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On today’s second episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over the news that Stranger Things
4 had the biggest opening weekend premiere for Netflix!
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After a 3-year wait, Stranger Things is back and once again scoring impressive viewership
stats for Netflix.
Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 broke the record for biggest-ever premiere weekend of
an English-language series, which was previously held by Bridgerton Season 2.
According to Netflix’s newly released Top 10 rankings, Season 4 was viewed for 287 million
hours during the week of May 23-30, landing in the No. 1 position.
This comes after only three days of availability, as Part 1 of the season debuted with seven
episodes on Friday.
All four seasons of the show made it back into Netflix’s Top 5 titles for the week
of May 23-30.
Taking the third spot with 28 million hours viewed was Season 1 of “Stranger Things,”
which first crept back into the Top 10 last week as fans rewatched the series in preparation
for Season 4.
Season 3 followed right behind in fourth place with 24.2 million hours, followed by Season
2 in fifth place with 22.2 million hours.
In October 2019, Netflix said Stranger Things 3 was the show’s most-watched season to
date, with 64 million member households consuming it within the first month of its launch.
In its first four days, Netflix says more than 40 million people watched the third season
of Stranger Things.
It’s impossible to draw a true apples-to-apples comparison between the premiere performance
of Stranger Things 3 to “Stranger Things 4, given that the third season came during
the time period when Netflix was still counting a view of a title as having seen at least
70% of one episode.
The streamer later decided watching at least two minutes of a show or movie was a view.
Now, Netflix calculates viewership by total hours watched, which is how its weekly Top
10 list is presented.
The show also broke Twitter and was the most popular show of the week.
The first seven episodes of the season stirred up more than 980,000 engagements with fans
online.
The streaming service included a warning card disclaimer, as the season dropped days after
the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which left 21 people dead.
Other fans jumped online to discuss some of the season’s plot points and twists as they
await for volume 2 on July 1.
Some also marveled at the promotional weight thrown behind the series, including an entire
takeover of the Empire State Building.
The question now remains is: will Stranger Things 4 become Netflix’s biggest premiere
of all time?
It’s on pace to defeat Bridgerton season 2 for the biggest premiere in the first 28
days of an English language Netflix original series.
With that said, the worldwide record is still being held by Squid Game with 1.65 billion
hours viewed in the first 28 days of release.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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