The arrival of the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders on Netflix was highly anticipated. But, when it comes to its place in the Global Streamer Top 10, the show only finished in fifth place.
Netflix has been publishing a weekly list detailing its most popular TV shows (opens in a new tab) over a seven-day period since November 2021. The list ranks titles by weekly hours watched, that is, say, the total number of subscriber hours worldwide. saw each title between Monday and Sunday of the previous week, with Netflix sharing four separate charts; two for movies (English and non-English) and two for TV shows (English and non-English).
Netflix treats each season of a given series as separate entities, so sometimes you can watch two of the best seasons of Netflix shows in the same week. That's exactly what happened here, only it's not two seasons of the same show. : He's four years old and that show is, unsurprisingly, Stranger Things.
The first episode of the fourth season of the Duffer Brothers sci-fi monster extravaganza is, unsurprisingly, at number one, with 781,04 million hours viewed in 17 days. It is now Netflix's most-watched English-language TV series on Netflix's all-time list, which measures viewership for the first 28 days of a season on the platform.
The previous crown holder was the second season of Bridgerton, which clocked in 656 million hours over a similar period, while the regency drama's first season racked up 625 million. The only thing stopping the show from taking the top spot of any show is Squid Game, which had 1.650 billion hours of viewing in its first 28 days. Even on Stranger Things' current trajectory, it's unlikely to go any further.
The success of the show's fourth run also propelled Stranger Things' back catalog up the charts, with the show's second season taking second place on Netflix's weekly Top 10, its first season at third, and its third season at number three. fourth place. Then, and only then, comes the latest installment of Peaky Blinders.
These numbers are crazy
They certainly are, and in many cases, Peaky Blinders' 45,7 million hours watched would have put it second, if not first, in quieter weeks.
Similarly, new Netflix documentary series Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey made it to number six, but still managed over 31 million hours of viewing, while new teen vampire drama First Kill dropped to number seven with more than 30 million hours of viewing. Right.
Netflix execs must have wished every week was like this, but they'll also be thrilled at the prospect of more weird stuff, with the final two episodes of the show's fourth season arriving on July 1. If things continue like this, the creation of the Duffer Brothers may have the top five on its own.
If you want to know more about Stranger Things, including why it has to break one of Netflix's golden rules, click here.