Netflix’s newest global hit just keeps going “up, up, up!” The past year at the streamer has been a big one, with series and movies like Adolescence, Wednesday, and Happy Gilmore 2 making waves on the streaming charts, but none of those have come close to the biggest title of the year. After becoming Netflix’s biggest original movie ever released, a smash animated musical that debuted on Netflix back in June just shattered another streaming record – and it’s unlikely that another movie will ever touch it.
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KPop Demon Hunters has now officially surpassed 500 million hours watched, cementing the film’s status as one of the biggest titles to ever join Netflix. According to Tudum, the smash movie, about fictional K-pop superstars and demon hunters Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo), has logged more than 541 million hours viewed and 325 million views. Those numbers put the movie far above the next highest-ranking film, the Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot-starring action comedy Red Notice, which has charted 454 million hours watched and 230 million views since its 2021 debut.
At this rate, with KPop Demon Hunters becoming an absolute global sensation and Netflix subscribers continuing to repeatedly watch it, it will be hard for another title to even come close to the same heights.
KPop Demon Hunters Can’t Stop Breaking Records
KPop Demon Hunters has become a major surprise hit for Netflix, and nothing seems to be slowing it down. The movie, originally produced by Sony before the studio sold the distribution rights to Netflix for a direct-to-streaming release, was released in June and became an instant bona fide megahit, and its new viewership high is just the latest in a series of chart-topping achievements.
By July, KPop Demon Hunters had become Netflix’s most-watched animated original film. Just a month later, the movie earned the title of the most popular Netflix film of all time when it reached more than 236 million views. The movie also became Netflix’s first movie to reach No. 1 at the box office when it grossed between $18 million and $20 million during a limited theatrical release. But the film’s record-breaking success extends beyond Netflix, with KPop Demon Hunters even making Billboard history with four simultaneous top 10 hits for HUNTR/X’s “Golden” and “How It’s Done” and Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop.”
With the movie leaving a trail of records in its wake and continuing to add more to the list, the smash hit of the summer seems poised to hold most of those titles, including Netflix’s most popular film. The streamer has a slate of upcoming movie releases that are highly anticipated, including Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and while those will undoubtedly be popular titles that break into the Top 10 streaming charts, it’s unlikely they’ll have the same wide-sweeping and lasting appeal as KPop Demon Hunters. Currently, the only title that may even be able to come close to reaching KPop Demon Hunters is the planned sequel, though it will still be some time before that film releases.
KPop Demon Hunters is now streaming on Netflix alongside KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along and the recently added KPop Demon Hunters Lyric Videos.
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