{"id":144811,"date":"2025-07-06T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=144811"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:57:52","slug":"netflixs-kpop-demon-hunters-breaks-streaming-records-and-rivals-the-barbie-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/netflixs-kpop-demon-hunters-breaks-streaming-records-and-rivals-the-barbie-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters breaks streaming records and rivals the Barbie movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, <strong>Barbie<\/strong>, <strong>Netflix<\/strong>\u2019s KPop squad has arrived! <strong>The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack<\/strong> is making serious noise, jumping from No. 8 to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 in just its second week. With 62,000 equivalent album units earned (up a whopping 97%), it just scored the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack since Barbie\u2019s movie soundtrack in 2023, with around 77 million streams.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1941939481675759700\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 soundtrack earns the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in the US since \u2018Barbie\u2019 in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wtm53Z0OR5\">pic.twitter.com\/wtm53Z0OR5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1941939481675759700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the film&#8217;s premiere on Netflix on June 20, the music took off like a rocket. It now ranks No. 2 on <strong>Top Streaming Albums<\/strong>, beating out every other soundtrack in 2025. That includes Wicked, which had its moment back in January. As of now, KPop Demon Hunters holds the crown for the highest-charting animated movie soundtrack since Encanto back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/intl-es\/album\/14JkAa6IiFaOh5s0nMyMU9?si=v6LXISQzRkKPn0LclRT7eQ\" title=\"Spotify Embed: KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/14JkAa6IiFaOh5s0nMyMU9?si=v6LXISQzRkKPn0LclRT7eQ&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s popularity has been climbing too, reaching No. 2 on Netflix\u2019s U.S. Top 10 Movies by June 29. Between the catchy hooks, massive streaming boost, and unstoppable fan love, KPop Demon Hunters is proving that K-culture domination isn\u2019t slowing down. The movie\u2019s combo of animation, singing, dancing and heartfelt moments is surely paying off with massive music and TV streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Barbie, Netflix\u2019s KPop squad has arrived! The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is making serious noise, jumping from No. 8 to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 in just its second week. With 62,000 equivalent album units earned (up a whopping 97%), it just scored the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack since Barbie\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":144812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1353,2264,16],"tags":[1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-144811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charts","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-netflix"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}