Overview
- The album rose from No. 3 to its highest Billboard 200 position at No. 2 in its third week, earning 75,000 equivalent album units, up 21% week-over-week.
- Streaming equivalent album units accounted for 70,000 of the total, driven by 96.33 million on-demand official streams—the strongest week for a soundtrack since 2022.
- Only four soundtracks in the 2020s—including Wicked, Barbie and Encanto—have reached the top two on the Billboard 200, and this is the first to post consecutive unit increases in its second and third weeks since 2017.
- HUNTR/X’s lead single “Golden” surged to No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, marking the first time a fictional act has topped either ranking.
- KPop Demon Hunters, a Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation musical, blends authentic K-pop production with animated storytelling to drive cross-media audience engagement.