Audrey Nuna has dropped the bold new single ‘superHuman’ – her first solo release in two years.
The single is the first solo release from the Grammy-nominated Korean-American artist and songwriter since she dropped ‘Trench’ in 2024, and reached new artistic heights by providing the singing voice of Mira in the hit film KPop Demon Hunters.
Now looking to channel that momentum back into her own music, she has released the standalone single via Republic Records, and it embraces themes of redemption, validation and more.
Made alongside renowned producer Cirkut (Rihanna, Lady Gaga), ‘superHUman’ keeps with Nuna’s theme of blending genres, and incorporates bold nods to rap, pop, and R&B as she belts the line “Hey world, hit me with whatever you got”.
“‘SuperHuman’ is a portal,” the singer shared. “I wrote this song in a time in my life where a lot was changing very quickly, and I felt more perceived by the world than I ever had before.
“I wanted to capture that feeling – of redemption, of validation, of the tides finally turning. In the same breath, I wanted to quietly remind myself and others to stay human, stay open, to flow like water through all of the changes and that being more human will always be a superpower if we allow it.”
The single comes in collaboration with Riot Games and marks Nuna’s second collaboration with VALORANT – serving as an official track for the 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour.
Last month, Nuna launched her solo live show at Rock in Rio Lisboa, and since then has gone on to make appearances at Summerfest, Open’er Festival, Roskilde Festival, Ruisrock and more.
The live shows continue this month with two shows at Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival, a slot at Frequency Festival in Austria, and Pukkelpop in Belgium. Visit here for tickets.
Back in 2021, Nuna spoke to NME for a feature, and was praised as “modern R&B’s new visionary cooking up a storm”. Explaining why she wanted to integrate elements of rap into her music, she explained: “Sometimes there’s a lot of words that I want to say. When you’re writing a melody you have to fit what you’re trying to say into a concise amount.”
That same year, her album ‘A Liquid Breakfast’ dropped and was given a glowing four-star review from NME.
“Pushing creative boundaries is an important part of Audrey Nuna’s artistry and ‘A Liquid Breakfast’ puts her under the spotlight as someone with both fresh ideas and the talent to make them glow,” it read. “‘Everybody knows my name, what you want?’ she spits at one point on ‘Damn Right’, a satire about people’s love of talking shit. It might be sarcasm on the track but, in reality, it’s a statement that seems destined to come true.”
As for Kpop Demon Hunters, the huge success of the film has continued for over a year now, and it was recently confirmed that it has been watched more than twice as many times as Netflix‘s next most popular film.
It amassed a further 130million views during the first half of 2026 alone, has inspired sold-out singalong screenings, a McDonald’s collaboration, a forthcoming Criterion Blu-ray and plans for a global concert tour.
A sequel has also been confirmed, although it is not currently expected to arrive until 2029.
The film contained the hit single ‘Golden’, which NME included among the 50 best songs of 2025, praising the track’s “melodic potency” and its ability to stand out amid the year’s abundance of viral hits.
In May, the singing stars of KPop Demon Hunters offered an emotional rebuke of the music industry while accepting the Women Of The Year award at the 2026 Billboard Women In Music event.
“From when I first started releasing music back in 2019 to this moment now, I really never identified with the boxes that Korean American women were expected to fit into. And quite frankly, I didn’t even know how to even begin to try to fit into those boxes,” Nuna shared.
“So to receive this honour and represent a song in a film that affirms this notion that the world needs women to show up as their fullest, most whole selves, their weirdest selves, their smelliest selves, whatever it is, it’s rewarding beyond words.”
