Two months after “KPop Demon Hunters” debuted on Netflix, the animated motion musical stays the streamer’s greatest title, even surpassing “Purple Discover” to turn out to be the streamer’s most-watched English-language film of all time.
With 236 million whole views, the movie’s climb to the highest has been gradual however regular. It additionally displays what’s distinctive concerning the title, in a means that signifies why there’s no signal the phenomenon is anyplace close to over.
“Demon Hunters” delivered simply 9.2 million views on Netflix its first week earlier than greater than doubling its viewership to succeed in 24.2 million and 22.7 million views, respectively, in its second and third. It has hovered round 24-26 million views ever since, most just lately reaching 25.4 million views through the week of Aug. 11.
With viewership for this previous week solely down 2% from the earlier, the trajectory for “KPop Demon Hunters” shouldn’t be one skilled by typical Netflix unique film hits, which, most of the time, make a flashy however fleeting increase.
It’s that consistency that makes the movie a little bit of a viewership unicorn, relative to titles that opened to an even bigger viewers however subsequently light.
“Purple Discover,” for instance, which “KPop Demon Hunters” kicked to second place on Tuesday, debuted to a staggering 148.72 million hours considered again in November 2021 and adopted it up with 129.11 million hours in its second week. The movie then dropped to 50.65 million hours within the third week, and roughly half that in its fourth.
Likewise, the Millie Bobby Brown-led motion flick “Damsel” debuted to 35.3 million views and grew to 50.8 million in its second week, earlier than dropping right down to 19.5 million in its third. “Damsel” didn’t seem within the prime 10 weekly film checklist after its fifth week on Netflix.
Maybe the endurance of “KPop Demon Hunters” may be finest in comparison with “Wednesday,” which has the same family-driven enchantment. Season 1 has spent 24 weeks in Netflix’s prime 10 checklist — viewership that boosted it to turn out to be the most-watched English-language present up to now — and Season 2 has maintained its reign atop the TV checklist for the three weeks since its launch. The remaining 4 episodes of Season 2 will drop Sept. 3, which is able to certainly maintain it on prime for the near-future.
Whereas Netflix doesn’t share demographic data, it’s secure to imagine “KPop Demon Hunters” has taken benefit of the ability of repeat viewing by younger kids, just like youngsters present “Ms. Rachel,” which grew to become the seventh most-watched Netflix sequence within the first half of 2025 with simply 4 episodes accessible.
And, in fact, “KPop Demon Hunters” defies the everyday viewership of Netflix’s previous unique animated movies, which haven’t sometimes risen to the highest of the most-watched lists, in the event that they even enter the highest 10 in any respect.
Whereas its streaming attain is plain, “KPop Demon Hunters” additionally demonstrated its clout by giving Netflix its first No. 1 end on the field workplace throughout its two-day restricted run.
With a sing-along model of the film hitting Netflix this week and a sequel additionally within the works, “KPop Demon Hunters” is doing something however slowing down.
Behind Netflix’s cancellation of “The Waterfront”
Kevin Williamson’s “The Waterfront” was canceled this week, two months after its June 19 launch, regardless of faring simply as effectively ratings-wise corresponding to sequence that Netflix renewed. “The Waterfront” debuted to eight.3 million views and grew to 11.6 million in its second week, finally staying in Netflix’s prime 10 checklist for 5 weeks — outpacing viewership for renewed sequence “Ransom Canyon,” which scored 7.2 million and 9.4 million views, respectively, and solely stayed within the prime 10 for 4 weeks.
Whereas “The Waterfront” scored robust sufficient viewership to advantage one other season, being produced outdoors of Netflix (“The Waterfront” is produced by Common Tv) may’ve pushed the usual for renewal even larger. That stated, one other, Common TV-produced sequence, “A Man on the Inside,” didn’t attain a a lot greater viewers on Netflix, premiering to six.9 million views and staying within the prime 10 for 5 weeks.
Maybe Common TV comedies “A Man on the Inside” and “4 Seasons” match into Netflix’s cozy comedy technique higher than “The Waterfront” match into the drama slate.
“The Huge Bang Concept” hits a resurgence
The Warner Bros.-produced sitcom has been slowly gearing up for a resurgence on HBO Max. The sequence jumped from the No. 9 slot on Nielsen’s acquired streaming exhibits checklist to No. 2 through the week of July 21, and hit No. 6 general with 777 million minutes considered.
The viewership bump coincides with current information that sequel sequence “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” was greenlit at HBO Max.
“GMA” maintains viewership dominance
“Good Morning America” ranked because the most-watched morning newscast in whole viewers for the twenty fifth week in a row, averaging 2.57 million viewers through the week of Aug. 18. Along with outpacing NBC’s “In the present day” by 183,000 whole viewers, “GMA” additionally noticed a slight uptick in viewers from the earlier week.
