KPop Demon Hunters was released on June 20, and while it scored a pretty modest debut of 9.2 million views, it pulled in a massive 25.8 million views for the week of July 14 to July 20, according to Netflix's own data. That's up from the week before (24.2 million), and up from the week before that, too (22.7 million).

KPop, on the other hand, is part of a much larger story directors/co-writers Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans have hyped up through various interviews. As if the Sony Pictures Animation production couldn’t be popular enough, the adventures of Huntr/x have set a new Netflix record so specific, I’m shocked we haven’t heard a sequel announcement.

KPop Demon Hunters will not leave #1 on Netflix for more than a day or two, and now it's setting even more records for a movie on the service.

KPop Demon Hunters, released June 20 and, at 80 million views, one of Netflix’s biggest animated films ever with chart-topping music to boot, had co-CEO Ted Sarandos singing its praises today. The film “is a phenomenal success out of the gate.

Maggie Kang, a director of the hit along with Chris Appelhans, was “just trying to make something that I wanted to see: a movie that celebrated Korean culture.”

Since June, the group has blown up in America with an album at No. 3 on Billboard and a hit single climbing up the Hot 100. It’s a particularly impressive feat for a group that isn’t actually “real,” instead hailing from Netflix ‘s animated musical,