Netflix’s first week of streaming its original series Resident Evil, based on the video game franchise, ranked fourth overall in the Nielsen streaming rankings, the measurement service said Thursday in reporting data for the week of March 11-17. July with.
The series, which aired all eight episodes of Season 1 on July 14, amassed 858 minutes of viewing, placing it at number 4 on the top 10 streaming chart for the week. No. 1 remains Stranger Things (2.94 billion minutes), the only show or film to surpass the 1 billion minute mark during the frame, the youngest by Nielsen.
Nielsen reports US streaming numbers for Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and Apple TV+ after a month delay.
At #2 this week was the second week of Netflix animated film The Sea Beast (920 million minutes), a whopping 113% increase over its debut weekend, followed by Prime Video’s The Terminal List (887 million minutes) at #3 and The Boys (828 million minutes) in 5th place.
Another notable number during the frame was Hulu’s Emmy-nominated film Only Murders in the Building (369 million minutes), up 44% from last week. Disney+, on the other hand, recorded 332 million minutes of viewing for its film Zombies 3 in its first weekend.
The #1 spot for Stranger Things marked the third straight week at #1 for the Netflix sci-fi smash. It retook the top spot for the week of June 27 through July 3 when it retired its Season 4 Volume 2 episodes, helping the series grow more than 150% week-over-week to 5.9 billion Viewing minutes in this frame grew. It was the second-highest week since Stranger Things season 4 premiered the week of May 30, according to Nielsen, with 7.2 billion minutes watched.
The final season of the Duffer Brothers’ series ended less than 300 hours behind Squid Game as Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, amassing 1.352 billion hours in its first 28 days of release.
