What Power Rotation Says About Top 40 in 2026

I’m happy that Huntr/x’s “Golden” is a power for so many CHR stations now. When this column declared it Song of Summer 2025, that decision reflected the cultural impact and shared experience of KPop Demon Hunters. At that moment, though, it looked like CHR was going to acknowledge “Golden” but not power it, viewing it more as BTS’s “Dynamite” than Rosé & Bruno Mars’s “APT.” Seeing K-Pop’s clichés definitively shattered is a good thing. But it’s still a Song of Summer in power five months later.

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