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A highly anticipated weekend of streaming coverage of Memorial Day between Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) ended more memorable for Netflix (NFLX), as a supernatural series of references canceled out streaming ratings.
Unsurprisingly, the first batch of episodes of the fourth season of Stranger Things (NFLX) easily surpassed Nielsen’s rating for the week of May 23-29, airing 5.141B minutes – the third-highest total in history. of Nielsen streaming, and well above the totals accumulated by the Disney + (DIS) series Obi-Wan Kenobi, which streamed 1,026B minutes.
But Obi-Wan was still surpassed that week by another recent Netflix favorite, The Lincoln Lawyer (1.239B minutes) – and was still chased by another Netflix standby at No. 4, Ozark (804M minutes). Disney + (DIS) placed another hit on that week’s chart, at No. 8 with Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (481M minutes), and Amazon Prime Video’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) eight episodes of Night Sky settled for ninth with 440M minutes. .
Disney’s Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers was also the first film of that week – coming just ahead of Netflix’s Top Gun (NFLX) (432 million minutes), the 1986 film that attracted streamers as they prepared to arrive. in cinemas for the long haul. sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
Moving on to the last week of ratings (May 30-June 5), Stranger Things (NFLX) exploded further into the screens, setting a record 7.203B minutes. (If you do the math, it’s just under 13,695 human years spent watching Stranger Things, in the span of just one week.)
He was once again the easy leader in the overall streaming ranking, ahead of his fellow Netflix shows All American (1.253B minutes) and The Lincoln Lawyer (966M minutes), as well as a second week (adding a third episode) of Disney (DIS) Obi-Wan Kenobi, which streamed 958M minutes, and Amazon Prime Video’s (AMZN) The Boys, fifth with 949M minutes.
A notable addition landed right behind the Amazon show, as HBO Max (NASDAQ: WBD) joins the list for the first time. The prestigious streamer landed on the main chart at No. 6 with his Harry Potter-series film Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which aired 758M minutes.
Along with the top of the movie graphics, HBO Max (WBD) has reached the list of purchased series. It’s Netflix territory (NFLX), and the streaming pioneer has held the top eight slots here, led by All American, NCIS (692M minutes) and CoComelon (615M minutes). But HBO Max (WBD) landed at 9 with The Big Bang Theory (352M minutes), and at 10 with Friends (346M minutes).
And another interesting first came from Netflix (NFLX) on the film’s chart: it placed RRR at No. 9 (188M minutes), the first Hindi-language film to make Nielsen’s top 10 streaming.
The Nielsen streaming rating now incorporates viewing from six major streamers: Amazon Prime Video (AMZN), Apple TV + (AAPL), Disney + (DIS), HBO Max (WBD), Hulu (DIS) (CMCSA) and Netflix (NFLX).)
