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\n\tEJAE, the breakout star of Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, has signed with WME for all areas of representation, the agency announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n \n\tThe 33-year-old was the singing voice and one of the main songwriters on the animated film. \u201cGolden,\u201d which EJAE co-wrote and performs alongside fellow singing voices Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, has become a smash hit. In addition to her work on KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, EJAE has a lengthy career working as a songwriter on K-pop songs by some of the industry\u2019s biggest groups, including Aespa, Le Sserafim, Twice and NMIXX.<\/p>\n \n\tEJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna have been busy throughout the last month. The trio has been taking their chart-topping song on the road for live performances on Saturday Night Live<\/em> and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe animated feature has become Netflix\u2019s most popular title ever. The project \u2014 which chronicles the adventures of Huntrix, a K-pop girl group comprising three members who just happen to also fight monsters from the underworld \u2014 has been a surprise hit for the streamer, and its soundtrack has spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.\u00a0THR<\/em>\u00a0has confirmed that a\u00a0sequel film is in talks\u00a0at Netflix and Sony Animation.<\/p>\n \n\tIn August, Huntrix ended Alex Warren\u2019s long-running No. 1 streak to take the top spot on the chart. After a flip-flop the following week, the song returned to No. 1, where it remained for eight weeks. Taylor Swift\u2019s takeover of the top slots of the Hot 100 temporarily brought the song lower on the chart, but it\u2019s since rebounded to No. 3. Several songs from the soundtrack are charting on the Hot 100. \u201cYour Idol\u201d and \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d sung by the film\u2019s fictional boy group Saja Boys, sit at No. 19 and No. 20, respectively. \u201cHow It\u2019s Done,\u201d also sung by Huntrix, sits at No. 25; four other songs round out the album\u2019s appearance on the chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EJAE, the breakout star of Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters, has signed with WME for all areas of representation, the agency announced Wednesday. The 33-year-old was the singing voice and one of the main songwriters on the animated film. \u201cGolden,\u201d which EJAE co-wrote and performs alongside fellow singing voices Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, has become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[11161,7192,17621,7689,1934,181,17622],"class_list":{"0":"post-29886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-breakout","9":"tag-demon","10":"tag-ejae","11":"tag-hunters","12":"tag-kpop","13":"tag-signs","14":"tag-wme"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}