Most Viewed Kids Songs on Youtube
Last Updated: 3rd July 2026
Want proof of how far nursery rhymes have travelled? Look at YouTube. Several of the most-watched videos in the site's entire history are not music videos or film trailers but nursery rhymes and kids' songs, each with billions of views to its name. Here is the current ranking of the most-viewed kids' songs of all time.
| Rank | Nursery Rhyme | Uploader | Year of Origin | View Count (billions) | Rank: all videos on Youtube |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Baby Shark Dance | Pinkfong Kids' Songs & Stories | 2016 | 17.06 | 1 |
| 2. | Wheels on the Bus | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | 2018 | 9.06 | 2 |
| 3. | Bath Song | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | 2018 | 7.50 | 4 |
| 4. | Johny Johny Yes Papa | LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes & Children's Songs | 2016 | 7.20 | 5 |
| 5. | Phonics Song with Two Words | ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs | 2014 | 6.99 | 7 |
| 6. | Axel F | Crazy Frog | N/A | 5.96 | 10 |
| 7. | Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm | Miroshka TV | 2018 | 5.45 | 12 |
| 8. | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | 2018 | 4.79 | 15 |
| 9. | Lakdi Ki Kathi | Jingle Toons | 2018 | 4.58 | 17 |
| 10. | Humpty the train on a fruits ride | Kiddiestv Hindi - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs | 2018 | 4.41 | 20 |
| 11. | Baby Shark | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | 2017 | 4.39 | 22 |
| 12. | The Gummy Bear Song | Gummibär (The Official Gummibär Channel) | 2007 | ~3.94 | Outside Top 30 |
These numbers are correct as of June 2026. The view count is just for the top viewed video, not a sum of all videos for that song.
Our Take
Since we first logged these counts in October 2022, the fastest riser has been 'Wheels on the Bus'. It has climbed from the 12th most-viewed YouTube video of all time to 2nd, more than doubling its count from 4.4 billion views to 9.06 billion along the way.
Baby Shark remains the clear leader, and not only on its original upload. Cover versions and re-uploads pile billions of further views on top of the 17 billion the Pinkfong video has gathered on its own.
Cocomelon is the other giant on this list. The channel has a real knack for spinning a single idea into many, releasing variations on a theme (like the 'Yes Yes Vegetables' song) that each pull in billions of views in their own right.
Why Kids' Songs Rule YouTube
YouTube is saturated with nursery rhymes and kids' songs, and a handful of things explain why they dominate so completely.
The first is the songs themselves. Tunes like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Wheels on the Bus" have survived for generations because they simply work: short, repetitive, and easy for a toddler to follow at the very age when language and memory are still forming.
They are also quietly educational. Many double as a first lesson in counting, letters, colours or shapes, and singing along builds vocabulary at the same time. Parents actively search for exactly this kind of content, which hands the videos a huge and motivated audience.
Then there is sheer access. Phones and tablets have put an endless playlist in every living room, and the channels that win out are the ones that make old songs feel bright, colourful and worth watching a hundred times over.
The Big Business Behind the Rhymes
There is real money behind the sing-alongs. The biggest channels earn from several directions at once:
- Advertising: through the YouTube Partner Program, ads run against the videos and pay out based on views. At a billion-view scale, that alone is a serious income.
- Merchandise: popular channels build out toy lines, books, clothing and character brands that reach well beyond the screen.
- Sponsorships: brands pay to feature their products inside videos, buying a direct line to families.
All of it operates under strict rules. Content aimed at children has to follow regulations like COPPA (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), which governs what creators are allowed to collect from and show to young viewers.
How Animation Makes These Songs Pop
You cannot really separate these songs from the way they look. Animation is a big part of why the modern versions took off at all.
Bright colours, expressive characters and constant motion hold a small child's attention in a way that audio alone never could. Whether it is simple 2D or polished 3D, the visuals drag centuries-old verses into the present and make them feel brand new.
Animation also leaves room for imagination. Rather than just singing about Mary's little lamb, a video can show it bouncing along beside her to school, turning a familiar rhyme into something a child will happily watch again and again.