KPop Demon Hunters
Netflix
Once we passed the six-month milestone, I figured the end was in sight. Not so, and Netflix’s megahit, KPop Demon Hunters, has tacked on an additional month where it has not left the top 10 list. Seven months have passed since its release on June 20, 2025.
As we speak, KPop Demon Hunters is #7 on Netflix’s top 10 list, and it usually bounces between #5 and #8 whenever I check. I think it dipped to #9 once or twice, and made it back to the top 3 a few times.
Why? It’s not only good, but it’s endlessly rewatchable, particularly for kids. My son alone has watched it at least five times, and multiply that across every kid in America (or the world, for that matter), and you get the idea. It seemed a little goofy when, early on, Netflix declared that KPop Demon Hunters was its “Frozen” IP, but given that kids are watching it on repeat, exactly like Frozen, and singing its songs (arguably way, way better songs) endlessly, the comparison makes perfect sense.
The last KPop Demon Hunters milestone we heard was that it passed 500 million views in 2025. In its first 90 days, the chart that tracks that milestone made it Netflix’s most viewed movie of all time, with almost 100 million more than the previous #1, Red Notice, and 150 million more than the previous #2, Carry-On. It’s not even close. Most recently, KPop Demon Hunters just won a Golden Globe for Best Original Feature and Best Original Song for Golden. It seems more than a little likely that it could win the Oscar in both categories. (If there was any justice in the world, it would at least get a Best Picture nomination).
Netflix seems almost overwhelmed with the success of KPop Demon Hunters to the point where it’s struggling a bit to capitalize. It is trying to crank out merchandise quickly, but you’ll notice little, if any, in your local stores, since that takes a lot of time, and no one thought the movie would be this big. A sequel to the movie is at least four years away, and there are no announcements about any related projects in the interim yet (a short film has been rated for release, but we’ve heard nothing official about it).
One problem with KPop Demon Hunters being Netflix’s Frozen? It was never in theaters for more than a sing-along weekend. Frozen made $1.2 billion at the box office. Frozen 2 made $1.4 billion. Who knows how much KPop Demon Hunters would have brought in were it not chained to Netflix streaming? In pitching its upcoming potential purchase of Warner Bros., Netflix maintains it will not yank all those movies out of theaters to make them streaming-only, so I wonder if that means they may open some of their own hits to theaters. It would kind of be insane to me not to release KPop Demon Hunters 2 in theaters.
So, can KPop Demon Hunters stay on Netflix’s top 10 list for a year? That seems like a tall order, but if you told me we’d be here six months ago, I would have laughed. The power of HUNTR/X is real.
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