Netflix has added 8.5 million new paid memberships, bringing the streamers’ total paid memberships past the 200 million marks in Q4. Netflix has seen a boom in subscribers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep people at home.

In its latest quarterly earnings report, Netflix announced that it has surpassed the 200 million paid memberships threshold. “For the full year, we added a record 37 [million] paid memberships, achieved $25 billion in annual revenue… and grew operating profit 76% to $4.6 billion.”

At 200 million, Netflix has the largest subscriber base out of any streaming service, though competition in the streaming space is heating up. In December, Disney reported that it had 86 million subscribers for its Disney+ streaming service, alone.

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Meanwhile, HBO Max is looking to make a big play this year by bringing highly-anticipated movies formerly scheduled for theater-only releases to HBO Max streaming on the same day. This includes titles like Godzilla vs. Kong, Dune, and The Suicide Squad.

But at over double the subscriber count of its nearest competitor, Netflix is sitting pretty atop the streaming throne. The company recently announced that it will premiere a new original movie every week for the full 2021 calendar year.

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Looking forward to Netflix’s 2021, there will be new offerings like Zack Snyder’s zombie heist film Army of the Dead starring Dave Bautista; Thunder Force starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer; and Red Notice starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds.

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Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.