Netflix’s Best New Movie Just Broke Two Shocking Records

Netflix’s Best New Movie Just Broke Two Shocking RecordsByPaul Tassi, Senior Contributor

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More guests Lake Bell, Andrew Garfield, and musical guest Blackpink. (Photo by Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images)CBS via Getty Images The success of Netflix’s best new movie has been unprecedented

No, not by viewership (though it’s good), and no, not by critic and audience scores (though they are great), but the fact that it’s tearing up…music charts

If you’ve been paying attention, that would be KPop Demon Hunters, the animated feature that created two fictional KPop groups who have now broken two separate records over the course of the last day

I reported only yesterday that the boy band from the film, Saja Boys, had just moved past BTS as the most ed KPop group on Spotify

Each group has now set a Spotify KPop record

Girl group HUNTR/X, the heroes of the movie, has surpassed BLACKPINK as the most-ed female KPop Group

And as before, Saja Boys passed BTS

But now both are the highest charting KPop groups ever, both hitting #1 in their respective category

Again, these are fictional groups from a Netflix movie (albeit, of course, with real singers behind them)

KPop Demon HuntersNetflix MORE FOR YOU This is all very ironic because the literal plot of KPop Demon Hunters is a group of global tectors, HUNTR/X, who shield the world from demons with the love of their fans

Saja Boys are demons turned into handsome lads who will siphon away that power if they get more fans, so the main plot point is the two dueling on the charts which is…exactly what’s happening here

I guess we are currently safe from demons

It’s already been widely discussed that the film is going to submit itself for consideration for multiple awards, which could include things Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song at the Oscars and awards for its tracks or the entire album at the Grammys

I’m not quite sure what it might be a frontrunner for, but at the very least, I’d say Animated Feature

KPop Demon HuntersNetflix The playlist is on Spotify here if you want to check out the album, but I would recommend doing so after you’ve watched the actual feature, which isn’t just full of good songs; it’s a great, well-animated movie as well

Netflix has not announced how the KPop Demon Hunter world may expand from here, but its creators are already talking the possibility of future jects in the universe

No doubt they would come with more killer tracks

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