The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack has reached 67 weeks at number one on Billboard’s Top Soundtracks chart. Billboard confirmed the total on Tuesday, November 3, and it stands as the all-time record for a chart that began on June 30, 2001.
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack record was not set in a single week. The album passed Moana’s long-standing mark of 62 weeks in October, moving ahead at 63 weeks, then 66, and Billboard’s latest full list of the chart’s longest-running leaders, published November 3, puts it at 67 and counting, five weeks clear of every other soundtrack the chart has ever ranked.
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The dominance behind the number is the real story. Across 71 weeks on Top Soundtracks, the album has spent all but four of them at number one. It gave up the top spot for one week each to Wicked: For Good, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights and the Heated Rivalry soundtrack, and took the position back every time. No soundtrack in the chart’s 25-year history has controlled its ranking this completely, for this long.
KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack Record: The Numbers
The album first reached number one on July 5, 2025, two weeks after the film arrived on Netflix on June 20, 2025, and its run was never confined to the soundtrack chart. It also topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks, reached Platinum certification in the United States, and placed three of its songs at the front of its singles run: “Takedown” by TWICE, and “Golden” and “How It’s Done” by HUNTR/X. A soundtrack that leads the all-genre album chart while it rewrites its own chart’s history is operating on two levels at once.
The list it now leads underlines the scale. Behind KPop Demon Hunters at 67 weeks sit Moana at 62, Frozen II at 51, Frozen at 44 and Encanto at 41. The Greatest Showman and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are tied at 34, Barbie: The Album holds 33, and A Charlie Brown Christmas, first released as a television special soundtrack in 1965, has logged 31. Billboard notes that the five longest-running number one soundtracks in the chart’s history all come from animated films, and the new leader has opened a gap over the rest of that group that would take more than a year of perfect weeks for any of them to close.
One honest limit applies, and Billboard states it in its own list. Because Top Soundtracks only began in 2001, the comparison does not reach the blockbuster soundtracks of earlier eras, naming West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, Saturday Night Fever and Purple Rain as albums whose original runs predate the chart. The record is the record of the chart’s own 25-year history, and inside that history it is not close.
Golden Is The Engine Of The Run
Soundtracks do not hold number one for 67 weeks on catalogue strength alone. This one is powered by a single that became a phenomenon of its own. HUNTR/X, the fictional girl group at the centre of the film, is performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singing voices of Rumi, Mira and Zoey, whose speaking voices come from Arden Cho, May Hong and Ji-young Yoo. Their song “Golden,” released as a single on July 4, 2025 through Republic Records, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight nonconsecutive weeks.
The awards followed the chart run. “Golden” won the Academy Award for best original song, and Billboard’s list notes it was the first winning song with seven writers, a detail that forced the Academy’s trophy-sharing rule into the story. The film itself won the Oscar for best animated feature, and “Golden” also won the Grammy for best song written for visual media. Around those two songs and “How It’s Done,” the album fills out with TWICE performing “Takedown” and “Strategy,” and the film’s rival group Saja Boys on “Soda Pop” and “Your Idol,” a tracklist built by a production team led by Teddy Park and executive producer Ian Eisendrath. The film became the most-watched movie in Netflix history, reported at more than 500 million views, and the soundtrack has been riding that audience ever since.
A Toronto Creator Built The Phenomenon
There is a Canadian thread through the middle of this record, and it starts in Toronto. KPop Demon Hunters was created by Maggie Kang, who was born in Seoul, moved to Toronto at age five, grew up in the city and studied classical animation at Sheridan College in Ontario. The City of Toronto’s own release traces the path from there: recruited by DreamWorks Animation, story artist work on the Puss in Boots franchise, The Croods: A New Age, Rise of the Guardians, Kung Fu Panda 3, Trolls, Shrek Forever After, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Over the Hedge, then Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru and head of story on The Lego Ninjago Movie at Warner Animation Group, before she created this film’s story and co-wrote and directed it with Chris Appelhans.
Toronto formalised the connection on May 7, 2026, when Mayor Olivia Chow presented Kang with the Key to the City at Departure Festival and Conference 2026, the city’s highest honour. Chow said: “Toronto is a city where creativity and culture come together in powerful ways. Maggie Kang is one of the artists who brings that to life, with storytelling that is both personal and globally recognized. One of those stories, KPop Demon Hunters, has connected with households across our city and around the world, bringing families together through themes of friendship, identity and belonging. Her work reflects both her Korean heritage and her Toronto roots. On behalf of the people of Toronto, I am proud to present her with the Key to the City.”
The Record Keeps Moving
Nothing about the run looks finished. Netflix confirmed in March 2026 that Kang and Appelhans will return for a sequel, targeting a 2029 release, which gives the original soundtrack a second promotional life years before it arrives. In the meantime, the record extends itself one ordinary week at a time: every chart the album leads from here adds to a total no soundtrack had reached before October, and the only title that has interrupted it with any regularity, A Charlie Brown Christmas, returns to contention each December. Until a rival holds the top spot for more than a week, 67 is not the final number. It is simply where the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack record stands on November 3, 2026, with the gap over Moana still growing.
