Six titles — led by Netflix’s third season conclusion of “Bridgerton” — exceeded the billion-minute threshold for the week ended June 16 — a feat that has only occurred five other times in the weekly Nielsen top 10 streaming titles across U.S. household televisions.
The titles combined for 9.786 billion viewing minutes, which happens to be the largest ever combined total among titles exceeding 1 billion minutes in the same week (excluding the asterisked week of March 30, 2020 – April 5, 2020, at the height of pandemic lockdowns, which saw an “Ozark” and “Tiger King” binge-fest totaling more than 15 billion viewing minutes).
“Bridgerton” generated 3.467 billion viewing minutes from a primarily female (77%) audience. The four new episodes generated nearly 2.5 billion minutes (or over 70%) of this week’s 3.5 billion total.
Bryan Cranston’s “Your Honor” climbed to 1.891 billion viewing minutes (+24% from prev. interval) across 20 episodes on Netflix and Paramount+. The dark crime-thriller continues to draw broad demographic representation in both age and ethnicity: The 18-34, 35-49, 50-64 and 65+ demos each accounted for about 25% of the audience, and over 40% of viewing occurred in Hispanic (20%) and Black (22%) households.
Prime Video released three new episodes of its franchise original “The Boys,” which saw 1.194 billion viewing minutes to kick off its fourth season. “The Boys” audience was 67% male, while the “Bridgerton” viewers were 77% female.
Disney+ animated kids series “Bluey” notched its 11th consecutive week in the billion+ ranking with 1.155 billion viewing minutes this interval.
In its first full week on Netflix, Glen Powell dark comedy Hit Man added 8% viewing minutes from the prior week to 1.064 billion viewing minutes. Viewing was primarily driven by the 35+ crowd, and evenly split across males and females.
Netflix released 9 episodes of its original reality dating series “Perfect Match,” and this week viewing jumped to 802 million minutes to take No. 4 on the Originals list (up from 395 million and No. 9 last week).
Disney+ added a third episode of “The Acolyte” and generated 370 million viewing minutes, charting No. 6 on the Originals chart. The Star Wars series skews 66% male with the highest concentration of viewers coming from the 35-49 year old group. This audience makeup is fairly close to that of “The Boys,” although the Prime Video title has a slightly younger audience.
The Paramount+ original series “Mayor of Kingstown” added another episode and totaled 298 million viewing minutes, moving it up one slot to No. 9 on the Originals chart.
In what will likely be an interesting run in the Top 10 over the coming weeks, the new season of the HBO (network) series “House of the Dragon” launched on Max on Sunday evening of this interval and cracked No. 8 on the Acquired chart with 741 million viewing minutes.
The new episode alone drove 220 million viewing minutes — or about 30% — of the series’ total viewership this interval. The Max release schedule for new HOTD episodes (Sunday evenings) paired with Nielsen’s weekly measurement intervals (Monday through Sunday), which means there is a very narrow window for new episode viewing as it relates to the top 10 rankings. However, Nielsen said it expects this extension of the “Game of Thrones” franchise to gain momentum in the coming weeks.
