KPop Demon Hunters has gone up, up, up, and it’s their Golden moment! The animated musical officially became Netflix’s most popular film of all time on the Most Popular English Films list with 236 million total views. KPop Demon Hunters was also the most-watched movie last week, once again taking the No. 1 spot on the English Film list with another 25.4 million views.
This past weekend, fans showed us how it’s done, done, done in theaters all over the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for the KPop Demon Hunters The Sing-Along Event. The film’s soundtrack now holds the distinction of being the first to have four simultaneous Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
And now you can throw your own sing-along party at home with the newly released KPop Hunters Sing-Along version of the film, available to stream now on Netflix.
Audiences continued to tag along on a harrowing night’s journey to raise $25,000 with the desperate Lynette (Vanessa Kirby) in Night Always Comes, which took the No. 2 spot (12.3 million views) on the English Film list. And for a different sort of emotional journey, viewers continued to go weak at the knees for Corey Mylchreest and Sofia Carson and their poetic love story in My Oxford Year, which earned the No. 4 spot (5.9 million views).
In more Corey Mylchreest news, the British political thriller series Hostage took the No. 2 spot on the English TV list (10.8 million views). In Hostage, Mylchreest plays the activist stepson of the president of France (Julie Delpy), who costars alongside Suranne Jones as the British prime minister whose husband has been kidnapped.
Meanwhile, Happy Gilmore 2 proves there’s no time like tee time as it sees its fifth week in the Top 10, landing at No. 6 on the English Film list with 4.5 million views. The film set a new streaming record for the highest single-week viewing total in the history of Nielsen’s Top 10 rankings, pulling in 2.89 billion minutes viewed in its opening weekend.
We’d hate to put Wednesday on a pedestal, since she’s told us she’d burn it down, but the misfit mystery-solver stayed on top of the English TV list for a third week with Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 claiming another 13.4 million views. Fans old and new returned to Wednesday Season 1 as well, putting it at No. 4 (4 million views).
For real-life drama, audiences tuned in to two new docuseries. First, Fit For TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser landed in the No. 3 spot (8.5 million views) as it exposed the decidedly unhealthy behind-the-scenes of America’s most popular weight-loss competition series. Then at No. 9, America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys raked in 1.9 million views as it enthralled viewers with the story of Jerry Jones and his ’90s-era quest to transform the Dallas Cowboys into NFL icons.
On the Non-English Film list, Fall For Me, a steamy and suspenseful erotic drama about a seductive encounter at a club that turns into a twisted web of deception, swooped up to attract the No. 1 spot with 16.5 million views. At No. 2 is Abandoned Man, a Turkish tearjerker that brought in 7.7 million views. Then at No. 3 (1.8 million views), is Gold Rush Gang, an offbeat Thai spaghetti western comedy.
In Non-English TV, audiences were enraptured by In the Mud, putting it at No. 1 on the list with 5.4 million views for the Argentinean drama about five female prisoners who bond over a tragic accident. The gritty Brazilian limited series Rivers of Fate, a tale of kidnapping and the sex trafficking ring investigation that ensues, landed at No. 2 with 5.2 million views. Finally, at No. 4, the quirky new Korean time-travel romance series Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, starring K-pop star Lim Yoon-a, drew in 3.5 million views.
