‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Aims To Dethrone Its Predecessor, Soaring To Second On Netflix’s All-Time Non-English TV List After 12 Days

Squid Game has quickly taken over Netflix since the release of Season 2.

In its first full week on the streamer, the second season racked up 58.2M views from December 30 to January 5, not only maintaining its position as most-watched title of the week, but soaring to the second most-watched non-English title of all time — behind only Season 1.

Add that to the 68M views it tallied in its first three days and Season 2 is now sitting at 126.2M views in 11 days. That makes it the fourth most-streamed series on the streamer, also behind Wednesday and Stranger Things 4.

At this rate, it would not be surprising to see Season 2 eventually surpass its predecessor as Netflix’s top title of all time. It’s got another 79 days to get 139M additional views in order to take that crown.

Speaking of Season 1, it was the No. 2 non-English title of the week with 13.6M views. Though previous seasons of series do tend to pop back into the Top 10 when a new season is released, this is quite an impressive level of viewership for the three-year-old installment.

While no other titles came close to Squid Game‘s massive viewership, a few put up strong performances of their own. Airport thriller Carry-On snagged another 17.4M views, securing its fourth week atop the English films list and making it to No. 5 on the most popular English films list with 149.4M views total since it was released.

That pushed Leave the World Behind down a spot and knocking Glass Onion off the list entirely. It’s still got 60+ days in its premiere window to continue racking up views and climb higher on the all-time list. It’s hot on Bird Box‘s tail, needing only a few million views to surpass that No. 4 title.

Elsewhere in film, Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight spent another week at No. 2 with 10.8M views. Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 came in at No. 7 with 4M views.

On the English TV side of things, Missing You debuted to a pretty strong audience with 21.7M views, placing it at No. 1 on the weekly list. Also on the list were Season 6 of Virgin River in second placw with 5.2M views and Season 1 of Black Doves at No. 3 with 5M views.

Netflix also says that Beyoncé’s NFL halftime show has now been watched by about 50M people globally since Christmas Day, though the streamer didn’t specify how many have watched just the special recording of that performance since it was released later in the week.