The numbers are in, and it’s official: Stranger Things is Netflix’s most popular original series to date. In fact, Netflix revealed that the third season of the show accumulated higher viewership numbers within the first four days of being released than any other Netflix original series. So, it would appear that plenty of fans spent most of their Fourth of July weekend binge-watching the newest installment of the show.
Stranger Things’ third season even surpassed its second one in terms of numbers, with the rating service’s SVOD content ratings confirming that the season had an average minute audience of 12.8 million viewers who tuned in to watch Eleven and the gang, and that’s within the first four days of the show’s release date alone. The second season, which came out back in 2017, only had an average minute audience of 10.6 million viewers within the same time span. That’s a 21-percent increase between seasons, an impressive feat for those working on the series.
These numbers vary slightly from Netflix’s original reports, which stated that 40.7 million viewers watched the third season during that four-day range. The difference in numbers stems from Netflix’s policy to consider an episode “viewed” if a user has watched at least 70 percent of it. Either way, Stranger Things broke some serious records last week, folks.
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The season three premiere on its own would be the No. 2 show on television that week, only falling second to the Women’s World Cup final. The first episode totaled 19.17 million viewers in the first four days, with a first-day average minute audience of 8.86 million people watching. And that’s just one episode! All of the episodes reached at least 10 million viewers by the weekend’s end, however, meaning that none of them trailed behind the premiere too much.
Individual episodes aside, a dedicated fanbase of 824,000 viewers binge-watched the whole third season on July 4 alone, compared to only 361,000 viewers who did the same for season 2. Sure, the second season premiere wasn’t on a holiday, so that’s something to factor in. Still, to double this number is still a pretty hefty accomplishment. Perhaps it was that two-year wait.
With the numbers in front of you, it’s hard to deny that Stranger Things has taken up the mantle when it comes to being Netflix’s most popular original series. And with the record-crushing viewership season 3 delivered, it seems plausible that a fourth one will soon be on the way…right?
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