‘Virgin River’ Dethrones ‘Suits’ in Streaming Rankings
Suits‘ three-month stranglehold on the top of the Nielsen streaming charts has come to an end.
Netflix’s Virgin River moved ahead of Suits and claimed the No. 1 overall spot for the week of Sept. 11-17. The drama, whose fifth season premiered Sept. 7, improved by 7 percent from the previous week with 2.05 billion minutes of viewing. Suits, meanwhile, slipped by 19.5 percent to a still very strong 1.9 billion minutes and was second overall. The former USA Network series had spent the previous 12 weeks at No. 1.
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The Morning Show became the third Apple TV+ series (after Ted Lasso and Hijack) to make the streaming rankings. It finished eighth among original series for the week of its season three premiere with 350 million minutes of viewing. Netflix’s German thriller Dear Child moved up to second among originals with 720 million minutes.
On the movie charts, Elemental scored a big streaming debut on Disney+ with 1.73 billion minutes of viewing. That’s the equivalent of almost 17.1 million full showings — or what’s now classified as a streaming “view” — of the Pixar film. The Nielsen figure represents about 65 percent of the 26.4 million worldwide views Disney+ reported for the film’s first five days on the platform. Prime Video’s documentary Kelce drew 179 million minutes of viewing; the streamer had earlier said it was the most watched documentary feature ever on the platform in the United States.
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Sept. 11-17 are below.
Overall
1. Virgin River (Netflix), 2.05 billion minutes viewed
2. Suits (Netflix/Peacock), 1.9 billion
3. Elemental (Disney+), 1.73 billion
4. Bluey (Disney+), 835 million
5. Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix), 834 million
6. SWAT (Hulu/Netflix/Paramount+), 798 million
7. Dear Child (Netflix), 720 million
8. Cocomelon (Netflix), 666 million
9. One Piece (Netflix), 663 million
10. NCIS (Netflix/Paramount+), 603 million
Original Series
1. Virgin River, 2.05 billion minutes
2. Dear Child, 720 million
3. One Piece, 663 million
4. Ahsoka (Disney+), 577 million
5. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), 456 million
6. The Wheel of Time (Prime Video), 423 million
7. Glow Up (Netflix), 399 million
8. The Morning Show (Apple TV+), 350 million
9. Futurama (Hulu), 349 million
10. Spy Ops (Netflix), 288 million
Acquired Series
1. Suits, 1.9 billion minutes
2. Bluey, 835 million
3. Grey’s Anatomy, 834 million
4. SWAT, 798 million
5. Cocomelon, 666 million
6. NCIS, 603 million
7. Gilmore Girls (Netflix), 549 million
8. The Big Bang Theory (Max), 460 million
9. Heartland (Hulu/Netflix/Peacock), 428 million
10. Friends (Max), 400 million
Movies
1. Elemental, 1.73 billion minutes
2. The Little Mermaid (Disney+), 588 million
3. Fast X (Peacock), 272 million
4. Woody Woodpecker (Netflix), 260 million
5. Love at First Sight (Netflix), 233 million
6. Moana (Disney+), 219 million
7. A Million Miles Away (Prime Video), 216 million
8. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Peacock), 196 million
9. Kelce (Prime Video), 179 million
10. The Wolf of Wall Street (Netflix/Paramount+), 160 million
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