Netflix landed atop the Nielsen streaming charts within the last full week of Might with the debut of its newest darkish comedy Sirens.
The collection premiered on Might 22, racking up 1.4B minutes streamed in simply the primary few days of launch. Per Nielsen, it was the one title to surpass a billion minutes seen from Might 19 to 25. Fascinating, Nielsen additionally says Sirens attracted a largely Millennial and Gen X viewers, with adults 35-64 accounting for 57% of its watch time.
Second place went to NCIS, which nabbed the No. 1 spot amongst acquired titles for the primary time in a number of years, amassing 824M minutes seen. Whereas this can be the very best it has climbed in fairly a while, make no mistake: NCIS is a stalwart on the Nielsen High 10, having made 265 complete appearances. In reality, it’s really the all-time high acquired program by variety of appearances on the listing, trailed by Gray’s Anatomy.
Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives picked up steam as Season 2 ventured into its second week post-premiere. The collection got here in at No. 4 with 810M minutes seen, with the brand new season accounting for about 86% of viewing.
This interval additionally simply barely captured the Season 2 finale of HBO’s The Final of Us. The collection picked up one other 707M minutes seen this week, which incorporates the same-day viewing on Max for the Might 25 finale. Nevertheless, it’s possible the collection will make a minimum of another look on the High 10 earlier than it trails off as audiences wait for one more season.
Nielsen considers The Final of Us an acquired title, because it additionally airs on HBO and due to this fact Nielsen’s streaming measurement doesn’t absolutely seize the viewing for every episode. On streaming alone, Nielsen says TLOU generated 3.6B viewing minutes over the course of Season 2.
One other acquired title that carried out fairly properly throughout this week was The CW’s All American, because of Season 7’s arrival on Netflix. The collection shot to No. 8 amongst acquired titles that week with 559M minutes seen. Nielsen says 55% of its complete watch time this week got here from adults 18-49. Black viewers had been additionally main contributors, accounting for 30% of viewing.
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