50 Fun Facts About Cocomelon

What is the name of Cocomelon's main toddler character?

He is the youngest of three siblings, wears blue and likes sharks.

What colour does JJ always wear?

Each Melon Patch Academy kid has a signature colour: Cody green, Cece pink, Nina yellow, Bella purple, Nico red.

Which animal does JJ like best?

Cody likes dinosaurs, Nico lions and Nina rabbits.

What toy does JJ use to imagine and play pretend?

The Melon Patch Academy kids join in his imagined adventures.

What is the name of the preschool the Cocomelon kids attend?

Miss Appleberry teaches them ABCs, 123s, shapes and colours there.

Who is the teacher at the Cocomelon preschool?

In the live-action Cocomelon Classroom she is played by 2021 US National Teacher of the Year Juliana Urtubey.

Which Cocomelon character wears green and likes dinosaurs?

He is JJ's best friend and got his own weekly spin-off, It's Cody Time, in May 2022.

Which character speaks both Spanish and English and wears yellow?

Her spin-off Nina's Familia centres on her Mexican American family.

Which character wears purple and loves unicorns?

Her dad Evan is voiced by Alex Barima.

Which ginger-haired boy wears red, likes lions and loves being loud?

His father Max is voiced by James Kirk.

What are the names of JJ's older brother and sister?

TomTom likes fixing things; YoYo invents games and does arts and crafts.

Which character plays with cats and wears pink?

Her grandparents are voiced by Jean Yoon and James Yi.

Who voices JJ?

Brian Drummond voices both JJ's dad and JJ's grandpa.

Which company operates the Cocomelon channel?

The British firm bought Cocomelon and Blippi together for $120 million in July 2020.

Which company bought Moonbug in 2021 for a reported $3 billion?

Candle is run by former Disney executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs with Blackstone's backing.

In what year was the YouTube channel that became Cocomelon created?

It launched on September 1, a month before Google bought YouTube.

What was the channel's original YouTube username?

It was rebranded ABC Kid TV in 2013 and Cocomelon in 2018.

What was the channel called from 2013 until the 2018 rebrand?

In that era it remastered old videos and shifted from alphabet lessons to nursery rhymes.

Who created the channel in 2006?

He and his wife ran it as a hobby for years; even their neighbours did not know they owned it.

What did the channel's first two videos teach?

Both were versions of the ABC song, one 'with Cute Ending'.

Which nursery rhyme got the channel's first 3D character, in April 2016?

Later that year videos got longer and some used motion capture.

Which 2017 video became Cocomelon's most-viewed, passing a billion views?

TomTom uses stuffed animals to get JJ ready for bed in it.

Which Cocomelon video was the most recommended in a 2018 Pew Research study of YouTube?

By September 2020 it had 3.2 billion views, the 19th most-viewed video on the site.

What was the name of the company Jay Jeon sold to Moonbug in July 2020?

It employed only about 20 people when it was sold.

What was the Jeons' earlier online business that put children's photos into DVDs?

Early video titles on the channel carried the website's address.

Which YouTuber released a diss track called 'Coco' as Cocomelon closed in on his subscriber count?

YouTube removed the video under its harassment and child-safety policies; Cocomelon passed him in April 2021.

In what month did Cocomelon become the third channel to reach 100,000,000 subscribers?

It finished 2019 with 67.4 million after the second-largest subscriber gain on the platform that year.

Which streaming service first carried Cocomelon episodes in June 2020?

The three hour-long episodes reached parents who did not let their kids watch YouTube; it ranked as the service's third most popular show that September.

What is the narrative streaming series set in JJ's universe called?

Premiering November 17, 2023, it let the characters speak directly to the audience for the first time.

Which spin-off focuses on Latine culture and bilingual content?

About 70% of its episodes are in English and 30% use some Spanish.

What was the first live-action title in the franchise, launched in September 2024?

Its teacher is played by Juliana Urtubey, a real National Teacher of the Year.

Which 2021 spin-off features JJ's favourite creatures?

It is also known as Cocomelon Animal Time.

Which toy maker partnered with Cocomelon on plush dolls and vehicles in 2020?

The push into toys came as YouTube's children's-ad changes cut top kids' channels' revenue by an estimated 50-60%.

Which sportswear brand launched a Cocomelon apparel and footwear line in 2023?

It included individual sneakers for JJ, Nina and Cody.

In which city did the 'Cocomelon Town' attraction open in 2021?

It was part of the Riyadh Season festival and ran for three months across five sites.

With which platform did Cocomelon launch its Story Time podcast in 2022?

It is only available through the Spotify Family Plan, in five language versions.

Which celebrity-video platform offered AI-generated Cocomelon character messages from 2023?

The kids' messages use preset scripts with the child's name spoken via text-to-speech.

What was the US live tour launched in June 2023 called?

Tickets were required for everyone aged 12 months and up.

Which studio signed on to distribute the Cocomelon movie announced for February 19, 2027?

DreamWorks Animation produces with Moonbug, and DNEG Animation handles the animation.

Which Chinese company was ordered to pay $23,400,000 for copying Cocomelon in 2023?

YouTube later removed its Super JoJo channel.

What age range is Cocomelon aimed at?

A staff-only guide of about 100 pages lays out the backstory and characters.

How many daily viewers did Cocomelon average worldwide in mid-2019?

The four major US broadcast networks averaged just 13 million a day that TV season.

Which US law's 2019 settlement forced YouTube to change how it treats children's content?

YouTube paid a $170 million fine and Cocomelon's weekly views roughly halved in the following weeks.

How much did Moonbug pay for Cocomelon and Blippi together in July 2020?

A year later Moonbug itself sold to Candle Media for a reported $3 billion.

Which other nursery-rhyme YouTube channel did Moonbug buy in 2018?

The estimated $9 million deal came before Cocomelon; Moonbug also owns Blippi and My Magic Pet Morphle.

In which US state did reporters trace Cocomelon's then-secret owners?

Wired found a couple in Irvine; Bloomberg identified an Orange County couple in 2020.

How many stars out of five did Common Sense Media give the Cocomelon TV series?

It rated the show for ages 2 and up and noted some 'inconsistencies' in how the babies talk.

Which streaming service was Cocomelon slated to join on January 1, 2027?

Disney Jr. began airing it as a short-form series in August 2026.

As of April 2026, where did Cocomelon rank among YouTube's most-subscribed channels?

It was second by total views, with more than 220 billion.

Which Guardian writer said Cocomelon 'is like crack' for preschoolers?

He conceded the songs let parents 'sneak off and cook dinner'.