The May 27 debut of the first seven episodes of Season 4 of “Stranger Things” marked Netflix’s biggest release weekend, with 287 million hours of viewing in just three days. Now, after the first full week of availability of the season, its success continued and broke another bigger record: it is the third most popular English-language television season on Netflix. Netflix calculates this list based on the audience during the first 28 days of a title’s availability, which means that season 4 of “Stranger Things” still has 18 days to go even higher in the chart.
According to the recently released weekly Top 10 ranking of the streamer, “Stranger Things” Season 4, Volume 1 has also broken the record for the most-watched program in a week among Netflix’s English-language TV series, with 335 million hours of viewing from May 30 to June. 5.
This title was in the hands of the second season of “Bridgerton,” which garnered 251.74 million viewing hours during the week of March 28-April 3, its first full week on the streaming service. The South Korean drama “Squid Game” still holds the most-watched overall record on Netflix for a seven-day period, in both English and other titles, with 571.76 million hours viewed in one week.
With these impressive statistics, “Stranger Things 4” easily maintained its No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 List for English-language TV series during the May 30-June 5 viewing window. (Available episodes last approximately nine hours in total.)
Season 1 of the Duffer Brothers science fiction series reappeared in the Top 10 the week before the season 4 premiere, and last week, the second and third seasons also hit the charts. This trend continued this week: Season 1 led the group, ranking second after being watched for 75.1 hours between May 30 and June 6. Season 2 continued at No. 3 with 58.3 million hours viewed, with Season 3 as No. 3.4 with 47.4 million hours. In total, “Stranger Things” was viewed for a total of 515.8 million hours during this viewing period.
The continued relevance of the series is undeniable. Nielsen reported Monday that the combined four-season viewer turned “Stranger Things” into the third series to garner more than 5 billion viewing minutes in a week, and that statistic doesn’t take into account viewing on mobile devices or in other countries. And culturally, the show continued to generate headlines, and fans analyzed everything from the characters ‘sexual orientations to their birthdays and raised the anthems of the’ 80s to a new popularity.
The last two episodes of Season 4 of “Stranger Things” will premiere on July 1st.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” was ranked No. 5 on the list of the top 10 English-language television series from May 30 to June 5 with 42.5 million viewing hours, and Season 4 of “All American” it ranked sixth with 30.6 million hours. . Elsewhere in the chart were “Ozark” Season 4 (16.8 million), “The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib” (10.5 million hours), “Bridgerton” Season 2 (10 million hours) and “The Blacklist” Season 8 (8.7). million hours).
Check out the top 10 Netflix playlists for the week of May 30-June 5 below, starting with English-language series and followed by non-English-language TV shows, English-language movies, and then movies that they are not in English.
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