Wengie

Wendy Jie Huang (Chinese: 文洁; pinyin: Wénjié), better known as Wengie, (born 9 January 1986) is a Chinese Australian YouTuber, vlogger, pop singer, and voice actress.[2][3] As of 2018, her YouTube channel has over 14 million subscribers, making her the most popular YouTuber from Australia.[4][5] Her channel was the 6th most subscribed "how-to and style" channel on YouTube, as of January 2018.[6]

Wengie
Wengie at the Create Your Summer Tour in 2018
Personal information
BornWénjié Huang[1]
(1986-01-09) 9 January 1986
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
NationalityAustralian
OccupationYouTuber, singer
Websitewww.wengie.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
GenreBeauty, fashion, DIY, life hacks, pranks
Subscribers14.1million subscribers
Total views1.73 billion views
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers
10,000,000 subscribers
50,000,000 subscribers
Updated: 9 July 2020

Career

YouTube

In 2013, Wengie started the YouTube channel, "Wengie", inspired by her Chinese name, Wenjie. Her videos focused on beauty, fashion, and "Do It Yourself" (DIY) tips. As of 2016, she was one of the fastest-growing stars on YouTube, having garnered over 4 million subscribers in three years. Throughout 2018, she has focused on "Do It Yourself" videos, prank videos, and slime videos. She has earned over 1.2 billion views over her YouTube career. [7] Her YouTube channel was awarded "Best Channel" and "Overall Winner" at the 2017 Australian Online Video Awards.[8]

In 2013, Wengie created a second YouTube channel called "WengieVlogs". As of November 2017, WengieVlogs has 1.7 million subscribers and 53 million views. In October 2018, she changed the channel's name to "Wendie ft. Wengie". She then changed the name to "Wengie’s Life" about a year later.[9]

In 2016, Wengie created a YouTube channel named "Jumbo Bunny ", where her engaged YouTube boyfriend Max did "Do It Yourself" (DIY). She later changed it to 'ReactiCorns', where Max (her fiancé) and Wengie react to funny texts, Tik Tok Hacks, Quizzes etc.

Music

Wengie released her first single, "Baby Believe Me" in China on 13 July 2017. It debuted at number 11 and peaked at number 6 on the Chinese music charts.[10]

She released another song on YouTube under the channel Wengie Music Asia on 25 November 2017, entitled "Oh I Do". As of 29 November 2017, the music video had over 9,100,000 views.[11]

On 10 July 2018, she released the song "Cake". This was her first English single and was released on her YouTube Channel "Wengie Music". The song has over 12 million views.[12]

On 15 September 2018, Wengie released her second English single entitled "Deja vu". The song reached over 10 million views as of December 2020

On 17 November 2018, she released her first Christmas single "Ugly Christmas Sweater", which has over 10 million views as of December 2020

On 9 March 2019, Wengie released her 4th English single "Lace Up".

On 4 May 2019, Wengie released the single "Mr. Nice Guy", which featured Filipino singer Iñigo Pascual.[13]

On 1 June 2019, Wengie released her single "Talk Talk" featuring music producer and songwriter David Amber. The song has over 5 million views.

She also released her first Korean-language single, "Empire", on 18 October. The song features Thai singer Minnie from K-pop girl group (G)I-dle.[14]

On 1 May 2020, she sang on a remix of the song Learn to Meow by XiaoPanPan and XiaoFengFeng.[15]

On November 6, 2020 Wengie released her debut EP, "Collabs Vol. 1 (Int'l Ver.)", featuring the previous singles she recorded with multiple artists from various countries across the world, which each track representing a different country. Alongside the EP, she released the song "Thing You Want" as her fifth and final single off the project. Following the theme of her previous singles, "Thing You Want" is sung in Hindi, and features the Indian singer Shalmali Kholgade and Indian rapper Ikka.

Voice acting

In 2017, Wengie was the voice of Blisstina "Bliss" Utonium in the Australian and New Zealand versions of The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series): Power of Four, a five-part TV movie.[2]

Following

Wengie's main YouTube channel was created on 9 September 2010. Since then, she has attracted over 14.2 million fans and over 1.6 billion views as of September 2020.

One of her latest videos released on 26 September 2020 "Testing Hair Hacks From 5 Minute Crafts" has reached 21K likes and over 2K views within just 48 hours.

Personal life

Wengie moved to Australia with her grandparents as a child. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia, Los Angeles, California and China.[16] She has been engaged to her partner Max since 13 August 2015.[17]

Discography

Extended plays
Title EP details
Collabs Vol. 1 (Int'l Ver.)

References
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  2. Bisset, Jennifer (17 September 2017). "How YouTube star Wengie became the fourth Powerpuff Girl". CNET. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. Wengie Vlogs (14 January 2017), Birthday Vlog 2017 !!, archived from the original on 16 July 2018, retrieved 28 November 2017
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  10. 黄文洁Wengie单曲《Baby Believe Me》发布-搜狐音乐. Sohu (in Chinese). 13 July 2017. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. Eridio, Casey (5 May 2019). "WATCH: Iñigo Pascual drops 'Mr. Nice Guy' music videos with YouTube star Wengie". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  14. Herman, Tamar (18 October 2019). "Wengie Teams Up with (G)I-dle's Minnie on Powerful 'Empire': Watch". Billboard. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  15. Wengie (Ft. XiaoFengFeng & XiaoPanPan) – Learn To Meow (EDM Version) [学猫叫], retrieved 3 September 2020
  16. Ma, Wenlei (19 September 2017). "Massive Aussie star you've never heard of". News.Com.Au. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGn4dnTkHs
  18. "Announcement for Collabs Vol. 1 on the Wengie's Instagram". Instagram. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
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