Bluey: Australian cartoon tops US streaming charts for 2024
Bluey: Australian cartoon tops US streaming charts for 2024
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The series about a family of blue heelers racked up an extraordinary 55.62 billion viewing minutes – but has yet to announce a new season. Australian-made animated series Bluey was the most streamed show in the US in 2024, topping Nielsen’s annual year-end streaming charts, released this week.
US viewers watched 55.62bn minutes of the 7-minute show on Disney+ according to Nielsen’s reporting, just shy of the all-time yearly record of 57.7bn minutes set by Suits in 2023. The Nielsen numbers cap a massive year for Bluey, which never fell off the top ten on streaming charts and ended 2024 by announcing a full-length movie, due to hit cinemas in 2027.
It was bittersweet news for fans, with the show’s creator, Brisbane animator Joe Brumm, revealing in a blogpost soon after the announcement that while he would write and direct the movie adaptation, he was stepping away from the TV series. A fourth season has yet to be announced, but when questioned about the show’s future last April, Bluey producer Sam Moor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It is not the end for Bluey. I’m sure we have many more surprises in store for you.”.
A spokesperson for ABC (who originally co-commissioned the series with BBC, and who is the Australian streamer) also confirmed: “We have no plans to end the show.”. A fair chunk of Bluey’s extraordinary 2024 streaming numbers can be attributed to its hugely popular season three finale The Sign, a 28-minute special episode released in April. According to Disney+, the Sign drew 10.4m views globally in its first seven days of availability, making it the most-viewed Disney Junior episode premiere ever.
