{"id":148023,"date":"2025-09-04T06:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=148023"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:53","slug":"squid-game-loses-the-netflix-crown-to-kpop-demon-hunters-as-the-most-watched-title-on-the-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/squid-game-loses-the-netflix-crown-to-kpop-demon-hunters-as-the-most-watched-title-on-the-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Squid Game loses the Netflix crown to KPop Demon Hunters as the most-watched title on the platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly four years on top, <strong>Squid Game<\/strong> has been dethroned! On September 3, 2025, <strong>Netflix<\/strong> revealed that <strong>KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> hit a jaw-dropping 266 million views, overtaking the Korean sensation as the platform\u2019s most-watched title ever. Released on June 20, 2025, the animated film pulled off this jaw-dropping record in just 74 days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToonHive\/status\/1963279847217561765\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 has now surpassed \u2018Squid Game\u2019 Season 1 to become the most-watched Netflix title of ALL TIME with over 266 MILLION views. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rFQGUWVKAK\">pic.twitter.com\/rFQGUWVKAK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ToonHive (@ToonHive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToonHive\/status\/1963279847217561765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 3, 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>KPop Demon Hunters has become nothing short of a phenomenon in 2025. The film blends K-pop music with demon-slaying action, all delivered with visually stunning animation. The story follows Rumi, a half-demon K-pop star, and her girl group <strong>HUNTR\/X<\/strong> as they battle sinister demons like the antagonist boy group, Saja Boys. The mix of music, fantasy, and animation clearly struck a chord with audiences, who can\u2019t stop streaming the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Squid Game, which debuted on September 17, 2021, has held its crown for years. But the rise of KPop Demon Hunters proves a new power is now dominating worldwide. Meanwhile, Netflix and <strong>Sony<\/strong> are already in talks for a sequel, and with fans begging for more, it looks like this is only the beginning of a new K-pop-fueled era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly four years on top, Squid Game has been dethroned! On September 3, 2025, Netflix revealed that KPop Demon Hunters hit a jaw-dropping 266 million views, overtaking the Korean sensation as the platform\u2019s most-watched title ever. Released on June 20, 2025, the animated film pulled off this jaw-dropping record in just 74 days. KPop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":148024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399,1441],"tags":[3460],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies","9":"category-series","10":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148023","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=148023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148023"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=148023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}