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Cocomelon, formerly checkgate, ThatsMEonTV and ABCkidTV, is an American YouTube channel and Web Series maintained by British company Moonbug Entertainment and founded on September 12, 2005 by Jay Jeon and his company Treasure Studio Inc., which was based in Irvine, California, United States.
It is the third most subscribed YouTube channel on YouTube and the second most subscribed channel in the United States. It is also the most subscribed kids and educational channel. It is also the first educational YouTube channel to hit 100 million subscribers.
The channel also has 11 other channels, those being Cocomelon en Español, CoComelon em Português, CoComelon 中文版, "'Cocomelon Pусский'", CoComelon Deutsch, CoComelon en Français, Cocomelon Arabic - كوكو ميلون اغاني اطفال, '"Cocomelon Hindi - बच्चों के गाने'", '"Cocomelon Bahasa Indonesia - Lagu Anak Anak'", CoComelon Italiano - Canzoni per Bambini, CoCoMelon MyGo! - Sign Language For Kids and CoComelon Hrvatska- Dječije pjesmice za djecu.
Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 History
- 2.1 Beginning
- 2.2 Increase in Popularity
- 2.3 Acquisition by Moonbug
- 3 PewDiePie vs Cocomelon
- 3.1 PewDiePie's Cocomelon Parody Intros
- 3.2 PewDiePie's diss track
- 3.3 Defeating PewDiePie
- 4 Copied
- 5 Trivia
- 6 Channel milestones
- 6.1 Subscriber Milestones
- 6.2 Video View Milestones
- 7 References
Videos[]
Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes consists of rhymes and kids songs played over 3D animations and primarily focuses on a family with three kids and their animal friends.. (sometimes a new person comes along.) As of April 2021, Cocomelon is the third or even the fourth fastest-growing channel in subscribers and the second or third fastest-growing in views, getting over 2 or 3 million subscribers and 2 to 4 billion views monthly.
As of December 19, 2023, Cocomelon has over 169 million subscribers and 173 billion total views, making it the most subscribed & most viewed channel in the education category. It is the first channel in the world to ever get over one billion views in one week.
History[]
Beginning[]
The channel that would later become Cocomelon began as ThatsMEonTV (known on YouTube as checkgate) on September 1, 2006, by Jay Jeon and his wife. Cocomelon uploaded their first two videos, two versions of the Alphabet Song, to YouTube in September of 2006. Nine months later, they uploaded another alphabet-based video, "Learning ABC Alphabet - Letter "K" - game". ThatsMEonTV almost exclusively created sporadic 2D educational videos about the alphabet and only used animals in the videos, before being rebranded as ABCkidTV in 2013. The first re-branding was also around the same time that the channel switched its focus to rhymes and songs. From 2016 onward, ABCkidTV began switching from 2D to 3D animations, and introduced humans alongside the animals.
Increase in Popularity[]
On August 18, 2018, the channel re-branded for the last time as Cocomelon. Starting that year, the channel started gaining more attention due to a change in the YouTube algorithm which allowed Cocomelon to grow at a high rate. The channel is now one of the fastest-growing channels as of 2023 (rivaled only by T-Series, MrBeast and SET India) with over 163 million subscribers. Despite this rapid growth, the channel has slowed down in subscriber growth but the reason is unknown.
Acquisition by Moonbug[]
On July 30, 2020, Moonbug Entertainment, the owner of Little Baby Bum, announced they acquired Cocomelon, alongside Blippi, another popular children's YouTube channel. Moonbug plans to add new characters to the videos and introduce toys and other merchandise. They also mentioned that they will focus on expanding Cocomelon's distribution globally in different languages and other platforms. Moonbug added Cocomelon on Netflix in 2020, which became one of the top rated shows on the service.
On December 12th, 2020 the channel reached 100 million subscribers, becoming the third YouTube channel to reach it.
PewDiePie vs Cocomelon[]
On June 1, 2020, PewDiePie made his first video on Cocomelon, discussing about how they might end up being the biggest channel on YouTube. He mentioned T-Series and wanted to "team up" with them to battle against Cocomelon. In addition, he said he would make a diss track on Cocomelon similar to the ones he made on T-Series.
PewDiePie's Cocomelon Parody Intros[]
In PewDiePie's first video on Cocomelon, he mentioned how he wanted to get as popular as Cocomelon and decided to start putting in intro parodies of Cocomelon's intro into his videos. They were similar to the actual intros used in Cocomelon's videos but instead feature Felix's voice shouting "PewDiePie!" as well as the name PewDiePie in a similar font to that of what Cocomelon uses. Many fans of PewDiePie also contributed, making their own logo parodies using animation. As a result, many compilations of these intro parodies were made which became quite popular.
PewDiePie's diss track[]
![Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes (20) Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes (20)](https://i0.wp.com/static.wikia.nocookie.net/youtube/images/9/91/Why-did-coco-get-taken-down-1614780943492.webp/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/230?cb=20210306183643)
On February 14, 2021, PewDiePie released a satirical diss track on Cocomelon named "Coco". Much like PewDiePie's other diss tracks on T-Series, it contains references which were satirical and joking in nature, with no harmful intentions. Although the diss track was targeted towards Cocomelon, it also jabs towards J.K Rowling and her comments towards transgender people, and Felix's past disputes with T-Series.
This was likely due to Felix not having much to say regarding Cocomelon because of the simple nature of their content. PewDiePie mentioned in the comments section that this would conclude the rivalry between him and Cocomelon, then later deleted on March 4, 2021.
Although well-received among fans of PewDiePie, the song became controversial due to the stuff Felix said regarding Cocomelon such as the disproportionate head-to-body ratio and making references towards "Bath Song", the most popular video on Cocomelon's channel and one of the most viewed videos on all of YouTube. He also pokes fun at the parents who let their kids watch Cocomelon, likely due to parents relying on YouTube as a "babysitter". The original music video for the song was taken down just four days after being uploaded on February 18, 2021, due to child harassment and bullying, which many fans argue against never was the intention.
This was due to PewDiePie appearing to use profanity in front of kids and having them repeat back. As of February 21, 2021, the song can still be found on Spotify. Cocomelon has yet to respond to the situation although they did stop posting on their Twitter likely due to PewDiePie's fanbase spamming on their posts.
Defeating PewDiePie[]
On April 25, 2021, Cocomelon surpassed PewDiePie in subscribers doing so almost 11 months after the battle began. It is now the third most subscribed channel on all of YouTube, only behind T-Series and MrBeast.
Copied[]
In 2019, Cocomelon uploaded a nursery rhyme called “Boo Boo Song” and was massively copied by other kids channels without any sign of credit. There are more than 50K videos about the song (excluding Cocomelon’s videos)
Trivia[]
- Cocomelon is currently the second slowest channel to have reached 100 million subscribers, doing so in 14 years, three months, and eleven days after the channel was created.
- It is one of the most viewed kid's shows on Netflix.[1]
- If you look up Cocomelon on the Wayback Machine on September 18, 2010, it is revealed that Cocomelon had once uploaded a video called "Mint Studio Wireless Computer Speaker" which was uploaded in October 2009, but it later got removed for unknown reasons.[2][3]
- Cocomelon was originally named Checkgate as indicated by the url.
- Cocomelon on average usually earns 1-2 million subscribers per month but in the past it earned as much as 3 million subscribers per month.
- Cocomelon was one of the first kids channels to be created on YouTube, being created in September 2006.
- PewDiePie and Cocomelon were at a subscriber battle once and fans still believe they are.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber Milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: May 16, 2016
- 2 million subscribers: September 17, 2017
- 3 million subscribers: January 1, 2018
- 4 million subscribers: February 1, 2018
- 5 million subscribers: March 8, 2018
- 6 million subscribers: April 2, 2018
- 7 million subscribers: April 27, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: May 15, 2018
- 9 million subscribers: June 2, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: June 17, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: June 28, 2018
- 12 million subscribers: July 9, 2018
- 13 million subscribers: July 20, 2018
- 14 million subscribers: July 27, 2018
- 15 million subscribers: August 4, 2018
- 16 million subscribers: August 12, 2018
- 17 million subscribers: August 19, 2018
- 18 million subscribers: August 28, 2018
- 19 million subscribers: September 7, 2018
- 20 million subscribers: September 16, 2018
- 21 million subscribers: September 26, 2018
- 22 million subscribers: October 6, 2018
- 23 million subscribers: October 16, 2018
- 24 million subscribers: October 24, 2018
- 25 million subscribers: November 2, 2018
- 26 million subscribers: November 10, 2018
- 27 million subscribers: November 19, 2018
- 28 million subscribers: November 29, 2018
- 29 million subscribers: December 8, 2018
- 30 million subscribers: December 19, 2018
- 31 million subscribers: December 29, 2018
- 32 million subscribers: January 8, 2019
- 33 million subscribers: January 16, 2019
- 34 million subscribers: January 23, 2019
- 35 million subscribers: January 31, 2019
- 36 million subscribers: February 7, 2019
- 37 million subscribers: February 16, 2019
- 38 million subscribers: February 24, 2019
- 39 million subscribers: March 5, 2019
- 40 million subscribers: March 14, 2019
- 41 million subscribers: March 23, 2019
- 42 million subscribers: March 31, 2019
- 43 million subscribers: April 8, 2019
- 44 million subscribers: April 15, 2019
- 45 million subscribers: April 22, 2019
- 46 million subscribers: April 29, 2019
- 47 million subscribers: May 8, 2019
- 48 million subscribers: May 17, 2019
- 49 million subscribers: May 28, 2019
- 50 million subscribers: June 7, 2019
- 51 million subscribers: June 18, 2019
- 52 million subscribers: June 29, 2019
- 53 million subscribers: July 14, 2019
- 54 million subscribers: August 7, 2019
- 55 million subscribers: August 9, 2019
- 56 million subscribers: August 12, 2019
- 57 million subscribers: August 14, 2019
- 58 million subscribers: August 25, 2019
- 59 million subscribers: September 5, 2019
- 60 million subscribers: September 17, 2019
- 61 million subscribers: September 28, 2019
- 62 million subscribers: October 7, 2019
- 63 million subscribers: October 18, 2019
- 64 million subscribers: October 31, 2019
- 65 million subscribers: November 12, 2019
- 66 million subscribers: November 24, 2019
- 67 million subscribers: December 7, 2019
- 68 million subscribers: December 20, 2019
- 69 million subscribers: January 1, 2020
- 70 million subscribers: January 15, 2020
- 71 million subscribers: January 23, 2020
- 72 million subscribers: February 2, 2020
- 73 million subscribers: February 12, 2020
- 74 million subscribers: February 23, 2020
- 75 million subscribers: March 7, 2020
- 76 million subscribers: March 17, 2020
- 77 million subscribers: March 28, 2020
- 78 million subscribers: April 7, 2020
- 79 million subscribers: April 18, 2020
- 80 million subscribers: April 29, 2020
- 81 million subscribers: May 8, 2020
- 82 million subscribers: May 17, 2020
- 83 million subscribers: May 25, 2020
- 84 million subscribers: June 2, 2020
- 85 million subscribers: June 12, 2020
- 86 million subscribers: June 21, 2020
- 87 million subscribers: July 1, 2020
- 88 million subscribers: July 13, 2020
- 89 million subscribers: July 26, 2020
- 90 million subscribers: August 8, 2020
- 91 million subscribers: August 19, 2020
- 92 million subscribers: August 30, 2020
- 93 million subscribers: September 10, 2020
- 94 million subscribers: September 20, 2020
- 95 million subscribers: October 5, 2020
- 96 million subscribers: October 16, 2020
- 97 million subscribers: October 29, 2020
- 98 million subscribers: November 13, 2020
- 99 million subscribers: November 28, 2020
- 100 million subscribers: December 12, 2020
- 101 million subscribers: December 24, 2020
- 102 million subscribers: January 4, 2021
- 103 million subscribers: January 17, 2021
- 104 million subscribers: January 31, 2021
- 105 million subscribers: February 12, 2021
- 106 million subscribers: February 26, 2021
- 107 million subscribers: March 11, 2021
- 108 million subscribers: March 25, 2021
- 109 million subscribers: April 11, 2021
- 110 million subscribers: April 25, 2021
- 111 million subscribers: May 8, 2021
- 112 million subscribers: May 23, 2021
- 113 million subscribers: June 8, 2021
- 114 million subscribers: June 25, 2021
- 115 million subscribers: July 7, 2021
- 116 million subscribers: July 23, 2021
- 117 million subscribers: August 14, 2021
- 118 million subscribers: September 8, 2021
- 119 million subscribers: October 1, 2021
- 120 million subscribers: October 22, 2021
- 121 million subscribers: November 5, 2021
- 122 million subscribers: November 17, 2021
- 123 million subscribers: December 1, 2021
- 124 million subscribers: December 14, 2021
- 125 million subscribers: December 25, 2021
- 126 million subscribers: January 4, 2022
- 127 million subscribers: January 15, 2022
- 128 million subscribers: January 26, 2022
- 129 million subscribers: February 11, 2022
- 130 million subscribers: February 25, 2022
- 131 million subscribers: March 11, 2022
- 132 million subscribers: March 27, 2022
- 133 million subscribers: April 9, 2022
- 134 million subscribers: April 24, 2022
- 135 million subscribers: May 6, 2022
- 136 million subscribers: May 22, 2022
- 137 million subscribers: June 9, 2022
- 138 million subscribers: June 26, 2022
- 139 million subscribers: July 12, 2022
- 140 million subscribers: July 30, 2022
- 141 million subscribers: August 15, 2022
- 142 million subscribers: August 30, 2022
- 143 million subscribers: September 14, 2022
- 144 million subscribers: October 2, 2022
- 145 million subscribers: October 17, 2022
- 146 million subscribers: November 1, 2022
- 147 million subscribers: November 14, 2022
- 148 million subscribers: November 24, 2022
- 149 million subscribers: December 7, 2022
- 150 million subscribers: December 20, 2022
- 151 million subscribers: January 3, 2023
- 152 million subscribers: January 16, 2023
- 153 million subscribers: January 28, 2023
- 154 million subscribers: February 10, 2023
- 155 million subscribers: February 24, 2023
- 156 million subscribers: March 15, 2023
- 157 million subscribers: April 2, 2023
- 158 million subscribers: April 18, 2023
- 159 million subscribers: May 13, 2023
- 160 million subscribers: June 2, 2023
- 161 million subscribers: June 19, 2023
- 162 million subscribers: July 5, 2023
- 163 million subscribers: July 25, 2023
- 164 million subscribers: August 16, 2023
- 165 million subscribers: September 6, 2023
- 166 million subscribers: September 28, 2023
- 167 million subscribers: October 25, 2023
- 168 million subscribers: November 21, 2023
- 169 million subscribers: December 15, 2023
- 170 million subscribers: January 4, 2024
- 171 million subscribers: January 27, 2024
- 172 million subscribers: February 19, 2024
- 173 million subscribers: March 16, 2024
- 174 million subscribers: April 10, 2024
- 175 million subscribers: May 5, 2024
Video View Milestones[]
- 1 billion views: June 1, 2016
- 2 billion views: November 14, 2017
- 3 billion views: February 15, 2018
- 4 billion views: April 13, 2018
- 5 billion views: May 28, 2018
- 6 billion views: June 29, 2018
- 7 billion views: July 23, 2018
- 8 billion views: August 9, 2018
- 9 billion views: August 25, 2018
- 10 billion views: September 12, 2018
- 11 billion views: September 30, 2018
- 12 billion views: October 16, 2018
- 13 billion views: November 1, 2018
- 14 billion views: November 17, 2018
- 15 billion views: December 3, 2018
- 16 billion views: December 27, 2018
- 17 billion views: January 11, 2019
- 18 billion views: January 22, 2019
- 19 billion views: February 2, 2019
- 20 billion views: February 13, 2019
- 21 billion views: February 24, 2019
- 22 billion views: March 8, 2019
- 23 billion views: March 20, 2019
- 24 billion views: March 31, 2019
- 25 billion views: April 11, 2019
- 26 billion views: April 20, 2019
- 27 billion views: May 1, 2019
- 28 billion views: May 12, 2019
- 29 billion views: May 23, 2019
- 30 billion views: June 4, 2019
- 31 billion views: June 15, 2019
- 32 billion views: June 26, 2019
- 33 billion views: July 10, 2019
- 34 billion views: August 1, 2019
- 35 billion views: August 10, 2019
- 36 billion views: August 15, 2019
- 37 billion views: August 26, 2019
- 38 billion views: September 9, 2019
- 39 billion views: September 22, 2019
- 40 billion views: October 3, 2019
- 41 billion views: October 15, 2019
- 42 billion views: October 27, 2019
- 43 billion views: November 9, 2019
- 44 billion views: November 22, 2019
- 45 billion views: December 4, 2019
- 46 billion views: December 17, 2019
- 47 billion views: December 30, 2019
- 48 billion views: January 12, 2020
- 49 billion views: January 22, 2020
- 50 billion views: February 2, 2020
- 51 billion views: February 12, 2020
- 52 billion views: February 22, 2020
- 53 billion views: March 5, 2020
- 54 billion views: March 14, 2020
- 55 billion views: March 24, 2020
- 56 billion views: April 1, 2020
- 57 billion views: April 9, 2020
- 58 billion views: April 18, 2020
- 59 billion views: April 27, 2020
- 60 billion views: May 3, 2020
- 61 billion views: May 10, 2020
- 62 billion views: May 17, 2020
- 63 billion views: May 23, 2020
- 64 billion views: May 29, 2020
- 65 billion views: June 6, 2020
- 66 billion views: June 15, 2020
- 67 billion views: June 22, 2020
- 68 billion views: June 29, 2020
- 69 billion views: July 8, 2020
- 70 billion views: July 17, 2020
- 71 billion views: July 26, 2020
- 72 billion views: August 5, 2020
- 73 billion views: August 14, 2020
- 74 billion views: August 22, 2020
- 75 billion views: August 30, 2020
- 76 billion views: September 7, 2020
- 77 billion views: September 16, 2020
- 78 billion views: September 24, 2020
- 79 billion views: October 2, 2020
- 80 billion views: October 11, 2020
- 81 billion views: October 19, 2020
- 82 billion views: October 27, 2020
- 83 billion views: November 7, 2020
- 84 billion views: November 17, 2020
- 85 billion views: November 27, 2020
- 86 billion views: December 6, 2020
- 87 billion views: December 16, 2020
- 88 billion views: December 25, 2020
- 89 billion views: January 3, 2021
- 90 billion views: January 13, 2021
- 91 billion views: January 23, 2021
- 92 billion views: February 1, 2021
- 93 billion views: February 10, 2021
- 94 billion views: February 20, 2021
- 95 billion views: March 2, 2021
- 96 billion views: March 12, 2021
- 97 billion views: March 22, 2021
- 98 billion views: April 2, 2021
- 99 billion views: April 19, 2021
- 100 billion views: April 30, 2021
- 101 billion views: May 12, 2021
- 102 billion views: May 25, 2021
- 103 billion views: June 9, 2021
- 104 billion views: June 24, 2021
- 105 billion views: July 6, 2021
- 106 billion views: July 19, 2021
- 107 billion views: August 2, 2021
- 108 billion views: August 25, 2021
- 109 billion views: September 13, 2021
- 110 billion views: October 1, 2021
- 111 billion views: October 21, 2021
- 112 billion views: November 4, 2021
- 113 billion views: November 15, 2021
- 114 billion views: November 26, 2021
- 115 billion views: December 8, 2021
- 116 billion views: December 18, 2021
- 117 billion views: December 27, 2021
- 118 billion views: January 6, 2022
- 119 billion views: January 15, 2022
- 120 billion views: January 24, 2022
- 121 billion views: February 3, 2022
- 122 billion views: February 14, 2022
- 123 billion views: February 26, 2022
- 124 billion views: March 10, 2022
- 125 billion views: March 23, 2022
- 126 billion views: April 6, 2022
- 127 billion views: April 20, 2022
- 128 billion views: May 2, 2022
- 129 billion views: May 15, 2022
- 130 billion views: May 29, 2022
- 131 billion views: June 12, 2022
- 132 billion views: June 24, 2022
- 133 billion views: July 6, 2022
- 134 billion views: July 18, 2022
- 135 billion views: August 1, 2022
- 136 billion views: August 14, 2022
- 137 billion views: August 26, 2022
- 138 billion views: September 7, 2022
- 139 billion views: September 19, 2022
- 140 billion views: October 2, 2022
- 141 billion views: October 14, 2022
- 142 billion views: October 27, 2022
- 143 billion views: November 8, 2022
- 144 billion views: November 21, 2022
- 145 billion views: December 1, 2022
- 146 billion views: December 12, 2022
- 147 billion views: December 25, 2022
- 148 billion views: January 6, 2023
- 149 billion views: January 17, 2023
- 150 billion views: January 30, 2023
- 151 billion views: February 8, 2023
- 152 billion views: February 17, 2023
- 153 billion views: February 26, 2023
- 154 billion views: March 09, 2023
- 155 billion views: March 20, 2023
- 156 billion views: April 1, 2023
- 157 billion views: April 12, 2023
- 158 billion views: April 22, 2023
- 159 billion views: May 4, 2023
- 160 billion views: May 19, 2023
- 161 billion views: June 1, 2023
- 162 billion views: June 13, 2023
- 163 billion views: June 27, 2023
- 164 billion views: July 13, 2023
- 165 billion views: July 28, 2023
- 166 billion views: August 12, 2023
- 167 billion views: August 29, 2023
- 168 billion views: September 11, 2023
- 169-170 billion views: October 18, 2023
- 171-172 billion views: November 19, 2023
- 173 billion views: December 18, 2023
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