Nielsen’s Top 10 Streaming list was a sea of acquired content in the week of July 22nd, with House of the Dragon And Cobra Kai as the only two streaming originals to make the breakthrough.
In first place was Ghostbusters: The Ice Cold Empirewhich landed on Netflix this week, making it the first streaming release since its theatrical release in March. The film has been watched for 1.4 billion minutes and, according to Nielsen, the title outperformed Hispanic and Latino audiences, who made up 24% of all viewers.
There may come a time when an animated blue heeler doesn’t dominate Disney+, but it’s not there yet. Bluish ranked second on the list during that period with 1.1 billion minutes of viewing time. The series has now made the Nielsen overall charts 76 times and this was its 17th consecutive week with over 1 billion minutes of viewing time.
Cobra Kai came in third place with just over 1 billion minutes of views and House of the Dragon came in fourth place. Nielsen expects that the game of Thrones The spin-off’s viewership will skyrocket as the finale approaches in the next edition of the company’s report.
Meanwhile, Netflix Cobra Kai will probably not maintain the high viewership for long, as viewers were only shown the first part of the last season in July. Season 6 is scheduled to be released in several parts spread over several months, with further episodes to follow in November and 2025.
While ratings this week were only slightly lower than Season 6A’s debut week, Season 6’s viewership dropped quite significantly on the Netflix charts during that time period. The staggered release strategy is likely hurting initial ratings, as some viewers will surely wait for more episodes before tuning in.
The rest of the overall list was filled with licensed content, including Family manwhich completed the billionaire minutes club and took fifth place.
Everything American regained a spot on the list after the final season landed on Netflix, and other spots went to Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Dexter And Criminal thoughts.
Elsewhere, For lack of evidence had a strong performance for Apple TV, coming in at No. 7 on the originals list with 387 million minutes watched after the final episode was released on the Friday of that time period. It’s likely that delayed viewing could keep the show on the list for another week.
Love Island narrowly missed the top 10, reaching another 724 million minutes watched in the week following the US spin-off’s Season 6 finale. Without any new episodes, that’s an impressive, consistent viewership figure that suggests people are probably still catching up on the season and the series could stay in the rankings a little longer.
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