Streaming Ratings: ’Squid Game’ Final Season Sets Three-Day Record on Netflix Charts
It’s no surprise that the final season of Squid Game attracted a huge worldwide audience — it’s the biggest show Netflix has ever hosted, after all — but the scale of the Korean hit continues to impress.
The third and final season of the series amassed 60.1 million views worldwide from June 27-29, the largest three-day tally Netflix has ever recorded in its internal rankings. Season two, which premiered Dec. 26, 2024, had a higher opening-week total of 68 million views, but those came over four days. Both seasons made Netflix’s all-time top 10 for non-English-language shows in their first week, the only times that has happened on either the English or non-English series charts.
Season three’s 60.1 million views equates to 368.4 million hours of watch time, per Netflix. At a little more than six hours, it’s the shortest of the three Squid Game seasons, which will allow it to rack up view numbers (total viewing time divided by run time) a little faster than the previous two installments.
Squid Game ranked No. 1 for the week of June 23-29 in every country that Netflix tracks, also a first for one of the streamer’s shows. The final season sees Player 456/Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) make a final attempt to bring down the deadly game from within — while also hinting in its last scene that the games are global in scope.
Another title with roots in Korean culture, KPop Demon Hunters, also had a big week for Netflix. The animated film moved up to No. 1 on the English-language movie chart in its second week with 24.2 million views (or the equivalent of that many complete runs of the movie).
The first season of Squid Game remains Netflix’s most watched series to date with 265.2 million views over its first 13 weeks of release (the cutoff time for the streamer’s all-time top 10 lists). Season two is currently second among non-English-language series with 192.6 million views, and season three sits ninth — with the potential to move into the top five in another week.
