{"id":249062,"date":"2026-01-21T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/249062\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:32:08","slug":"kpopdemon-hunters-breaks-more-netflix-records-what-we-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/249062\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop’Demon Hunters’ Breaks More Netflix Records: What We Watched"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> didn\u2019t already cement itself as a cultural phenom, Netflix<\/a>\u2018s latest biannual engagement report seals the deal by proclaiming the animated feature the streamer\u2019s most-watched title ever over a six-month period.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second half of last year, KPop Demon Hunters amassed 482 million views, according to Netflix\u2019s latest What We Watched<\/a>\u00a0report (released twice a year with the company\u2019s Q2 and Q4 earnings reports), which details viewing across every Netflix title from July-December 2025. That doesn\u2019t even include the film\u2019s first 10 days of viewing following its June 20 premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix also reports that the KPop Demon Hunters Lyric Videos raked in an additional 32M views, further illustrating the unprecedented popularity of the film, which just took home multiple Golden Globes<\/a> and other awards and is widely considered to be a strong Oscar contender.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor context, Happy Gilmore 2, which premiered a month later on July 25, collected 135.1M views globally through December after having the biggest U.S. opening weekend ever for a Netflix film<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\n\tOn the series side, the most-watched title was Wednesday<\/a> Season 2. The second season began rolling out August 6 and tallied 123.9M views through the end of the year. Season 1 ranked No. 8 among all shows on Netflix in H2 2025 with 47M views.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite such a limited window to accumulate views, Stranger Things 5 soared to second place among series for the second half of 2025 with 93.5M views. This only includes the first few hours of the series finale<\/a>\u2018s availability after it debuted at 8 p.m. ET on New Year\u2019s Eve, and it doesn\u2019t encapsulate the entire premiere window for any of the three volumes in Season 5, so expect Stranger Things to remain pretty high on the charts when Netflix releases this data for the first half of 2026 with the Q2 earnings report in Jul<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first two seasons of Stranger Things also found themselves among the Top 10 shows on Netflix, with Season 1 nabbing No. 5 with 57M views and Season 2 settling at No. 10 with 45M views.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Netflix Edges Wall Street\u2019s Q4 Estimates, Says Ad Revenue Topped $1.5B In 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAs expected, the final season of Squid Game also appeared high on the list, since the previous engagement report only captured about three days of viewing<\/a> for Season 3 after its June 27 premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis report also makes it clear why Untamed, which initially was planned as a limited series, is getting a second season<\/a>. The first installment blew past some pretty tough competition to secure third place among series for the second half of the year with 92.8M views from its July 17 premiere through the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan Murphy also made his presence known with the latest installment of his Monster series. The Ed Gein Story landed at No. 6 with 56M views in the final two months of the year, following its October 3 premiere. And despite premiering on December 2, just a few weeks before the end of the measurement period, Sean Combs: The Reckoning scored 50.8M views, making it the seventh most-watched series in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Netflix Switches To All-Cash Bid For Warner Bros.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAs always, the biggest caveat to all of this data is that this only encapsulates the most recent six months of viewing on Netflix, which can only paint so much of a picture. To get a broader understanding of the streamer\u2019s year, see what interested Netflix viewers in the first half of 2025<\/a>, which was led by Adolescence and Back in Action.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn total, Netflix viewers watched 96 billion hours of content from July to December, up 1 billion from the first half of the year, the streamer says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If KPop Demon Hunters didn\u2019t already cement itself as a cultural phenom, Netflix\u2018s latest biannual engagement report seals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,1729,409,400,12293,7128,133059],"class_list":{"0":"post-249062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-tv-ratings","15":"tag-wednesday","16":"tag-what-we-watched"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}