There are only so many records KPop Demon Hunters can break, with many at actual award shows like the Oscars or on the Billboard charts, but loads of them are on Netflix itself. But KPop Demon Hunters may have just set its final record, according to new Netflix data.
KPop Demon Hunters is Netflix’s first movie ever to spend an entire year on its top 10 list. It has now spent 52 weeks in a row somewhere on the Netflix top 10 list, at least one day of each week. This, of course, was after a record run at #1, and also the record for the number of consecutive days on the list. After this, it seems like there are probably no more worlds to conquer for the movie, at least until the sequel.
Second place for the most time spent on the top 10 list is All Quiet on the Western Front, spending 17 weeks on the list overall, but it is not on the top 10 list for the first 90 days of viewing. That’s a list we can also reference. Here those are, with of course, KPop Demon Hunters holding the all-time record by a mile:
- KPop Demon Hunters – 325 million views
- Red Notice – 230 million views
- Carry-On – 172 million views
- Don’t Look Up – 171 million views
- The Adam Project – 157 million views
- Bird Box – 157 million views
- Back in Action – 147 million views
- Leave the World Behind – 143 million views
- War Machine – 139 million views
- The Gray Man – 139 million views
Again, this is only the first 90 days of viewership, but Netflix has gone out of its way to talk about overall figures, celebrating when it hit 500 million views, and current estimates put it somewhere around 640 million views. Its soundtrack has 15 billion streams, the most-streamed soundtrack of this current decade.
KPop Demon Hunters is now currently in its “merch” era, with a sequel not able to arrive probably until 2030 or so, due to how long this sort of animation, scripting, and in this case, songwriting. Netflix did loads of deals with loads of brands, ranging from Mattel and Hasbro to McDonald’s Happy Meal toys. It took a while, pretty much this entire past year, to spool all this up, given just how fast the movie took off and how no one saw this level of fame coming. Fortnite, for instance, was forced to throw together a skin collaboration for the movie in just two months, wildly shorter than anything else it’s done.
KPop Demon Hunters still isn’t fading significantly, it’s just entering a new phase, and this 52-week stretch isn’t done. But at this point, it’s not clear what Netflix records of milestones it hasn’t reached, and we will have to wait for the sequel for more.
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