{"id":230637,"date":"2025-07-02T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230637\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:27:15","slug":"ahn-hyo-seop-surprises-fans-with-cover-of-free-from-kpop-demon-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230637\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahn Hyo Seop surprises fans with cover of &#8220;Free&#8221; from &#8216;Kpop Demon Hunters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751382407-header-photo.jpg\" data-image=\"4xnjcqehcllt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allkpop.com\/artisttag\/ahn-hyo-seop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahn Hyo Seop<\/a>\u00a0surprised fans with a gift and returned to being <strong>Jinwoo<\/strong> from &#8216;<strong>Kpop Demon Hunters<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On July 1, Ahn Hyo Seop uploaded a short video clip on his social media covering the original\u00a0soundtrack &#8220;<strong>Free<\/strong>&#8221; from the hit Netflix animated film. From the very first note, he embodies Jinwoo completely, bringing the character to life again. This is fitting, as he voices the character in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DLj4TpjNrAF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>&#8216;Kpop Demon Hunters&#8217; has been dominating both film and music charts since its release on June 20. According to FlixPatrol, it has ranked No. 1 in Netflix\u2019s Top 10 Films category for 11 consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p>The songs from the film are also gaining global popularity. The &#8216;Kpop Demon Hunters&#8217; OST debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 (dated July 5).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all. \u201c<strong>Your Idol<\/strong>\u201d by the Saja Boys debuted at No. 77 on the Billboard Hot 100, while \u201c<strong>Golden<\/strong>\u201d by <strong>HUNTR\/X<\/strong> entered at No. 81.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751383570-image.png\" data-image=\"2kbwbbus8c46\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Spotify, the world\u2019s largest music streaming platform, \u201cGolden\u201d ranked higher, reaching No. 6 on the Daily Top Songs Global chart (dated June 29), while \u201cYour Idol\u201d placed at No. 10.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Saja Boys\u2019 \u201c<strong>Soda Pop<\/strong>\u201d ranked No. 16, HUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201c<strong>How It\u2019s Done<\/strong>\u201d was No. 17, and the duet \u201c<strong>Free<\/strong>\u201d by <strong>Rumi <\/strong>and Jinwoo came in at No. 27 on the same chart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Kpop Demon Hunters&#8217; is an animated film centered on K-pop idols. It follows a girl group who are also demon hunters, as they face off against a demon faction boy group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px!important;font-weight:bold!important;\">SEE ALSO: <a class=\"see_also\" style=\"font-size:16px;\" data-link=\"\/\/www.allkpop.com\/article\/2025\/06\/ahn-hyo-seop-shares-thoughts-on-the-global-success-of-kpop-demon-hunters\" data-from-idx=\"331355\" data-to-idx=\"331157\" target=\"\">Ahn Hyo Seop shares thoughts on the global success of &#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahn Hyo Seop\u00a0surprised fans with a gift and returned to being Jinwoo from &#8216;Kpop Demon Hunters.&#8217; On July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[90651,39608,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ahn-hyo-seop","9":"tag-allkpop","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114780809053774969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}