As expected, the second installation of “Squid Game” has been an immediate and massive success. Season 2 debuted with 68 million views in its first four days of availability — more than any other Netflix series has achieved in its premiere week, beating a record that “Wednesday” set with 50.1 million views in 2022.
The season also rapidly landed on Netflix’s list of its most popular non-English language TV titles of all time at No. 7, which is measured across each series’ first 91 days of viewership. Season 1 of “Squid Game” currently sits at the top of that list with 265.2 views, but Season 2 has plenty of time to potentially cross that line.
Naturally, this made “Squid Game” Season 2 Netflix’s most-watched title of the week of Dec. 23-29. Season 1 also saw renewed interest, charting as the No. 3 non-English language TV series of the week with 8.1 million views. The week’s second-most-watched title overall was the Taron Egerton-led movie “Carry-On” (34.9 million views) followed by the Tyler Perry-directed movie “The Six Triple Eight” (23.3 million).
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The English-language TV chart was led by Netflix’s two Christmas Day NFL games: The Ravens-Texans game, which featured a halftime performance from Beyoncé, was No. 1 with 14.4 million views, and the Chiefs-Steelers game was right behind it with 14.3 million.
“Virgin River” Season 6 was the first scripted series on the English language chart, taking No. 3 with 9.2 million views in its first full week of availability. Season 1 also got a boost, taking 10th place with 1.3 million views. At No. 4 was the comedy special “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze” with 6.3 million views in its first six days of streaming, then “Black Doves” with 5.4 million views in its third full week of availability.
“Fireplace for Your Home: Crackling Birchwood Fireplace” was the No. 6 title on the chart. evidently having been played in the background of many Netflix users’ holiday celebrations. Another variant, “Fireplace for Your Home: Classic Crackling Fireplace” took ninth place with 1.6 million views.
“The Madness” took No. 7 in its fifth week on the chart, hitting three million views, followed by “No Good Deed” with 2.7 million views in its third week on the chart.
See Netflix’s Top 10 lists for the week of Dec. 23-29 below. The lists begin with English-language series and are followed by non-English-language TV shows, English-language movies, and then non-English-language movies.
