Holy Crap, So Many Individuals Watched ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Final 12 months

If the fifth season of Stranger Issues taught us something, it’s that Netflix can’t always please everyone, regardless of all the ability, cash, and affect the corporate has at its fingertips. Nonetheless, there’s one large exception that may’t be denied: KPop Demon Hunters, which amassed a delighted following of glad prospects so enormous, it has up to now racked up extra views than two of the streamer’s largest TV hits: Stranger Issues season 5 and Wednesday season two.

The Wrap did the mathematics on this one, reporting that since KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20, it has “tallied up a whopping 481.6 million views in the course of the second half of 2025, standing because the most-watched title throughout movie and TV in the course of the six-month interval.” These numbers imply the movie did higher than each Wednesday season two (“the most-watched TV present in the course of the second half of 2025 with 123.9 million views”) and Stranger Issues 5, “which took the No. 2 spot on the TV aspect with 93.5 million views.”

The commerce notes the Stranger Issues numbers don’t account for “residual viewing” of the Stranger Issues finale, which arrived on New 12 months’s Eve, and certain pulled in additional views early in 2026.

Even so, 481.6 million views is a staggering triumph for the hour-and-40-minute movie. You possibly can think about KPop‘s possible presence on the Oscars—a Greatest Tune dwell efficiency seems like a given—will entice much more eyeballs within the coming months.

Netflix has another outrageous numbers maintaining it comfortable as we speak, whilst its Warner Bros. deal continues to resist pesky Paramount interference. Variety writes that the streamer introduced it surpassed 325 million subscribers, lots of whom presumably watched KPop Demon Hunters no less than as soon as, within the remaining quarter of 2025. Netflix additionally plans to spend $20 billion on originals this yr, up from $18 billion final yr, and develop its library of licensed content material.

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