“Cobra Kai” took the championship belt on Nielsen’s streaming charts upon the release of its fifth season on September 9. During the week of September 5 to 11, Netflix’s continuation of the “Karate Kid” film franchise led the overall and original streaming program list with 1.7 billion viewing minutes.
In the original list, “Cobra Kai” was followed by the streaming counterpart “Devil in Ohio”, a Netflix limited thriller series starring Emily Deschanel, and Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”. Both the shows topped one billion viewing minutes with tally of around 1.4 and 1.2 each.
“Stranger Things,” which took fourth place on that list, saw a massive drop to nearly half of those numbers, with nearly 600 million viewing minutes. Disney+’s “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” garnered 493 million viewing minutes.
“House of the Dragon” surprisingly led the Acquired streaming list, reaching the only billion minute views mark. The ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel came fifth on the overall list, just after ‘Rings of Power’. Keep in mind that this number does not take into account HBO’s linear viewing numbers, nor does it fully reflect the total viewings on streaming for Episode 4 (which premiered on HBO Max on September 11 at 9 p.m. ET). captures. At the time of Nielsen’s rankings for the week, “Rings of Power” had released three episodes, the last of which debuted on 9 September.
Other notable titles include “Thor: Love and Thunder”, which came in second place on the overall list, and first in the movie category, which clocked 1.5 billion minutes as of September 8 on Disney+. “Game of Thrones” also held tight in viewership, ranking seventh overall and second in programming acquired.
