‘Squid Game’ Topped the 2024 Single-Week Charts with 4.9 Billion Minutes Watched

Between December 23 and December 29, 2024, Squid Game became the most-watched series in a single week, racking up a staggering 4.9 billion minutes viewed, according to Nielsen.

This number includes views from both seasons of the hit Korean drama, but most of the attention was on Season 2, which debuted on Netflix on December 26. In just four days, Season 2 alone contributed over 4 billion minutes to that total.

The second season got off to a historic start, pulling in 68 million total views within four days—more than any Netflix show has achieved at launch. By the 11-day mark, it hit an unmatched 126.2 million views.

This makes Squid Game Season 2 Netflix’s most successful debut ever and the platform’s third most-watched season overall, trailing only the first season of Squid Game and Wednesday.

During that same week, a few other titles still managed to break a billion minutes viewed. Virgin River (2.2 billion), Dwayne Johnson’s holiday movie Red One (1.8 billion), and Netflix’s thriller Carry-On (1.5 billion) were among the standout performers. Other hits included The Six Triple Eight, Bluey, Landman, and The Equalizer.

What makes Squid Game’s dominance even more impressive is how it more than doubled the viewership of the next closest series. With 16 episodes between both seasons, the show keeps climbing in popularity well into 2025. It even helped Season 1 reappear on Netflix’s non-English TV top 10, landing at third place for the week.

There’s no question that Squid Game is rewriting the rules for what streaming success looks like.

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