The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Singalong Version Starts Streaming Today

After a very successful weekend at the box office—delivering Netflix one of its biggest theatrical releases ever—all those KPop Demon Hunters tracks are ready to earworm their way into your head all over again with the streaming release of the special singalong version of the film. And you don’t even have to wait now that Huntr/X has sashayed their way off of the big screen: it’s streaming on Netflix right now.
Netflix confirmed that the special singalong edition of the film will stream globally from today, August 25, after the film managed to bring in over $18 million dollars over the weekend, landing it in the number one spot at the box office—the first time the streamer has ever had a release hit the top. Existing separately on the platform from the usual version of the film KPop Demon Hunters Singalong simply gives karaoke-style subtitles to the film’s main original songs: “How It’s Done”, “Golden”, “Soda Pop”, “Takedown”, “Free”, the reprisals of “Golden” and “Takedown”, “Your Idol”, and “What It Sounds Like”. You also get brief subtitles for a few of the minor songs in the film too, like during Jinu’s introduction and during the brief song Celine and a young Rumi sing together in a flashback.

KPop Demon Hunters has now spent months being a smash-hit breakout for Netflix as part of its streaming deal with Sony Pictures. On top of being on track to oust Red Notice as Netflix’s biggest original film ever, various songs off the soundtrack have been breaking records on the Billboard Top 100, including “Golden”, which became the first song produced by a group of female artists, fictional or otherwise, to hit number 1 since Destiny’s Child in 2001 for “Bootylicious”. Consider that Honmoon signed, sealed, and delivered.
Of course, the viral success of the film has led to Netflix scrambling to see what they can do next with what is now one of their most valuable theatrical franchises. Although nothing has been officially confirmed yet (and co-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans have certainly not been quiet on the media circuit, letting us all know they have ideas for sequels), Netflix purportedly wants to take Rumi, Mira, and Zoey and put them everywhere. A recent report around the streamer’s plans for future extensions of the series includes sequels, a live-action adaptation, a TV spinoff, and even a potential stage show.
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