‘KPop Demon Hunters’ makes all-time Netflix history
KPop Demon Hunters came to slay. So, it did. But in ways, even Netflix didn’t expect. While it was already the most-watched animated film of all time, the film is now officially the most popular Netflix film of all time.
The global sensation has thrown dust on every existing Netflix competitor, with over 236million views garnered to date. It has surpassed Netflix’s previous chart-topping sensation, Red Notice, starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, which had 230.9million views.
The Netflix film, produced in collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation, the studio credited with blockbusters like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs The Machines, is currently the wolf-pack leader of Netflix’s all-time chart. Succeeding the trailblazer is the action-comedy, Red Notice, followed by Jason Bateman’s Christmas punch-fest, Carry-On.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Don’t Look Up and Reynolds’s The Adam Project round out the top five of Netflix’s most popular movies of all time.
The news comes hot on the heels of the theatrical rollout of the sing-along version of KPop Demon Hunters, which topped the North American weekend box office on Saturday, August 23rd, and Sunday, August 24th.
KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along, currently streaming globally on Netflix, had over 1,300 sold-out screenings across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Even the chart-topping soundtrack continues to crush the Billboard chart, as the first soundtrack to have four adjacent top ten tracks on the Hot 100 chart.
KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) is also ranked two on the Billboard 200 in the week ending August 23rd, having amassed more than three billion streams across the globe till now. In the week dated August 18th to August 25th, the film has once again peaked at the top of the global charts, having spent ten consecutive weeks on the top ten charts.
This week alone, KPop Demon Hunters has garnered 25.4m views, underscoring its international popularity despite having spent weeks. Although it’s natural for movies to fall out of favour after a certain period of time, it’s presently the number one film in 32 countries.