KPop Demon Hunters
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, a bunch of girls singing songs slay demons singing other songs and everyone loses their minds.
Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters is the streaming success story of the summer, not just because of its viewership, but because of what it’s done in the music industry, of all places. Sure, we’ve seen songs and soundtracks perform well, but this is a film that has spit out #1 hits and KPop records from boy and girl groups who are…entirely fictional. The movie’s HUNTR/X took away records from Blackpink. The Saja Boys beat out BTS. Just astonishing stuff, and we are still seeing tracks reach new highs far after release.
The movie itself? Just as impressive. KPop Demon Hunters has been out for just under a month and it has rarely left the top two spots in the US Netflix Top 10 list, and most of the time it’s been #1.
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I’ve watched this for weeks now, and what happens is that a big new movie will come along with a splash, hit #1, then a day or two later fall down the list and there’s KPop Demon Hunters in the top spot again. Just browsing now, former #1 The Old Guard 2 is down to #5 while past contenders have fallen away entirely. Currently, the new Tyler Perry Madea movie has dropped at #1, so KPop is at #2, but it stands to reason this exact some scenario may play out yet again.
KPop Demon Hunters may not get the overall consecutive #1 record. Films like Carry-On and Don’t Look Up have it beat. But in terms of pure stamina, you rarely see films like this stay this high, and if they do come along and get dethroned, don’t fall down the list, manage to rise back up and take #1 again over and over and over. And it just hasn’t stopped as we now approach a month after release.
The question now is what happens from here, other than millions and millions more streams of these songs. The obvious answer is a sequel, but I fully believe Netflix now views this as a “universe” already. A sequel, two, a prequel, a spin-off, a TV series, a live-action adaptation. Okay well, none of those have been announced, but I’ll be damned if we don’t get two or three of them.
I’m not sure if I need to say this explicitly but yes, watch KPop Demon Hunters. You don’t need to be a teenage girl. You don’t need to like KPop. You need to like good movies and…well okay you need to like KPop a little bit. Or maybe this will serve as your gateway.
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