{"id":745079,"date":"2026-06-18T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:10:09","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-has-spent-one-year-on-netflixs-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745079\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Has Spent One Year On Netflix&#8217;s Top 10 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tToday marks the first anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kpop-demon-hunters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kpop-demon-hunters\" data-tag=\"kpop-demon-hunters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> release, and the streamer said today that the animated flick has spent every week since then on its top 10 most-watched list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe streamer said the film has clocked 600M views since its debut and hit the top 10 in all 93 countries where the streamer has top 10 lists. Boosted by its catchy tunes, the film\u2019s soundtrack spent two weeks at number one on Billboard\u2019s 200 Albums chart. And Netflix said today the soundtrack\u2019s haul led to over 15B streams worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, the movie follows Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo), young-adult pop stars in a group called Huntr\/x whose ancient demon-slayer lineage has them moonlighting as demon hunters when they aren\u2019t selling out stadiums and topping charts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen their biggest demonic enemy (Lee Byung-hun) encourages the formation of an equally popular K-pop boy band aimed at stealing the souls of their fans, the trio has to fight harder than ever to hold the demons at bay while keeping their friendship intact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier this year, Netflix confirmed that a KPop Demon Hunters sequel is in the works, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/maggie-kang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kang<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-appelhans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Appelhans<\/a> returning as directors. Sony Pictures Animation will produce the feature. The studio was also behind the first film, which won two Oscars, including Best Animated Feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today marks the first anniversary of Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters release, and the streamer said today that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,28936,344,435],"class_list":["post-745079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-movies","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}