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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ achieves more than 600 million views since 2025 premiere

The hit animated movie is now the biggest title ever of the streaming platform.

On Saturday, June 20, it is exactly a year since KPop Demon Hunters premiered on streaming giant Netflix.

According to the platform, since its release in 2025, the film has amassed more more than 600 million views, making it the most popular original title in Netflix history and the only title ever to spend 52 straight weeks on Netflix’s Global Top 10.

The movie also reached the Top 10 in 93 countries the platform Top 10 lists, with it clinching the number 1 spot in 76 countries.

In the US alone, Netflix said that KPop Demon Hunters was the most-streamed movie of 2025, with a whopping 20.5B viewing minutes according to end-of-year Nielsen data.

The official KPop Demon Hunters Lyric Videos, also pulled in another 32M views worldwide.

Netflix also recorded 1.5 million unique Moments from the movie, with Saja Boys’ performance of the earworm that is Soda Pop  ranking as the most-saved Moment.

Speaking of the official soundtrack, songs also dominated Spotify, Billboard and more to become the unofficial anthem of 2025.

The soundtrack spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard’s 200 Albums, reaching over 15 billion streams worldwide to become the most-streamed soundtrack of the decade. Fans also filled up more than 17,000 playlists worldwide with songs from the soundtrack.

Together, the songs of fictional bands HUNTR/X and Saja Boys have surpassed 1B streams across Spotify and YouTube.

The hit single Golden held the #1 spot on the Billboard Global 200 for 18 weeks, tying for the longest run at #1.

The song also spent eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first ever #1 by a female K-Pop act and the longest-running #1 by a female group of the century.

Moreover, Golden is the fastest track to break into Spotify’s Billions Club, with more than 1 billion streams tl date.

Saja Boys’ Soda Pop, meanwhile, reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of the soundtrack’s record-breaking four simultaneous songs in the Top 10.

Overall, KPop Demon Hunters amassed 4.6B social impressions, including 2.3 billion just for the Golden Official Lyric Video on YouTube, while Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters Roblox experience has generated 11.5 million hours of combined play time.

Golden also won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song at the 2026 Academy Awards, making it the first K-pop song to win an Oscar and the film’s co-director and co-writer Maggie Kang the first woman of Korean descent to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

In addition to its two Golden Globe wins in the same categories, Golden made history at the Grammys as the first K-pop song to win for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Meanwhile, according to Google’s Year in Search for 2025, KPop Demon Hunters was the #1 movie, had three of the top 10 songs of the year and was the #2 overall trending search.

The film also claimed all five spots on the top five most-searched Halloween costumes in 2025, according to Google Trends.

Since then, the has seen its presence expanded to various merchandise items, with partnerships with multiple brands for different products across categories around the world.

Among these are the new LEGO Derpy Tiger and Sussie Bird set and toys from Mattel, Hasbro and Jazwares, which be available at participating online retailers beginning June 22 around the world.

A new KPop Demon Hunters experience has also been launched in Netflix Playground, made up of six mobile minigames that immerse players in the hit songs from the movie through DJ mixing, a Honmoon Beats rhythm game, jigsaw puzzles, stickers and more.

And with the success of the movie, Netflix has announced a global concert tour coming in 2027, with dates and other details yet to be disclosed.


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