{"id":824867,"date":"2021-09-28T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=824867"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:44:24","slug":"for-the-first-time-netflix-reveals-its-top-ten-movies-and-shows-by-hours-watched-what-made-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-the-first-time-netflix-reveals-its-top-ten-movies-and-shows-by-hours-watched-what-made-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Netflix Reveals Its \u2018Top Ten\u2019 Movies And Shows By Hours Watched. What Made The List?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffor-the-first-time-netflix-reveals-its-top-ten-movies-and-shows-by-hours-watched-what-made-the-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=824867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230784466-e1632856721977.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>For the first time, on Monday, streaming service <\/span><i><span>Netflix<\/span><\/i><span> released its \u201cTop Ten\u201d rankings for its most popular content by number of total hours viewed during their first month of release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to be more transparent with the market, with the talent, with everybody,\u201d Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said Monday at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, where Netflix unveiled the new rankings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Netflix\u2019s top-performing series by total view hours in the first 28 days are ranked as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Bridgerton, Season 1 \u2014 625 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Money Heist, Part 4 \u2014 619 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Stranger Things 3 \u2014 582 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Witcher, Season 1 \u2014 541 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>13 Reasons Why, Season 2 \u2014 496 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>13 Reasons Why, Season 1 \u2014 476 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>You, Season 2 \u2014 457 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Stranger Things 2 \u2014 427 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Money Heist, Part 3 \u2014 426 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Ginny &amp; Georgia, Season 1 \u2014 381 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>Netflix\u2019s top-performing movies by total view hours in the first 28 days are ranked as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Bird Box<\/span><span> \u2014 282 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Extraction<\/span><span> \u2014 231 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Irishman<\/span><span> \u2014 215 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The<\/span> <span>Kissing Booth 2<\/span><span> \u2014 209 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>6 Underground<\/span><span> \u2014 205 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Spenser Confidential<\/span><span> \u2014 197 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Enola Holmes<\/span><span> \u2014 190 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Army of the Dead<\/span><span> \u2014 187 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Old Guard<\/span><span> \u2014 186 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Murder Mystery<\/span><span> \u2014 170 million hours<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>As CNET explained, \u201cFor the last couple of years,<\/span> <span>Netflix<\/span><span> has been more aggressive in publicizing its most popular titles, but typically its viewership stats were based on the number of accounts that viewed at least two minutes of a program \u2014 a metric sometimes criticized for not really showing how many people watched a title, just how many sampled it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When we consider this form of ranking, the top-performing shows and movies do change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Netflix\u2019s top-performing series by number of accounts that sampled at least two minutes in the first 28 days are ranked as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Bridgerton, Season 1 \u2014 82 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Lupin, Part 1 \u2014 76 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Witcher, Season 1 \u2014 67 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Sex\/Life, Season 1 \u2014 67 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Stranger Things 3 \u2014 67 million&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Money Heist, Part 4 \u2014 65 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Tiger King, Season 1 \u2014 64 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Queen\u2019s Gambit \u2014 62 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Sweet Tooth, Season 1 \u2014 60 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Emily in Paris, Season 1 \u2014 58 million<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>Most notably, while \u201cLupin\u201d was ranked in second place \u2014 sampled by 76 million accounts, it didn\u2019t even make the \u201cTop Ten\u201d in terms of hours viewed. \u201cThe Queen\u2019s Gambit\u201d was sampled by 62 million accounts and is also missing from the \u201cTop Ten\u201d ranking by hours viewed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Netflix\u2019s top-performing movies by number of accounts that sampled at least two minutes in the first 28 days are ranked as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Extraction \u2014 99 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Bird Box \u2014 89 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Spenser Confidential \u2014 85 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>6 Underground \u2014 83 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Murder Mystery \u2014 83 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The Old Guard \u2014 78 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Enola Holmes \u2014 77 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Project Power \u2014 75 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Army of the Dead \u2014 75 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Fatherhood \u2014 74 million<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>It should be noted that the \u201chours watched\u201d metric does have drawbacks, such as the fact that it favors series and movies with longer runtimes. As CNET noted, \u201cThree-and-a-half-hour long \u201cThe Irishman\u201d&nbsp;suddenly appears up high in Netflix\u2019s film top-10 list by hours watched, even though it falls far short of a top-10 ranking if you count how many accounts sampled it. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, on Monday, streaming service Netflix released its \u201cTop Ten\u201d rankings for its most popular content by number of total hours viewed during their first month of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}