'KPop Demon Hunters' breaks viewership records to become Netflix's most-watched film ever

The hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters has become the most-streamed movie in Netflix history, according to the streamer. 

Released in June, the animated action-musical about a fictional K-pop girl band Huntr/x whose three members secretly protect the world from demons, has been watched more than 236 million times.  

This means that the surprise hit of the summer has overtaken the action comedy Red Notice, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, to Netflix’s top spot. The 2021 movie raked up a total of 230.9 million views.

If you were wondering, rounding out the top five list of films on Netflix’s most-streamed list are last year’s Carry-On (172.1 million views), 2021’s Don’t Look Up (171.4 million views) and 2022’s The Adam Project (157.6 million views). 

As if that wasn’t enough, the songs from KPop Demon Hunters have also been some of the most streamed online on Spotify, and Billboard said the soundtrack has broken a record to become the first to ever chart four simultaneous top 10 songs – 'Golden', 'Your Idol', 'Soda Pop' and 'How It's Done'. 

Impressive but hardly surprising, as some of the soundtrack's producers and songwriters have previously worked with K-pop royality, like the bands BTS and Twice. 

Still, this has made Huntr/x the highest charting female K-pop group in US Spotify history - surpassing real-life K-pop band BLACKPINK. 

Netflix has capitalized on the songs’ popularity by releasing a sing-along version of the movie in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand last weekend. This version earned Netflix its first number one film at the US box office.

As you can imagine, there are already talks of a sequel.