Summer is for streaming — at least, according to the Nielsen charts.
Six titles exceeded the billion-minute mark from June 10 to 16, led by Bridgerton, which took the top spot back from Your Honor with 3.5B minutes viewed. Season 3B dropped during this interval, and Nielsen says those four episodes accounted for a whopping 2.5B minutes. The audience was also 77% female.
There was a fairly wide margin between first and second place, as Your Honor came in No. 2 with 1.8B minutes viewed. However, that’s still up 24% from the week before, indicating that the series continued to gain traction since landing on Netflix. The viewership total is combined with its original home, Paramount+, where it also remains, but there’s no denying that Netflix has played a large role in this audience growth.
The big streaming numbers continued with The Boys, as three new episodes dropped on Prime Video during this week to kick off Season 4. The series amassed 1.2B minutes viewed, though Nielsen didn’t say how much of that streaming came from the latest episodes. While Bridgerton skews female, The Boys has an audience that is 67% male.
For the 11th consecutive week, Bluey surpassed a billion minutes, coming in at No. 4. Rounding out the top five was Netflix’s Hit Man, coming in at 1.1B minutes viewed for its first full week on the platform.
Elsewhere, The Acolyte came in sixth place on the streaming originals list, thanks to a new episode that dropped on Disney+. The series tallied 370M minutes viewed. Mayor of Kingstown moved up to ninth place with 298M minutes viewed.
On the acquired list, House of the Dragon returned with the launch of Season 2. The premiere episode helped boost the series to No. 8 on the list with 741M minutes viewed. Nielsen says about 220M minutes came from the new episode, which is about 30%, indicating that much of the viewing that week was from those catching up on Season 1 in anticipation of the new episode.
Nielsen ends its measurement intervals on Sunday nights, just a few hours after new episodes of House of the Dragon, meaning that the true performance for a new episode will be reflected in the subsequent week’s charts. Expect the Game of Thrones spinoff to stick around.
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