Seven of the top 10 most popular videos on YouTube Kids are children’s songs. “Baby Shark” has been played more than 4 billion times, and the content of children’s songs is getting more and more attention.

Editor’s note: This article is from the WeChat public account “Blue Magic Cube Children” (ID: lmfkid), author Dkphhh.

Children’s songs for children are becoming a big business.

Last week, YouTube released a one-year review video Rewind 2019 as usual. Traditional categories such as games, dance, Vlog, and beauty still dominate YouTube’s 2019. But in some segments, we find that child-oriented content is becoming more and more popular on YouTube.

For example, YouTube ’s most popular game, the fifth place is Roblox, and the first place is Minecraft. Both of these games are mainly children. And the third most popular creator of the year, Pencilmation is a children’s animation channel.

In September, YouTube also announced a $ 100 million investment to help content creators create original children’s content.

Children ’s song content is becoming a big business? The top ten miles of YouTube children ’s play volume are children's songs

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Under the broad category of child-oriented content, the hottest area this year is without a doubt children’s songs.

YouTube Kids also announced the Top 10 most popular videos on the platform last week. Seven of the top 10 videos are children’s songs.

Children ’s song content is becoming a big business? The top ten miles of YouTube children ’s play volume are children's songs

YouTube Kids is a special version of YouTube for kids, which simplifies the operation interface and adds parental controls.Only child-oriented video content is retained.

Because the YouTube Kids front desk does not display the playback volume, the video playback volume in the table is from YouTube for reference only.

The most popular video on YouTube Kids this year is Cocomelon’s “This is the way + More Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs.” This nursery rhyme video is a 37-minute nursery rhyme collection that contains 13 nursery rhymes.

Children ’s song content is becoming a big business? The top ten miles of YouTube children ’s play volume are children's songs

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