The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack surges 8-3 in its second week on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 12), changing into the highest-charting soundtrack of 2025. Beforehand amongst soundtracks in 2025, Depraved reached a No. 4 excessive in January, after debuting and peaking at No. 2 in December 2024.
Additional, KPop Demon Hunters turns into the highest-charting soundtrack to an animated movie since Encanto spent 9 weeks at No. 1 in 2022.
KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 on Netflix alongside its soundtrack. Within the monitoring week ending June 29, KPop Demon Hunters jumped 6-2 in its second week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new July 12, 2025-dated chart will likely be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on July 8.
Within the monitoring week ending July 3, the KPop Demon Hunters album earned 62,000 equal album items (up 97%), in accordance with Luminate. Of that sum, SEA items comprise 56,000 (up 108%, equaling 77.42 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it jumps 10-2 on High Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 4,500 (up 31%, it’s pushed down 18-22 on High Album Gross sales) and TEA items comprise 1,500 (up 24%).
The set’s haul of 77.42 million streams for its songs is the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in almost two years — for the reason that Barbie soundtrack claimed 79.32 million on the Aug. 19, 2023-dated chart (its third week on the chart).
