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Top 50 Most Watched Nickelodeon Programs of 2013

SpongeBob SquarePants

With 2013 coming to close in just days, we’re taking a look back at the year – in TV ratings! We started off with Disney Channel yesterday, now today we move on to Nickelodeon…

Of course, like always, Nick has to thank SpongeBob for their overall ratings success. Even though Nick is still below Disney Channel in demos, Nick does maintain a slight lead with viewers – all thanks to the yellow-one. SpongeBob SquarePants scored 43 of Nick’s top 50 programs for the year.

The other seven? Well, the Kids’ Choice Awards stands at #1 for the year, yes ahead of SpongeBob, with 5.8 million total viewers. Swindle was the next non-SpongeBob program of the year in sixth place. June’s Sam & Cat premiere ranks at #10. The season premiere of Fairly OddParents fills in at the #22 spot. Half of the Nick premiere of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ranked in at #27. Surprising for some, the Nick premiere of The Last Airbender movie from 2010 placed #31 for the year. The last non-SpongeBob program was a re-airing of the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie at #35.

Even if we had posted the top 500 programs aired on Nickelodeon this year, SpongeBob still accounts for 448 of them (89.6%), and the fact that Nick aired a grand total of 5 new half-hours of SpongeBob this year means that 443 of those 448 showings are repeats.

UPDATE: We received a request to post the top 50 non-SpongeBob ratings for Nickelodeon this year. That chart is at the bottom.

The ratings chart follows below these notes:

Please Note: In the Nielsen TV world, the year 2013 runs from 12/31/2012 to 12/29/2013. Therefore, three days of data (12/27-29/13) is currently unavailable as of this writing. If anything aired between these days scores enough viewers to be placed in the chart below, we’ll update later next week with the corrected information.

Also, this data would be impossible to collect if it wasn’t for the wonderful set of information provided all year by Son of the Bronx. Please make sure to follow that site and Douglas Pucci (@SonOfTheBronx) on Twitter for more great TV ratings!

Rank Program Date Time Total Viewers (age 2+) in millions
1 Kids’ Choice Awards 2013 3/23/2013 8:00PM 5.821
2 SpongeBob SquarePants 11/11/2013 7:00PM 5.186
3 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/2/2013 10:30AM 4.734
4 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/19/2013 10:30AM 4.366
5 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/2/2013 10:00AM 4.305
6 Swindle 8/24/2013 8:00PM 4.191
7 SpongeBob SquarePants 5/25/2013 10:00AM 4.181
8 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/26/2013 10:30AM 4.179
9 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/23/2013 10:30AM 4.162
10 Sam & Cat 6/8/2013 8:00PM 4.156
11 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/16/2013 10:30AM 4.091
12 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/16/2013 10:00AM 4.080
13 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/23/2013 10:00AM 4.061
14 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/9/2013 10:30AM 4.041
15 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/23/2013 10:30AM 3.992
16 SpongeBob SquarePants 11/23/2013 10:00AM 3.962
17 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/23/2013 10:00AM 3.942
18 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/24/2013 10:30AM 3.939
19 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/19/2013 10:00AM 3.935
20 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/9/2013 10:00AM 3.921
21 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/2/2013 10:00AM 3.908
22 The Fairly OddParents 3/23/2013 7:30PM 3.896
23 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/26/2013 10:00AM 3.865
24 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/12/2013 5:30PM 3.819
25 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/16/2013 10:30AM 3.810
26 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/9/2013 10:30AM 3.807
27 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 11/27/2013 7:00PM 3.800
28 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/2/2013 9:00AM 3.783
29 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/2/2013 9:30AM 3.777
30 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/16/2013 9:30AM 3.773
31 The Last Airbender (2010) 1/21/2013 6:00PM 3.750
32 SpongeBob SquarePants 12/7/2013 10:00AM 3.726
33 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/23/2013 9:30AM 3.712
34 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/2/2013 10:30AM 3.710
35 Scooby-Doo (2002) 3/14/2013 7:00PM 3.705
36 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/16/2013 10:00AM 3.705
37 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/1/2013 7:00PM 3.704
38 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/19/2013 7:00PM 3.696
39 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/24/2013 10:00AM 3.684
40 SpongeBob SquarePants 2/16/2013 9:00AM 3.683
41 SpongeBob SquarePants 11/9/2013 10:00AM 3.680
42 SpongeBob SquarePants 5/25/2013 9:45AM 3.678
43 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/3/2013 10:30AM 3.677
44 SpongeBob SquarePants 9/28/2013 10:00AM 3.663
45 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/19/2013 9:30AM 3.642
46 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/12/2013 10:00AM 3.625
47 SpongeBob SquarePants 4/13/2013 10:30AM 3.622
48 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/9/2013 5:30PM 3.603
49 SpongeBob SquarePants 3/9/2013 9:00AM 3.600
50 SpongeBob SquarePants 1/26/2013 9:30AM 3.588

Ratings based on Live+SD data only. Includes all programming, both new and repeat.

We received a request to post the top 50 non-SpongeBob ratings for Nickelodeon this year. Here’s that list:

Program Date Time P2+
Kids’ Choice Awards 2013 3/23/2013 8:00PM 5.821
Swindle 8/24/2013 8:00PM 4.191
Sam & Cat 6/8/2013 8:00PM 4.156
The Fairly OddParents 3/23/2013 7:30PM 3.896
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 11/27/2013 7:00PM 3.800
The Last Airbender (2010) 1/21/2013 6:00PM 3.750
Scooby-Doo (2002) 3/14/2013 7:00PM 3.705
Sanjay and Craig 5/25/2013 10:30AM 3.559
Over the Hedge (2006) 2/18/2013 7:00PM 3.416
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/23/2013 11:00AM 3.400
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 11/27/2013 8:00PM 3.389
VICTORiOUS 1/5/2013 8:00PM 3.382
Sam & Cat 7/13/2013 8:00PM 3.378
The Haunted Hathaways 7/13/2013 8:30PM 3.349
Sam & Cat 7/20/2013 8:00PM 3.288
Sanjay and Craig 11/16/2013 10:30AM 3.241
Sanjay and Craig 11/9/2013 10:30AM 3.222
The Fairly OddParents 6/22/2013 9:30AM 3.218
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3/23/2013 11:00AM 3.212
The Fairly OddParents 6/1/2013 9:30AM 3.192
Jinxed 11/29/2013 7:00PM 3.185
Sam & Cat 6/20/2013 7:00PM 3.162
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 8/8/2013 8:00PM 3.143
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3/17/2013 11:00AM 3.139
Monsters vs. Aliens 3/23/2013 9:30PM 3.129
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3/24/2013 11:00AM 3.124
Sam & Cat 6/22/2013 8:00PM 3.105
The Fairly OddParents 5/4/2013 9:30AM 3.103
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/16/2013 11:00AM 3.085
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/9/2013 11:00AM 3.076
Sanjay and Craig 6/1/2013 10:30AM 3.074
Sanjay and Craig 9/21/2013 10:30AM 3.057
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4/27/2013 11:00AM 3.052
The Fairly OddParents 5/11/2013 9:30AM 3.045
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1/5/2013 11:00AM 3.039
The Fairly OddParents 6/15/2013 9:30AM 3.034
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3/2/2013 11:00AM 3.028
Sam & Cat 11/2/2013 8:00PM 3.016
VICTORiOUS 1/26/2013 8:00PM 3.013
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/2/2013 11:00AM 3.012
Sanjay and Craig 11/23/2013 10:30AM 3.011
Sanjay and Craig 6/22/2013 10:30AM 2.988
The Fairly OddParents 10/19/2013 9:30AM 2.961
Sanjay and Craig 5/26/2013 10:30AM 2.959
Sanjay and Craig 7/13/2013 10:30AM 2.959
Sam & Cat 6/29/2013 8:00PM 2.958
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/23/2013 11:30AM 2.949
Sanjay and Craig 9/28/2013 10:30AM 2.941
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1/19/2013 11:00AM 2.935
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4/13/2013 11:00AM 2.933