SEOUL, July 14 -- The soundtrack for animated film KPop Demon Hunters rose to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its third week, boosted by the global popularity of the film featuring a fictional K-pop girl group.

Billboard's news site reported yesterday that the album of the Netflix film climbed one spot from No. 3 the previous week, achieving its highest position on the chart so far.

"It's the first soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second and third weeks since the 'Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2' album in 2017," Billboard said.

"As the 'KPop Demon Hunters' soundtrack racked up 96.33 million streams for its songs in its third week, it scored the bigg...