No surprise the release of the last two episodes of stranger things fourth and penultimate season on Netflix has proven to be a huge success. On Tuesday, July 5th, the streamer quantified that success in the form of Netflix’s latest global top 10 list, which revealed the world’s biggest shows and movies on the platform for the 7-day period ended July 3rd.
Here’s the big number that catches your eye on this week’s list: 301.2 million. That’s the amazing number of hours Netflix subscribers around the world spend bingeing stranger things 4which is also the most popular English language television show ever on Netflix.
The latter is based on viewership over the first 28 days of the season’s availability on the streamer. stranger things 4has garnered nearly 1.2 billion hours of viewership in its first 28 days of availability on Netflix.
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stranger things 4 — 301.2 million hours viewed this week
Those numbers are all the more impressive, especially when you consider that Season 4 is actually the lowest-rated of the four on Rotten Tomatoes. Mind you, none of them were exactly skewered on the review summary site. However, overall critics’ scores fall in order from seasons 1 through 4 as follows: 97 percent, 94 percent, 89 percent, and then back to 89 percent (at the time of writing this article).
But what’s even more striking about this week’s Netflix top 10 list? as we said stranger things 4 was #1, and it wasn’t even close. Show #2 this week? That would The Umbrella Academy: Season 3. However, with 87.9 million hours watched, it didn’t even attract half the viewership stranger things 4.
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If I had to guess, I would guess stranger things 4 will remain #1 on Netflix worldwide for at least… two more weeks, shall we say. Probably more.
For more clues as to how big this show is for the streamer, check out the previous three seasons of this week stranger things also occupy #3, #5, and #6 on the latest Netflix Top 10 list.
Unfortunately, to the dismay of fans who love the show so much, it could have been as much as two years ago stranger things 5 debuts on Netflix. That’s partly due to the fact that the show’s writers won’t start writing the next season until August.
For now, here’s Netflix’s latest snapshot of the world’s biggest shows currently on the streamer. The Netflix top 10 (English language) series from June 27th to July 3rd are listed below.
- stranger things 4 — 301.2 million hours watched
- The Umbrella Academy: Season 3 — 87.9 million hours watched
- First season of stranger things — 34.4 million hours watched
- The Umbrella Academy: Season 1 — 32.8 million hours watched
- Third season of stranger things — 30.2 million hours watched
- Second season of stranger things — 30.2 million hours watched
- Man vs Bee: Season 1 — 25.4 million hours watched
- The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 — 20.3 million hours watched
- Peaky Blinders: Season 6 — 18.4 million hours watched
- snowflake mountain: 15 million hours viewed
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