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Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters has been at the top of the streamer's charts ever since it debuted in 2025, and to make a pretty obvious reference, I don't think they're ready for a takedown.

That's the story that comes out of Netflix's official blog, which has recently revealed that the animated musical action movie has spent a whopping 52 weeks in the Top Ten Global movies, meaning that Earth has gone an entire rotation around the sun without the film dipping from its coveted spot. I probably don't have to tell you that this sets a record for the Netflix entry, but you might be surprised to learn that it has more than doubled the streak of the previous record holder for longest time in the spot.

That was 2022's Extraordinary Attorney Woo, the South Korean legal drama starring Park Eun-bin that spent a (still impressive!) 20 weeks in the Global Top Ten. According to the Netflix blog, KPop Demon Hunter's shattering of this record means that it is "Netflix’s most-watched title ever, and on track to be its biggest franchise ever."

A quick glance at the All-Time Most Popular Movies on the Global Top Ten list appears to prove the streamer's assertion correct. As of June 22, 2026, KPop Demon Hunters has been viewed just over 325M times, accounting for almost 542M hours watched since its debut. For context, that's over 95M more views than the film that holds the second place spot on the all-time list, the Gal Gadot/Dwayne Johnson-starring Red Notice from 2021. 

With a sequel officially on the way, we genuinely wonder what it would take for the film's continuing buzz to dip enough to get it out of the Global Top Ten. On the one hand, they say that nothing gold can stay, but then again, maybe something Golden can. 

KPop Demon Hunters is streaming now on Netflix.

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