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KPop Demon Hunters isn’t behaving like a Netflix title. Now, in week 7, it’s the primary week the film hasn’t really gained viewership week over week. That unbelievable efficiency has triggered lots of buzz about what’s subsequent for the franchise, however a much bigger query stays: can it lastly beat Purple Discover? It seems attainable. Right here’s your prime 10 report!
Observe: On this report of Netflix’s hours considered from July 28, 2025, to August 3, 2025, we’ll use “Full Viewings Equal,” or CVE, expressed in hundreds of thousands. Meaning we divide the hours considered introduced by Netflix by the runtime of movies or sequence. It permits for higher comparisons between movies and sequence, but it surely’s not an viewers metric. It’s the minimal variety of viewings in the event that they had been all full from the primary second to the final second of the movie or season.
As all the time, let’s get into the weekly stats, noting that this week was the very best on report, stretching again to June thirteenth, 2023, for English Movie.
- English TV – 40,900,000 views (Rank 77 of 111 weeks)
- English Movie – 138,900,000 (Rank 1 of 111 weeks)
- Non-English TV – 29,600,000 (Rank 44 of 111 weeks)
- Non-English Movie – 19,100,000 (Rank 105 of 111 weeks)
1. KPop Demon Hunters Hits The All-Time High 10 – The place Does It In the end Land?
KPop Demon Hunters continues to defy gravity this week with a maintain on final week of 26.3M views, making it now the fourth most watched Netflix Authentic English language film of all time with 158.70M views.
The quantity 2 place on the Netflix all-time prime 10 seems simply attainable, and we must always cross into that territory subsequent week, however will it lastly topple Purple Discover, which will stay untouched on the prime spot even in spite of everything these years? It’s attainable. It’s received round 58.8M views to go, and we’ve 44 days to go. Placing in some initiatives that assume both a 0% drop decline (really greatest case state of affairs) to a extra conventional 20% and even 30% week-over-week decline, and issues begin trying achievable…
2. Leanne Makes A Low Debut, However Its Episode Depend Is To Blame (For Now)
The brand new Chuck Lorre-produced multicam sitcom Leanne, headlined by Leanne Morgan, debuted final week to simply 2.7M views. That’s based mostly on a viewing hours of 14.9M, however due to its uncommon 16-episode depend, that pushes the views decrease (extra runtime to divide the hours by). This could play into the present’s benefit in weeks 2-4, with Netflix viewers getting extra into the sequence, however we’re cautiously going to be watching this one within the weeks to come back.
3. Netflix Ought to Renew The Looking Wives (Someway)
One present that’s notably onerous to measure in opposition to different exhibits is The Looking Wives, provided that it was completely licensed to Netflix within the US just for one 12 months and with out Netflix Authentic branding. The present has already been offered in worldwide areas, making a renewal for Netflix alone a little bit of a messy proposition, given they normally solely like funding exhibits in the event that they’ve received the worldwide rights.
That mentioned, with the present nonetheless topping the worldwide charts regardless of its one area availability and FlixPatrol suggesting the present was solely simply knocked off the highest 10, it’s resonating.
| Week in High 10 | Week Interval | Hours Considered | Views / CVE | Weekly Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July twentieth, 2025 to July twenty seventh, 2025 | 34,600,000 (New) | 5,200,000 | 3 |
| 2 | July twenty seventh, 2025 to August third, 2025 | 38,500,000 (+11%) | 5,800,000 | 2 |
Lionsgate even simply issued a press launch praising the sequence debut and touting the Liminate rankings the place the sequence really topped the charts with 2B minutes considered. They state that, “Lionsgate pivoted the present to Netflix and put collectively a viral grassroots advertising marketing campaign to assist its launch.”
4. Conversations with a Killer and the ultimate Trainwreck
As we’ve witnessed all Summer season, Netflix’s format of manufacturing documentaries underneath a moniker has been paying dividends. The Joe Berlinger crime docu-series is again after three years to a really disappointing 3.4M views. Even when in comparison with Berlinger’s different “franchises” equivalent to Chilly Case or Crime Scene, the numbers don’t replicate notably properly…
Trainwreck concluded its eight-entry run for the summer season final week with its protection of the viral incident often called Storm Space 51. It debuted to 7M views, which places it first amongst the center of the pack with Poopcruise, with a ridiculous 21.1M views, the Trainwreck king.
5. My Oxford Yr
Sofia Carson is in a model new Netflix film, and provided that she’s already received fairly just a few underneath her belt, we are able to now put collectively the Sofia Carson film opening chart! The film is her second greatest opening, barely forward of The Life List from earlier this 12 months, however finally behind Carry-On. Maybe it was the involvement of Corey Mylchreest, the British theme, or how properly the guide offered that gave this film the sting however both approach, Sofia Carson is a licensed Netflix star.
The place does the film stack up within the 2025 English language listing? Across the center of the pack, simply behind Kinda Pregnant however forward of The Life Checklist and La Dolce Villa.
6. Joyful Gilmore 2 in Week 2
Joyful Gilmore 2 made headlines final week for a brand new accolade Netflix carved out: greatest US opening weekend for a movie ever. Whereas we’re nonetheless ready for extra stats from the likes of Nielsen to again that up, it was near Purple Discover based mostly on stats from SambaTV. However the query we’re all ready for the reply to is, will the film hit the all-time prime 10? With a 13% decline from week 1 to 2, it’s too early to name, however it’s at the moment trailing Carry-On and Again in Motion, however ever so barely forward of Damsel, which now rounds out the all-time most watched.
7. Unspeakable Sins Debuts
Netflix Mexico has had a string of successes thus far in 2025, however can its new sequence, Unspeakable Sins, keep it up the streak? Considerably is the reply. With 5.1M views in its debut week, that places it on par with Bandidos (which did get a season 2) and forward of One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Secret of the River (and The Gringo Hunters, which might be one of many greatest misses of the 12 months).
That’s it for this week, and for one thing slightly completely different, let’s play a recreation! Wednesday S2 quantity 1 debuts tomorrow, however will it debut to larger or decrease views than season 1 did again in November 2022? For reference, it pulled in 52.6M views in its first week.
Will Wednesday S2 debut to larger or decrease than 52.6M views