‘KPop Demon Hunters’ movie holds its own atop music and movie charts

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After becoming a cultural phenomenon, Netflix movie ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ continues to make waves. ‘Golden’ hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the movie’s soundtrack boasts over 3 billion global streams to date.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/kpop-demon-hunters-music-movie-charts-top/

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00:00After becoming a cultural phenomenon, Netflix movie K-pop Demon Hunters continues to make

00:07waves. Golden hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the movie's soundtrack boasts over

00:13three billion global streams to date. K-pop Demon Hunters debuted on the streaming platform on June

00:1820. It follows a trio of demon hunters who perform K-pop music to impress fans and combat demons.

00:24Lead singer, South Korean artist EJ, says she poured everything she knew about popular Korean

00:29music into the project. I just love how Golden is a very hopeful song, so not just America but

00:35globally everyone's resonating with it. It feels like we're all connecting together. Arden Cho,

00:40who voices lead character Rumi, is surprised by audience reactions to the movie's music.

00:45She says, Someone was saying that Huntrix's voices were AI because it's so good. No, we're real,

00:52we're here. Fictional K-pop girl group Huntrix achieved enormous real-life success.

00:57As other songs, How It's Done, What It Sounds Like, and Free, also ranked in the top 10 most

01:02streamed songs for the week, ending on August 14. A sing-along version of K-pop Demon Hunters

01:08topped the domestic box office over the weekend in what appears to be a historic first for streaming

01:13giant Netflix.

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