The platform has just revealed the number of hours of viewing in a Top 15 series that have had the greatest success this year.
It’s not really a surprise: Squid Game stay at the top of the leaderboard, with 1.65 billion hours of viewing. The Korean series is likely to keep its crown for a long time, despite fierce competition. It is closely followed by the fourth season of Stranger Things, which has 1.35 billion hours on the clock. Series Wednesday got off to an incredible start, claiming third place with 1.19 billion hours viewed in just a few weeks. Much further, the docu drama Dahmer, one of the surprises of the year, posted a total of 856 million hours viewed, a record for this type of programme. Finally, the Top 5 ends with an older series, season 5 of The Money Heist and its 792 million hours viewed.
Outsiders de luxe
The rest of this Top 15 shows between 700 and 500 million hours viewed “only”, even if the performance remains intrinsically spectacular. We find the two seasons of Chronicles from Bridgerton, elbow to elbow, proof of the equal interest of its spectators for its continuation. Logically, the most viewed series see their old episodes climb to the top. This is particularly the case for season 4 of The Money Heistseason 3 of Stranger Thingsseason 5 of Lucifer. The more recent series are also off to a good start, including All of Us Are Dead, The Witcher or Inventing Anna. Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why as well as the fourth season of the fabulous series Ozark close the march this Top 15.
Established trends
This classification is established on the first 28 days of broadcasting of the programs. There may therefore be other surprise guests later, such as the excellent adaptation of the manga Alice in Borderland, whose second season is off to a strong start. The presence of the Korean series All of Us Are Dead in the top also attests to the appetite of viewers for manga, anime or webtoon adaptations, confirming Netflix’s choice to support this type of production. Finally, we will retain the 20th place for the first French series, Lupin with Omar Sy, proof that our productions struggle to exist in a landscape dominated by English-speaking or Asian series.