‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hits 126.2 Million Views in 11 Days — Faster Than Any Netflix Series Ever

Season 2 of “Squid Game” is racking up views at a record pace. After topping Netflix‘s charts last week with 68 million views in four days — Netflix’s biggest TV debut ever — the season picked up another 58.2 million views in its first full week of availability. That brings it to a total of 126.2 million views total across 11 days, more than any Netflix series has ever achieved in that amount of time.

“Squid Game” Season 2 immediately cracked Netflix’s list of its most popular non-English-language series last week, but this week it jumped from No. 7 to No. 2. Only “Squid Game” Season 1 still outpaces it, having achieved 265.2 million views in its first 91 days of streaming, but Season 2 appears likely to outpace it, having 80 days left to continue accumulating views.

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Naturally, the season was the most-watched English-language series of the week of Dec. 30 to Jan. 5 — as well as the most Netflix title of the week overall. “Squid Game” Season 1 also enjoyed a boost, hitting 13.6 million views and ranking as the No. 2 English-language series.

On the movies chart, Taron Egerton’s “Carry-On” remained on top for the fourth week in a row with 17.4 million views — in fact, it also jumped to No. 5 on the list of Netflix’s most-popular English-language films of all time with 149.4 million views in just four weeks.

The top English-language series, and No. 2 Netflix title overall, was limited series “Missing You,” which debuted with 21.7 million views in its first five days on Netflix. It was followed “Virgin River” Season 2, which enjoyed its third week on the Top 10 with 5.2 million views, then “Black Doves” with 5 million views in its fifth week.

“Departure,” a Canadian series that premiered in 2020, recently landed on Netflix and took two spots on the chart: Season 1 landed at No. 4 on the chart with 3.6 million views, while Season 2 took 10th place with 1.6 million views.

In fifth place was Colman Domingo’s “The Madness” with 2.8 million views in its sixth week on the chart, followed by the comedy special “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze” at No. 6 with 2.5 million views in its first full week of availability. “No Good Deed” had its fourth week on the chart at No. 7 with 2.3 million views.

At No. 8, comedy special “Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year” hit 2.1 million views. And Season 1 of “The Night Agent” took ninth place as fans anticipate the release of Season 2 on Jan. 23.

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.

More to come…