{"id":135489,"date":"2025-01-01T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=135489"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:33:42","slug":"netflixs-squid-game-season-2-is-the-platforms-most-viewed-show-ever-in-an-opening-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/netflixs-squid-game-season-2-is-the-platforms-most-viewed-show-ever-in-an-opening-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s \u201cSquid Game\u201d season 2 is the platform\u2019s most-viewed show ever in an opening week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Netflix<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>\u201cSquid Game\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>franchise has become one of the most popular shows among the Netizens. Ultimately, the latest season of the show has surpassed the records set by its predecessor, proving the show is soaring to new heights.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s internal figures from December 23 to December 29, 2024, <strong>the<em> \u201cSquid Game,\u201d<\/em> season 2 reached 487.6 million viewing hours just four days after its initial release on December 26<\/strong>. An astonishing record ending the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/squid-game-season-2-entered-the-at-number-7-of-the-most-watched-tv-shows-in-the-platform--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The show debuted at number 1 in the Global Top 10 (Non-English) TV shows category. Its total views hit 68 million, securing the top spot overall. This performance <strong>beats<\/strong> the first-week record of the first season of the <em>\u201cSquid Game,\u201d<\/em> which made 50.1 million views at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In just four days, <em>\u201cSquid Game\u201d<\/em> season 2 entered Netflix\u2019s <em>\u201cAll Time Top 10 for Non-English TV Shows,\u201d<\/em> ranking at<strong> number 3<\/strong>. The first spot is still held by the first season of the show, but it might threaten this spot sooner than everyone thinks. Do you enjoy the second season of the popular series?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ed1sGgHUo88&amp;t=4s&amp;ab_channel=Netflix\" title=\"Squid Game: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ed1sGgHUo88?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s \u201cSquid Game\u201d franchise has become one of the most popular shows among the Netizens. Ultimately, the latest season of the show has surpassed the records set by its predecessor, proving the show is soaring to new heights. Netflix\u2019s internal figures from December 23 to December 29, 2024, the \u201cSquid Game,\u201d season 2 reached 487.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":135534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1934,7],"tags":[1004,1435],"class_list":{"0":"post-135489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-k-drama","9":"category-news","10":"tag-netflix","11":"tag-squid-game"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}