World's most-watched TV show of 2025 has 25 billion views; kids' show beat Landman, Squid Game, Love Island, Adolescence
The world's most-watched TV show of 2025
The global market research firm Nielsen tabulates the viewership numbers and TV ratings of shows worldwide. In its latest report released last month, the firm revealed the most-streamed and most-watched TV shows worldwide from January to June 2025. And while hot favourites like Squid Game, The White Lotus, and The Night Agent all found a place in the top 20, they were way off the top. Sitting pretty at number 1 is the Australian animated show, Bluey. According to Nielsen, Bluey has 25 billion minutes viewed in the first half of 2025, beating Grey's Anatomy, which closely follows with 22.5 billion minutes.
Minutes are used as a comparative metric because "it's the great equalizer across dissimilar program categories and ultimately shows how consumers are spending their viewing time," according to Nielsen.
About Bluey
Bluey has appeared on Nielsen's streaming ratings, either on the overall list or on the Top 10 acquired series, for 143 straight weeks, starting in October 2022. The show routinely makes it to the top as its target audience is young children, who tend to repeat episodes. Its large library of episodes also increases the minutes viewed over drama shows like The White Lotus or Squid Game, which only have 22-30 episodes. Created by Joe Brumm and produced by Ludo Studio from Queensland, Bluey began airing in 2018 and went worldwide the following year. In the US, it gained popularity after its arrival on Disney Junior and eventually Disney+ in 2019. The show, aimed at pre-schoolers, has 154 episodes spread across 3 seasons.
The shows that Bluey beat
Nielsen's list features several prominent shows that continue to garner views based on reruns, such as Friends, The Big Bang Theory, and Supernatural, alongside new favourites like The Rookie (15 billion minutes), Reacher (13 billion), and The White Lotus (11 billion). Luminate's independent list for shows from 2025 features names like Landman (14.4 billion), Mobland (8 billion), Love Island (8 billion), and The Pitt (6.2 billion).
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Hans India
23 minutes ago
- Hans India
Backlash Erupts Over Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Photoshoot Amid Political Controversy and Comparisons to 2009 Campaign
The debate surrounding American Eagle Outfitters' "Great Jeans" campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney does not appear to be slowing down. Over the course of more than 10 days, advertisements with "The White Lotus" actress are generating news coverage and social media rebukes. U.S. President Donald Trump has fueled the eugenics controversy during the weekend and David Lipman, a veteran advertising creative director on Monday, suggested to suggest that this American Eagle campaign recreated the look he created in 2009 when he collaborated by collaborating with Georgia May Jagger for Hudson Jeans. When a reporter revealed the voter registration status of Sydney Sweeney, Trump commented on Truth Social and called her the most talked about and viral ad campaign on the market. Trump acknowledged the great jeans genes ad and said it was flying off the shelves and encouraged Sydney to keep up her efforts. A media inquiry for the U.S. Office of Government Ethics seeking to know if Trump endorsement was in line the rules regarding "Endorsing Organizations, Products or Persons" was not acknowledged on Monday. American Eagle's stock surge 23.5 percent to close at $13.28. This is a significant increase compared to Friday which saw it drop by just a fraction of 1. At 27years old, Sweeney's Instagram following has risen to 25 million by Friday night, to 25.2 million. Additionally the popularity of her American Eagle campaign video has grown to 1.3 million views and attracted between 36,600 to 57,600 responses an increase of 57,600 from 5,483 posts earlier during the same time. Based on Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University If Sydney B. Sweeney registered as an Republican within Florida was the exact person that is being discussed as a possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, then party operatives could be forming narratives that have white supremacist themes.
Mint
23 minutes ago
- Mint
With 25 billion views, world's most-viewed TV show of 2025 is a kids' show -- It is not Peppa Pig or CoComelon
The first half of 2025 is over. The year saw several releases in theatres, on television and on streaming platforms across the globe. Amid the new releases, several favourites also returned, including the finale season of Squid Game, a fresh instalment of Love Island and more shows. But one show has outshone them all, becoming the most-viewed TV show of this year so far. In fact, the most-viewed show is not even for adults, but for adults. It has also found love from pet parents for being 'pet-friendly'. No, it isn't Peppa Pig or CoComelon. The world's most-viewed TV show of 2025 so far is Bluey. With 25 billion+ views, the show by the Australian children's program has emerged as the most-watched one, according to the global market research firm Nielsen. In its recent report in July, Nielsen shared a list of the most-streamed and most-watched TV shows across the world from January to June 2025. Popular titles like Squid Game, The White Lotus, and The Night Agent made it to the top 20 list. Surpassing them all, Bluey took the top spot with a total of 25 billion minutes in the first half of 2025, beating the iconic show, Grey's Anatomy, which stood second in the list with 22.5 billion minutes. Explaining their process, Nielsen mentioned minutes are used for comparison as 'it's the great equalizer across dissimilar program categories and ultimately shows how consumers are spending their viewing time.' Bluey made it to Nielsen's streaming charts for 143 weeks in a row since October 2022. One reason that helps the show to be on top is that its main audience includes young children who often watch the same episodes over and over again. On the other hand, shows like The White Lotus or Squid Game only have a few dozen episodes, while Bluey has a large collection of 154 episodes, which pushes its total viewing time. Created by Joe Brumm and produced by Ludo Studio in Queensland, Bluey first aired in 2018. The show became a global hit within one year of its release. In the US, it became a household name after it was added to Disney Junior and later Disney+. The animated series is made for preschoolers and follows the adventures of a lovable pup, Blue Heeler and her family. The show also gained popularity after many claimed it to be potentially appealing to dogs due to its favourable colour palette. While the makers didn't make any such claims, it still remains a go-to choice for many pet parents who stated that their pets visibly enjoy watching the show. Besides Bluey, other TV shows, including Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Supernatural, The Rookie, Reacher, and The White Lotus, also made it to the Nielsen list.
Mint
3 hours ago
- Mint
An Australian artist is painting huge murals on silos in the US Midwest
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — High atop a massive grain elevator in the middle of Minot, North Dakota, artist Guido van Helten swipes a concrete wall with a brush that looks more appropriate for painting a fence than creating a monumental mural. Back and forth van Helten brushes, focused on his work and not bothered by the sheer enormity of his task as he stands in a boom lift, 75 feet (23 meters) off the ground, and focused on a few square feet of a structure that stretches over most of a city block. 'When you use these old structures to kinda share stories and use them as a vehicle to carry an image of identity, it becomes part of the landscape,' he said. 'I've found that people have really adopted them and become really super proud of them.' The work on the former Union Silos is van Helten's latest effort to paint murals on a gigantic scale, with earlier projects on structures ranging from a dam in Australia to part of a former cooling tower at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Although he has created murals throughout the world, grain silos in the U.S. Midwest have been among his most frequent sites. 'I do enjoy the opportunity to uncover stories that are often kinda considered out of the way or flyover communities,' he said. Van Helten has been creating murals for years, working increasingly in the U.S. over the past seven years and around the world. The 38-year-old Brisbane native's interest in regional communities began in earnest after a mural he created years ago on a silo in an Australian town of 100 people. The new idea, he said, drew interest, and he began a series of commissions around Australia and the U.S. He uses a mineral silicate paint formulated to absorb and bond with concrete, and it lasts a long time. He mixes tones specific to the color of the wall and subtly layers the work so it blends in. 'I love the coloring of these buildings, so I don't want to fight with them, I don't want to change it, I don't want it to be bright. I want it to become part of the landscape,' he said. It's not a quick process, as van Helten initially meets with residents to learn about a community and then spends months slowly transforming what is usually the largest structure in a small town. He began painting in Minot in May with plans for a 360-degree mural that combines photography with painting to depict the people and culture of an area. The Minot elevator and silos were built in the 1950s and were an economic center for years before they ceased operations around the early 1990s. Van Helten isn't giving too much away about what his Minot mural will depict, but said he has been inspired by concepts of land and ownership while in North Dakota, from ranching and the oil field to Native American perspectives. Minot is a city of nearly 50,000 people and sits near the Bakken oil field and Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. 'It is really when you boil down to it in many ways about land and how different cultures interpret that and connect with it, and I feel it's really interesting in North Dakota because it is really such a big, open land,' the artist said. Much of the mural is still taking shape, but images of a barn and female figures are visible. Property owner Derek Hackett said the mural is 'a great way to take what is kind of a blighted property and be able to give it a face-lift and kind of resurrect its presence in our skyline." Soon the mural will be visible from almost anywhere in town, he said. The mural project is entirely donation-funded, costing about $350,000, about 85% of which is already raised, said Chelsea Gleich, a spokesperson for the project. 'It is uniquely ours, it's uniquely North Dakota and you'll never be able to find a piece just like this anywhere else,' she said.
