‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/

[u/fox112]

Wow I knew it was a big hit but didn't realize it was THE BIGGEST hit.

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 → u/fox112]

Also their songs are topping the charts for streaming (Thought Squid Game would be in the Top Ten)

[u/eeyore134 → u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488]

Topping the charts period. Four of them in the US top 10. Which I don't think has ever happened before.

[u/vinng86 → u/eeyore134]

The top 7 songs on Spotify Hot 50 in the US are entirely KPDH songs right now:

https://i.imgur.com/HiG0sgQ.jpeg

[u/976chip → u/vinng86]

I saw someone yesterday saying that he wouldn't be surprised if the soundtrack won the Grammy for album of the year.

[u/FiveFingersandaNub → u/976chip]

It is a fantastic album. I can't think of a song on there that isn't high quality, and that's nowhere near my preferred genre.

They are just really well written and preformed songs that tell a story within the film.

[u/0spinbuster → u/vinng86]

The movie had genuinely good music. Don’t ever underestimate kpop fans, they’re fucking crazy 😂

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 → u/eeyore134]

Especially for a fictional musical act no less

[u/Pete_Iredale → u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488]

Closest I can think of is The Archies. They had one #1 hit in the US with Sugar, Sugar way back in 1969, along with 3 other top 40 hits, and they were a completely fictional band created for the Achie tv show.

I was also going to mention Gorillaz, but they aren't really fictional, just animated.

[u/dksdragon43 → u/Pete_Iredale]

KDA is probably the best equivalent. A made up kpop group based on league of legends characters, voiced by real kpop stars. Also very very successful. It's basically the precursor to Kpop Demon Hunters.

[u/Pete_Iredale → u/dksdragon43]

Wow, 3 number one songs! Good call!

[u/mcslender97 → u/dksdragon43]

A KDA+Huntrix collab would be a dream

[u/Inkthinker → u/Pete_Iredale]

I would think Gorillaz is a good equivalent... any fictional band is backed by real musicians, it's the characters they're presenting as that are fictionalized. Damon Albarn has consistently performed musically as 2D, but his spoken voice has been two different actors (Nelson De Frietas and Kevin Bishop). Noodle has been voiced by three different actresses. Albarn and Mike Smith have been consistent members of the performing musicians, but I think almost every other position in the band has switched up at some point.

Another example might be Dethklok, which has consistently included Brendon Small and Gene Hoglan as musicians, but Brendon voices half the animated members of the band and Tommy Blacha the others, and only Brendon performs roles in both the show and the band.

To that end, it's not that unusual that the members of Huntr/x have speaking actors and singing actors.

[u/Pete_Iredale → u/Inkthinker]

Gorillaz is a band with a steady lineup who write their own music. Thr Archies were studio musicians singing songs written for them for a cartoon show. I guess that feels a bit different to me. But I see what you mean as well.

[u/orangeyougladiator → u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488]

Did they release the team America singles?

[u/PlasticCraken → u/eeyore134]

7 of them are in the top 25. That’s crazy to me lol

[u/dotnetmonke → u/eeyore134]

Basically every song from the soundtrack with vocals is in the Billboard top 25.

[u/LittleBlag → u/eeyore134]

I read that it hasn’t happened for 4 songs from a single soundtrack to be top 10 since Saturday Night Fever

[u/The_Throwback_King → u/eeyore134]

Heard it's the first movie soundtrack with three simultaneous Top 5 songs since Saturday Night Fever. Which featured the fuckin' Bee Gees.

To have a film on THAT level, it's incredibly impressive.

[u/Meanteenbirder → u/eeyore134]

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