 100 smashes, including the top 10 hit “How It’s Done” and the Grammy- and Oscar-winning chart-topper “Golden.” According to Luminate, “Golden” has collected over 971.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams, with the overall soundtrack — which has spent 54 weeks (and counting) at No. 1 on Top Soundtracks — boasting over 4 billion official streams. The KPop Demon Hunters phenomenon whisked Nuna and fellow HUNTR/X singing voices EJAE and Rei Ami into a year-long whirlwind of late-night TV debuts, high-profile interviews, flashy photo shoots and a near-constant stream of performances. Now, Nuna is prioritizing recalibration; she’s not just aiming to merge her new fans with her existing supporters, but also re-aligning her understanding and appreciation for the craft of pop music. “The biggest thing KPop Demon Hunters taught me is that it’s okay to fail and struggle through making your art,” she tells Billboard the day after playing Iowa’s Hinterland Music Festival. “As an artist, I’ve always tried to get things to feel good to me, but KPop Demon Hunters taught me structure and that, sometimes [when creating], there is a right answer, and we need to get to it. Almost like design-based thinking. [That experience] reinvigorated my love for pop, and the ideals and philosophies behind it.” Trench , Nuna’s last pre- KPop Demon Hunters project, remains quite different from the smash soundtrack’s punchy, sugary pop. Released in 2024, Nuna’s last album found her jumping from a Teezo Touchdown collaboration to an interpolation of Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine,” making for an at-times dissonant soundscape that oscillates between lightness and darkness with impressive ease. Trench followed 2021’s A Liquid Breakfast , which arrived in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside a Jack Harlow collaboration (“Comic Sans”). Now signed to Republic Records, Nuna is launching her new era with “SuperHuman,” a high-octane, dance-infused rap banger that brings her back to the gritty, rap-forward energy of her earlier work. The song, which she crafted alongside Grammy-winning superproducer Cirkut, also marks Nuna’s second collaboration with video game developer Riot Games’ Valorant