• By Nick Patel
  • 13 Nov, 2026
  • Charts

Vertical 52 Recap, Nov 12: Love Is A Dangerous Game Makes It Three Weeks at #1

By Nirav Patel, Founder, Vertical Charts

Love Is A Dangerous Game is now a three-week #1. In the November 12 update of the Vertical 52, the DramaBox thriller held the top spot again, DramaBox kept nine of the top 10 seats, and the biggest story underneath was a lesson in how quickly a show can fall once an app stops featuring it. Five titles are new, two came back, and seven dropped off. Here’s what moved.

The top 10: one swap, one surge

Love Is A Dangerous Game rose from a VertiScore of 86.0 to 86.5 and passed about 116.3 million views, up from roughly 106.8 million a week ago. It scored a perfect 100 on velocity, our measure of how fast a show is adding viewers, so it isn’t coasting on old numbers. VertiScore is our 0 to 100 engagement score, and the full recipe is on the methodology page.

The only change in the top four was a swap. Five Years of Hate, a Lifetime of Regret climbed from #4 to #2 (83.1 to 84.5) and grew from about 31.8 million to 42.7 million views. It’s the third straight week this October 19 release has moved up. Deny Me, Dragon King slid from #2 to #4, though at 83.1 it’s barely a point and a half off the #2 pace. Its sibling launch, Falling for the Prince at Dark Arts Academy, held #3 at 84.0 with about 41.2 million views.

  1. Love Is A Dangerous Game (DramaBox), VertiScore 86.5, held #1
  2. Five Years of Hate, a Lifetime of Regret (DramaBox), 84.5, up from #4
  3. Falling for the Prince at Dark Arts Academy (DramaBox), 84.0, held #3
  4. Deny Me, Dragon King (DramaBox), 83.1, down from #2
  5. Think Again! I’m the Hidden Boss Mom (DramaBox), 82.1, held #5
  6. My X-Ray Vision Sees Right Through You (ReelShort), 80.8, held #6
  7. Chosen by the Dragon Baby: His Human Mate (DramaBox), 78.6, up from #8
  8. I Wish It Were You (DramaBox), 78.2, up from #10
  9. Tempest: The Last Mecha (DramaBox), 78.2, held #9
  10. My Billionaire Patient Is My Baby Daddy (DramaBox), 76.4, up from #11

Last week we asked whether My X-Ray Vision Sees Right Through You could hold a top-10 seat after its 15-place jump. It did. It stayed at #6, nudged its score from 80.0 to 80.8, and is now ReelShort’s only title in the top 10. DramaBox has the other nine, up from eight, and 12 of the top 20.

The Warlord Queen problem

The week’s biggest fall belongs to last week’s biggest debut. My Sister Is the Warlord Queen dropped 18 places, from #7 to #25, and its VertiScore fell from 77.9 to 69.3. Its audience didn’t go anywhere. It still has the most views of any show on the chart, about 641 million, and it maxed out our velocity and reach measures again this week. What changed is placement, which tracks how prominently each app features a show on its home banners and curated rails. That component went to zero this week.

The same thing happened to I Accidentally Sexted My Enemy (#15 to #31) and I Had a Baby without You (#31 to #44). All three are big ReelShort catalog titles, all three still scored 100 on reach, and all three lost their featured slots at the same time. That fits the pattern we described in our show-age analysis: ReelShort rotates older hits through its storefront for a week or two, then moves on. Placement is only one of four inputs, so a catalog giant doesn’t fall off the chart when the banner goes away, but it can’t hold a top-10 seat on reach alone.

The climbers: football and a forbidden brother

Going the other way, The Lost Quarterback Returns was the week’s biggest climber, jumping 31 places from #44 to #13 as its score rose from 60.0 to 74.6. It has about 251 million plays, and a return to the featured rails (its placement score rose to 53.3) put it back in front of new viewers. It’s the mirror image of the Warlord Queen story. My Secret Lover Is His Brother also rose 13 places, from #27 to #14, on about 214 million plays.

The partnership titles kept inching up. Worth the Chase, ReelShort’s second Wattpad adaptation, climbed two spots to #11 (74.3 to 76.0) and passed about 34.9 million plays, up from roughly 28.5 million. Agent of Shadows, the WWE collaboration, held #12 and rose to 75.5.

Five new entries, two comebacks

After nine ReelShort newcomers last week, this week’s arrivals are split three to two:

Two shows came back. How to Dump a Hockey Star, which debuted at #11 two weeks ago and then vanished, re-entered at #23. Move Aside! I’m the Final Boss returned at #40. With Before We Break also arriving, hockey now has three titles on the chart, counting DramaBox’s Revenge Puck at #30. We covered the genre’s rise in our sports-romance guide.

The seven exits were Their Brother Lost in Space (last week’s #24), The Hidden Princess at the All-Alpha Academy, School for Bad Boys: S*x Lessons, The Cooking Queen: A Recipe for Divorce, The School for Bad Boys, You’ve Been Replaced, First Love, and He Loved Playing Daddy. I Made Him One for Life.

The platform picture

The full chart is split evenly again, 26 shows each. DramaBox’s 26 average a VertiScore of 71.0 against 65.3 for ReelShort’s. ReelShort’s 26 have about 4.87 billion combined plays, more than double DramaBox’s 2.24 billion. That gap mirrors the wider market. DataEye’s October overseas rankings had ReelShort first in downloads with more than 24 million, and DramaBox first in revenue. ReelShort wins on reach, while DramaBox’s newer shows are adding viewers faster and holding them better.

What to watch on November 19

Can Love Is A Dangerous Game make it four weeks, or does Five Years of Hate close the two-point gap? Does The Lost Quarterback Returns hold its spot once its featured slot rotates out, or does it go the way of the Warlord Queen? And can the AI-made Siren King climb from #45 once it has a full week of plays behind it?

Every score and move is on the Vertical 52. We refresh it every Thursday.

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