Hot on the heels of the premiere of the second volume of the fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” the show has set a new streaming record.
“Stranger Things” reportedly amassed 7.2 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of May 30th-June 5th according to Nielsen. That’s the highest weekly total for any streaming title since the advent of weekly rankings almost two years ago.
Prior to late May, no streaming show measured by Nielsen had ever reached 6 billion minutes in a single week – only “Tiger King” and “Ozark” in the early days of the pandemic lockdown ever crossed the 5 billion minute mark.
“Stranger Things” also has the biggest two-week tally for any streaming show – the prior week (May 23-29) it amassed 5.14 billion minutes of viewing for a two-week total of 12.34 billion minutes.
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only, not computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries.
“Stranger Things” has become the most-watched English language series on Netflix, the first volume of the fourth season saw 930 million hours worldwide watched over its first 28 days.
That popularity was seen when the second volume launched earlier today and promptly overloaded Netflix’s servers in some places as users experienced ‘Network Error’ pages. Reports of problems with Netflix spiked to nearly 13,000 when the supersized double episodes went live.
The streaming giant reportedly resolved the technical issues within a half hour and the new episodes – clocking in at 85 minutes and 150 minutes respectively – are now available.
Source: TV Line
