‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Breaks Another Netflix Audience Record As Streamer Releases Biannual Viewership Report; ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Led TV In Second Half Of 2025 — What We Watched

If Kpop Demon Hunters didn’t already cement itself as a cultural phenom, Netflix‘s latest biannual engagement report seals the deal by proclaiming the animated feature the streamer’s most-watched title ever over a six-month period.

In the second half of last year, Kpop Demon Hunters amassed 482M views, according to Netflix’s latest What We Watched report (released twice a year with the company’s Q2 and Q4 earnings reports), which details viewing across every Netflix title from July 2025 to December 2025. That doesn’t even include the film’s first 10 days of viewing following its June 20 premiere.

Netflix also reports that the KPop Demon Hunters Lyric Videos raked in an additional 32M views, further illustrating the unprecedented popularity of the film, which just took home multiple Golden Globe awards and is widely considered to be a strong Oscars contender.

For context, Happy Gilmore 2, which premiered a month later on July 25, collected 135.1M views globally through December after having the biggest U.S. opening weekend ever for a Netflix film.

On the series side, the most-watched title was Wednesday Season 2. The second season began rolling out on August 6 and tallied 123.9M views through the end of the year. Season 1 ranked No. 8 among all shows on Netflix in H2 2025 with 47M views.

Despite such a limited window to accumulate views, Stranger Things 5 soared to second place among series for the second half of 2025 with 93.5M views. This only includes the first few hours of the series finale’s availability after it debuted at 8 p.m. ET on New Year’s Eve, and it doesn’t encapsulate the entire premiere window for any of the three volumes in Season 5, so expect Stranger Things to remain pretty high on the charts when Netflix releases this data for the first half of 2026 with the Q2 earnings report in July.

The first two seasons of Stranger Things also found themselves among the Top 10 shows on Netflix with Season 1 nabbing No. 5 with 57M views and Season 2 settling at No. 10 with 45M views.

As expected, the final season of Squid Game also appeared high on the list, since the previous engagement report only captured about three days of viewing for Season 3 after its June 27 premiere.

This report also makes it clear why Untamed, which was initially planned as a limited series, is getting a second season. The first installment blew past some pretty tough competition to secure third place among series for the second half of the year with 92.8M views from its July 17 premiere through the end of 2025.

Ryan Murphy also made his presence known with the latest installment of his Monster series. The Ed Gein Story landed at No. 6 with 56M views in the final two months of the year, following its October 3 premiere. And despite premiering on December 2, just a few weeks before the end of this measurement period, Sean Combs: The Reckoning scored 50.8M views, making it the seventh most-watched series in the second half of the year.

As always, the biggest caveat to all of this data is that this only encapsulates the most recent six months of viewing on Netflix, which can only paint so much of a picture. To get a broader understanding of the streamer’s year, see what interested Netflix viewers in the first half of 2025, which was led by Adolescence and Back in Action.

In total, Netflix viewers watched 96B hours of content from July to December, up a billion from the first half of the year, the streamer says.