Netflix’s ‘Swapped’ Sets A Record That Blows By ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

InnovationGamingNetflix’s ‘Swapped’ Sets A Record That Blows By ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorMay 13, 2026, 08:53am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.SwappedNetflixDepending on your interests and tastes, it can be easy to miss cultural phenomena, and that definitely happened with me and Swapped, a Netflix animated feature that has just broken a significant record on the service. Yes, something even KPop Demon Hunters can’t match.Swapped, which stars 2025 Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan and Cedric the Entertainer, now has the largest audience of any Netflix animated movie ever over a seven-day period, where it hit 38.7 million views between May 4-10 after its original debut on May 1, whereas KPop’s biggest week was 30.1 million. That also made Swapped the most-watched offering on Netflix the entire week, including TV shows.How has Swapped managed to pass up KPop Demon Hunters, which is now far and away the most-watched Netflix movie of all time by a few hundred million views over second place? The answer is that KPop Demon Hunters was not a blockbuster right out of the gate, especially with no big celebrity voices to draw in eyeballs. Rather, it was a snowball effect where it gained Steam in time. Then, it has stayed on Netflix’s top 10 list on and off for almost an entire year now, and it was months and months before it even left it once. But yes, Swapped has a stronger, faster initial start here.SwappedNetflixWhat is Swapped actually about? Here’s the synopsis:“A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime.”MORE FOR YOUReviews for Swapped are…just okay. It has a 67% on Rotte...