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Wengie
Wengie at RISE in 2019
Personal information
Born
Wénjié Huang

(1986-01-09) 9 January 1986 (age 38)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
NationalityAustralian
Occupations
Websitewww.wengie.com
www.iamwraya.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genres
  • Beauty
  • fashion
  • DIY
  • life hacks
  • pranks
Subscribers13.7 million subscribers[1]
Total views1.88 billion views[1]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers
10,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 25 October 2022

Wendy Jie Huang (Chinese: 文洁; pinyin: Wénjié), better known as Wengie or WRAYA, (born 9 January 1986) is a Chinese Australian YouTuber, vlogger, pop singer, and voice actress.[2][3]

Career

YouTube

In 2013, Huang 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 focused on DIY videos, prank videos, and slime videos. She has earned over 1.8 billion views over her YouTube career.[4] Her YouTube channel was awarded "Best Channel" and "Overall Winner" at the 2017 Australian Online Video Awards.[5]

In 2013, Wengie created a second YouTube channel called "WengieVlogs". As of November 2017, WengieVlogs had 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.[6]

In 2018, she was the most popular YouTuber from Australia with 11.5 million subscribers.[7][8] Her channel was the 6th most subscribed "how-to and style" channel on YouTube in January 2018.[9] As of 2022, her YouTube channel has 13.7 million subscribers.

Music

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Wengie

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 2024, the music video had over 11 million 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 13 million views.[12] On 4 May 2019, Wengie released her first Filipino-language single "Mr. Nice Guy", which featured Filipino singer Iñigo Pascual.[13] She 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] and it debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart[15] On 1 May 2020, she sang on a remix of the song Learn to Meow by XiaoPanPan and XiaoFengFeng.[16] On 5 November 2020 she released the Hindi-English song "Thing You Want" featuring artists Ikka and Shalmali Kholgade, as part of the EP 'Collabs Vol.1'. The song premiered on Big Bang Music and has 1.7 million YouTube views as of 2024. She also released an English version on "Wengie Music"[17] This song earned her the "Best International Act in India" at the Indian The Clef Music Awards.[18] On 9 December 2022, Wengie released the single "This Christmas".

WRAYA

Under the moniker WRAYA, Wengie has released several musical works since 2021, typically in the C-pop and electropop genres.

Voice acting

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

Personal life

Wengie moved to Australia with her grandparents as a child. She is based in Sydney, Los Angeles, California and China.[19]

Discography

Extended plays

Title EP details
Collabs Vol. 1 (Int'l Ver.)
11:11
  • Released: 11 November 2021[21]
  • Label: Unicorn Pop, Create Music Group
  • Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles

As WRAYA
Title Moniker Date of release YouTube view count (as of December 2022)
Bitter WRAYA 24 June 2021 ~769,000
Trust Issues 7 August 2021 ~778,000
Tight Rope 2 September 2021 ~1 million
Ghost 30 September 2021 ~783,000
11:11 11 November 2021 ~1.4 million

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wengie.
  1. ^ a b "About Wengie". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b 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
  4. ^ Kroll, Justin (18 November 2016). "UTA Signs Beauty and Lifestyle YouTube Star Wengie". Variety. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. ^ "The winners of The [sic] 3rd Annual Australian Online Video Awards are..." Online Video Awards. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  6. ^ "LifeOfWengie YouTube Stats". Social Blade. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Top 250 YouTubers in Australia sorted by Subscribers". Social Blade. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  8. ^ McGinn, Christine (14 November 2017). "YouTube reveals the top Australian channels". Herald Sun. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Top 250 YouTubers How-to Channels". Social Blade. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  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. ^ "Wengie – Oh I do MV (Official Music Video)". Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ "Wengie 'CAKE' MV (Official Music Video)". Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018 – via YouTube.
  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. ^ Benjamin, Jeff (4 November 2019). "Wengie & (G)I-DLE's Minnie Make Their Debuts on World Digital Song Sales With 'Empire'". Billboard. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  16. ^ Wengie (Ft. XiaoFengFeng & XiaoPanPan) – Learn To Meow (EDM Version) [学猫叫], retrieved 3 September 2020
  17. ^ Wengie & Shalmali – Thing You Want ft. Ikka (Official Music video Eng Ver.), retrieved 5 April 2023
  18. ^ cosmic; MCAI. "Sanjeevani Bhelande wins the best composer award". mcai.in. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ "Announcement for Collabs Vol. 1 on Wengie's Instagram". Instagram. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  21. ^ "11:11". Spotify. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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