“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters is still picking up awards. The global smash, which won a Golden Globe, a Grammy and an Oscar last winter, among many other awards, won best original song at the 2026 World Soundtrack Awards, which were held on Saturday (Oct. 10) at the annual WSA Ceremony & Concert during Film Fest Gent, Belgium’s biggest international film festival.

The song, which was written by Kim Eun-jae, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park and performed by HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks.

British composer Daniel Pemberton was named film composer of the year for Project Hail Mary, The Drama, The Bad Guys 2 and Masters of the Universe.

The television composer of the year award was presented to Jeff Russo for Alien: Earth, Cape Fear and Citadel (Season 2).

Hannah Peel took home the award for discovery of the year, while the public choice award went to Kevin Smithers’ score for Soy Frankelda.

For three days, international film and film music professionals gathered in Music Centre De Bijloke in the historic heart of Ghent for talks, workshops and masterclasses about the art of composing film music. The last day concluded with the award ceremony and a live concert with selected music by WSA guest of honour Hildur Guðnadóttir and lifetime achievement award recipient Trevor Jones, performed by Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brossé.

Here’s a complete list of winners at the 2026 World Soundtrack Awards. 

Film composer of the year

Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein; Eagles of the Republic; Jurassic World Rebirth; L’homme qui rétrécit (The Shrinking Man)

Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another

Hildur Guðnadóttir – The Bride!; Hedda; 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

WINNER:  Daniel Pemberton – Project Hail Mary; The Drama; The Bad Guys 2; Masters of the Universe

Max Richter – Hamnet

Television composer of the year

 David Fleming – Widow’s Bay

 Finneas O’Connell – Beef (season two)

 Martin Phipps, Benji Merrison – Steal

 Dave Porter – Pluribus

 WINNER: Jeff Russo – Alien: Earth; Cape Fear; Citadel (season two)

Best original song

WINNER: “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters – written by Kim Eun-jae, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Teddy Park | performed by Huntrix

“House” from Wuthering Heights – written by Charli xcx, John Cale, Nathan Klein, Finn Keane | performed by Charli xcx, John Cale

“No Place Like Home” from Wicked: For Good – written by Stephen Schwartz | performed by Cynthia Erivo

“Stolen Tale” from Hedda – written by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Nia DaCosta | performed by Mariam Wallentin

“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams – written by Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner | performed by Nick Cave

Best original composition by a young composer

WINNER: Xabier Doural García

 Lidia Pozo Perez

 Yeakun Yoo

Discovery of the year

Mari Fukuhara – Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Paris Hurley – The Chronology of Water

Kangding Ray – SIRÀT

WINNER: Hannah Peel – Midwinter Break

Sam Slater – 2000 Meters to Andriivka

Public choice award

 Avatar: Fire and Ash – Simon Franglen

WINNER: Soy Frankelda – Kevin Smithers

 Project Hail Mary – Daniel Pemberton

 Starbright – Ludek Drizhal

 KPop Demon Hunters – Marcelo Zarvos

Game music award

WINNER: Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss – Nicolas Garcia

Crimson Desert – Hwiman Ryu, Inro Joo, Hyoung Woo Roh, Jiyoon Kim, Dongjune Oh

Dispatch – Andrew Arcadi

Marathon – Ryan Lott

UNBEATABLE – rj lake, Vasily Nikolaev, Rachel Lake, and Clara Maddux (D-CELL SOUND TEAM)

Belgian film composer of the year

WINNER:  Margaret Hermant – A la cara (Nothing Personal); Mallorca Confidencial

 Frederik Van de Moortel – De Pupil

 Frédéric Vercheval – Les Tourmentés

Lifetime achievement award

 RECIPIENT: Trevor Jones

Charli xcx brought out a surprise guest during her headlining set at the Austin City Limits Festival.

At Zilker Park on Friday (Oct. 9), Charli welcomed Tinashe to the stage to perform two tracks from the singer’s new album, Popstar, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in early October.

The surprise appearance was teased earlier that day on social media, when Tinashe shared a video on her Instagram Stories of herself and Charli dancing backstage to their 2015 collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign, “Drop That Kitty.”

Tinashe made the live debut of “Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore” and performed the Popstar dance-pop standout “Melatonin.”

Charli also brought out her Sweat Tour mate Troye Sivan during ACL Festival’s opening weekend on Oct. 2, when he performed his songs “Le Boy” and “Party.”

Following their 2015 collaboration on “Drop That Kitty,” Charli and Tinashe reunited in 2024 for a remix of “B2B,” which appeared on the British star’s Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat.

Tinashe is celebrating a career milestone with Popstar, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, marking her highest-charting album to date and her first top 10 appearance on the chart.

“I’m so unbelievably grateful, this is CRAZY! #6 BILLBOARD DEBUT,” she wrote on X following the milestone, adding a string of crying emojis and thanking fans “so soooooo much” for their love and support before signing off with, “I’m cryinggggg.”

Tinashe previously peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 with her 2014 major-lable debut, Aquarius. Her subsequent albums Nightride and Joyride reached Nos. 89 and 58, respectively, while 2024’s Quantum Baby debuted at No. 199.

The 25th anniversary edition of ACL Festival wraps up this weekend with headlining performances by RÜFÜS DU SOL, Lorde, Lola Young and Young Miko on Saturday (Oct. 10), followed by closing sets from Twenty One Pilots, The xx, Geese and Sofi Tukker on Sunday (Oct. 11).

50 Cent might never stop trolling Jay-Z.

As the rapper, actor and film producer has been out and about promoting his upcoming movie Street Fighter, he brought up his longtime rival. During a conversation about influence and power with comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz, his Street Fighter co-star, for Interview magazine, 50 alluded to Jay’s master marketing skills.

“Stability is attractive,” he said when talking about becoming successful and financially stable. “Them looking at you and knowing the financial component is going to take away the pressure they may feel, it almost puts you in a dream sequence. You don’t personally have to be stylish. My stylist has to be stylish. They’re picking out my clothes. And if you got help with what you decided to wear today, how is that not the best version of you? You see what I’m saying? They have an opportunity to meet the best version of you because of the position you’re in. That’s how we see the person’s personality after they settle in.”

However, he then got into how some feel like they need to maintain relevance to be top of mind and randomly used Jay and his oft-talked-about hair as an example. “After they’ve been there for a while, you see who they actually are. And if not, we see the gimmicks,” he said. “We see things like the Basquiat hair. When that comes, you go, ‘No, it was intentionally grown out for a Tiffany ad.’ The puffy hair, cut it off. Go back to young me.”

He then continued by commending Jay’s relationship with touring companies and his ability to change the narrative of his debut album Reasonable Doubt with his recent shows at Yankee Stadium and “The Home & Home Tour” he did with Eminem back in 2010. “If you have a strong enough relationship with the tour companies, they’ll do a touring deal with you because they’re securing the tour deal with Beyoncé,” he said. “When they have to do things to broaden your audience, they may do New York and Detroit. He’s done this before. He’s done the stadium in New York. Him and Em, they matched him up with the biggest rapper in the world like they’re the same. We do your hometown and then my hometown.”

He added: “That’s just to change perception and make him appear as big as Eminem. Bro, the album showed up No. 23 on the chart when it debuted. It was not a f—ing big deal then. Why is it a big deal now? It’s great marketing.”

Schulz then joked around and said producers of their new movie had first reached out to the Brooklyn mogul to play boxer Balrog before they hit 50 up. “Ain’t no motherf—ing way. No, bro,” he replied in disbelief. “He is not working out for nothing. They can’t pay him enough to do some sh– like that.”

During another interview with Today, 50 trolled Jay once again when asked who will perform at his wedding after a brief conversation about how he ended up doing his own performance at Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton’s wedding. “Jay-Z is gonna do my wedding, he’s gonna perform. Him, Kanye too,” he said jokingly. “I’ll have Kanye if he’s not banned at the time. He’ll be there.”

He was also asked about the news that Diddywatched his Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning while in prison, and of course, he answered it in a way only he knows how. “Everyone watched it. It was No. 1 in 31 countries,” 50 replied. “I didn’t expect him to have a jail-broken tablet that was contraband in the actual facility but he got a chance to see it. And look, it’s great. I feel like it was the best documentary that went out on him. It was fair.”

You can check out his Today interview below.

Only a few hours before showtime, Ella Langley has canceled her concert at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s BOK Center on Friday night (Oct. 9) because of “a serious security threat,” according to a statement on the country singer’s Instagram page.

“Due to a serious security threat involving the safety of my fans, venue personnel, and the artist, Ella Langley’s scheduled performance tonight at BOK Center in Tulsa has been canceled,” reads the post that appeared shortly before 5 p.m. CT on both Langley’s and the venue’s socials.

“The safety and well-being of everyone involved is our absolute priority, and, after careful consideration, we have determined that the show cannot proceed. We understand the disappointment this news brings and apologize to fans who planned to attend. The safety of our fans is our foremost concern and will always come first,” the message continues. Ticket refund information will be forthcoming.

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The Tulsa Police Department say that they had swept the area and found no credible threat.

“A sold-out concert was canceled tonight over threats of violence,” reads a statement on the Tulsa Police Department’s Facebook page. “As with any large event, the Tulsa Police Department goes to great lengths to ensure that it is safe for eventgoers and those coming to perform. Before the event, we swept the area with our K-9, Bomb Team, Patrol, and BOK security for anything dangerous. We did not find anything. [Then] a call was made threatening the lives of people attending the event. Out of an abundance of caution, we swept the building and surrounding area and again found no credible threat to the event’s safety. We advised the performer’s staff that we found no credible threat to the event, but they decided to cancel the performance anyway.”

In a Facebook video from the Tulsa PD relaying the same information, Captain Richard Meulenberg went into further detail saying that after the initial routine sweep, a threatening call came in with the caller saying someone was going to bring “great harm to the people at this event in the way of shots fired and bombs, so we came out again in an overabundance of caution,” Meulenberg said. “The person who called this in with a phone call disrupted this event for all these folks.”

The police also asked for the public’s help on its Facebook page: “This incident is under investigation. If you know anything about it that can be helpful and want a cash reward, call Tulsa Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.”

Langley is in the middle of her Dandelion Tour, named after her new album that features “Choosin’ Texas,” which has broken the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 at 24.

In addition to the official post, Langley added, “I know how much time, travel, money, and planning goes into coming to a show, and I can’t tell you how sorry I am. This is not a decision that was made lightly. I was so looking forward to spending tonight with you, but your safety will always mean more to me than anything else. I refuse to put anyone in harm’s way.”

A receptionist at the arena told Billboard, “We’re not able to give a comment to the media at this time.” Billboard has reached out to a marketing representative for Oakview Group, which operates the venue, for further comment, but has not heard back. A rep for Langley had no additional comment beyond Langley’s post.

The police also asked for the public’s help on its Facebook page: “This incident is under investigation. If you know anything about it that can be helpful and want a cash reward, call Tulsa Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.”

Langley’s tour continues Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas, at United Supermarkets Arena, before coming to Los Angeles for two shows at the Greek Theater, Oct. 13-14.