KPop Demon Hunters held a year unbroken in 1 of 93 countries
It sat on some country's Netflix Top 10 for 62 straight weeks. Counted country by country, four of 93 passed 52 weeks and only Latvia held every week without dropping out. Korea ran 32 weeks, the median of all 93.
The table this is written from: /run-length
The press line on KPop Demon Hunters has settled into one sentence: a year on Netflix’s Top 10. It is repeated with the number and without the place. “On the Top 10” is not one chart. It is 93 separate country charts, and the sentence is true in almost none of them.
We hold the weekly country tables — 501,040 rows across 269 weeks. 3,043 of those rows are this film. They cover 93 countries and 62 distinct weeks, from 2025-06-22 to 2026-08-23.
62 weeks is the ceiling, and one country hit it
Sixty-two is not a country’s score. It is the number of weeks the film appeared anywhere. So a country reaching 62 means it never missed a week the film was on any chart on earth.
One did.
| Country | Weeks on chart | Longest unbroken run | Times it dropped out | Peak rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 62 | 62 | 0 | 1 |
| Estonia | 60 | 51 | 2 | 1 |
| Lithuania | 59 | 51 | 3 | 1 |
| Serbia | 57 | 51 | 2 | 1 |
| Mexico | 51 | 45 | 5 | 1 |
| United States | 49 | 46 | 2 | 1 |
| South Korea | 32 | 32 | 0 | 1 |
Four countries of 93 passed 52 weeks. Three of the four are Baltic states; the fourth is Serbia. Estonia, Lithuania and Serbia each ran 51 weeks unbroken and then came back after a gap — so by the strict reading, a continuous year happened in exactly one country.
Korea is the median
The film is Korean. Korea held it 32 weeks — and 32 is the median of all 93 countries. Forty-two countries held it longer than the country that made it.
| Weeks on chart | Countries |
|---|---|
| 60–62 | 2 |
| 52–59 | 2 |
| 40–51 | 21 |
| 30–39 | 29 |
| 20–29 | 31 |
| under 20 | 8 |
Korea’s 32 weeks were unbroken — it never dropped out and came back. That is the rarer shape: only 15 of 93 countries have a zero in the drop-out column, and most of those are short runs. Seventy-eight countries lost it and got it back at least once.
Dropping out is the normal case
This is the part the single number hides. Across the 93 countries, the film left the Top 10 and returned in 78 of them. The Netflix column that reports weeks-in-top-10 counts cumulatively, not consecutively — we checked that separately against the raw rows — so a country credited with 50 weeks may have been off the chart repeatedly inside that span.
Mexico is the clearest case: 51 weeks on the chart, five separate exits, longest continuous run 45 weeks. By the cumulative column Mexico “made a year.” By the calendar it did not.
| Countries | |
|---|---|
| Never dropped out | 15 |
| Dropped out at least once | 78 |
| Reached rank 1 at some point | 76 |
Seventy-six of 93 countries put it at number one at least once. Reaching the top was ordinary. Staying was not.
What this does not say
It does not say Latvia watched it most. Latvia has about 1.8 million people and ten Top 10 slots to fill each week, and a country with a thinner competing catalogue holds a hit longer for reasons that have nothing to do with enthusiasm. Weeks on a chart measure how long a title kept a slot against local competition, not how many people pressed play. We do not add the weeks across countries, and we do not convert them into viewers.
It also stops at 2026-08-23. That is the last week in the tables we hold. Whether the film is on a Top 10 this week is something we have not measured, and we will not write it down as zero.
The tables behind this are at kculturewire.com/run-length, kculturewire.com/by-country and kculturewire.com/netflix-which-country.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Netflix — Weekly Top 10 country tables, 269 weeks from 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-23, read as 501,040 rows; 3,043 of them carry this title · https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10
What we checked
- Weeks are counted as distinct chart weeks per country, so a country appearing on both the films and the non-English list in one week is counted once and not twice
- Each country's weeks are re-walked in date order to separate a cumulative count from an unbroken run, because Netflix's own weeks-in-top-10 column counts cumulatively and not consecutively
- The title match is anchored to the start of the title. A first pass on the words alone pulled in Holy Night: Demon Hunters, a different 2025 Korean film, and its five rows are excluded
- Country order is checked against peak rank, so a long run at rank 10 is not read as a stronger showing than a short run at rank 1
What we left out, and why
- How many people watched. This counts weeks on a chart, not views. A small country can hold a title for a year and account for fewer viewers than one week in a large one, and the weeks are never added across countries
- Anything after 2026-08-23. That is the last week in the tables we hold, so whether the film is still charting now is unmeasured, not zero
- Russia, which is dropped from every count we publish
- Why a country held it longer. Catalogue size, how many titles compete for ten slots, and local release patterns all bear on this and none of them are measured here
- Any claim that the four countries that passed a year liked the film more than the 89 that did not
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