Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Coming to a Theater Near You

Netflix’s animated film ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is heading to theaters for a special sing-along event. After rapidly becoming one of the most-watched films on Netflix, the animated musical will now screen in select theaters across the United States and Canada on August 23 and 24.

Fans can join live crowds to sing along with iconic fictional K-pop groups HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys. Tickets for this limited two-day event go on sale today and are available via the official website. The enthusiasm driving this theatrical release is matched only by the film’s remarkable soundtrack success.

The single “Golden” performed by Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami as the movie’s HUNTR/X band made history by reaching the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This achievement marks the first time a female K-pop group has claimed the top spot on the chart, and it comes with impressive numbers—nearly 32 million US streams, 7,000 sales, and over 8.4 million radio airplay impressions in a single week. The single “Golden” is is also the first #1 on the Hot 100 chart by a fictional band since “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from the animated film Encanto.

Of course, the accolades for this soundtrack don’t end there. The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ album soared to #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, logging its best week yet with 100,000 equivalent album units and dominating the Billboard Soundtracks chart for seven weeks straight. It is recognized as the highest-charting animated film soundtrack since the release of Encanto (2022), outpacing even the Barbie soundtrack’s performance on streaming platforms.

Every main song from the album—such as “Your Idol” (Saja Boys), “How It’s Done,” and “Soda Pop”—has entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Meanwhile on Spotify, the soundtrack has broken multiple streaming records. Both “Golden” and “Your Idol” set a new precedent by surpassing the streaming peaks previously held by K-pop supergroups BTS and Blackpink on the US Spotify Daily Top Songs chart. The album has already exceeded three billion global streams, with a single-day high of 8.5 million streams recorded on June 22, 2025. These statistics make the soundtrack not only the highest-charting K-pop project ever on US Spotify, but also the most dominant soundtrack globally in the past year.

The mass appeal of ‘KPop Demon Hunters‘—in both its storyline about idol stars moonlighting as demon fighters and its authentic, expertly produced K-pop music—has turned the franchise into a cultural force. Netflix’s strategy of pairing global theater screenings with chart-topping soundtracks is giving Disney and other major studios a run for their money in the family musical animated genre.