Netflix series “Stanger Things 4” breaks Nielsen streaming record

Anoth­er record for Stranger Things isn’t too sur­pris­ing giv­en the oth­ers he pre­vi­ous­ly broke ear­ly in his fourth sea­son. But the Net­flix series has now passed a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone and smashed the Nielsen stream­ing record. Accord­ing to Nielsen, Stranger Things amassed 7.2 bil­lion min­utes of view­ing time in the week of May 30-June 5, the largest week­ly total for a stream­ing pro­gram since the week­ly rank­ings began near­ly two years ago, accord­ing to The Hol­ly­wood Reporter.

Addi­tion­al­ly, it has the high­est two-week total of any stream­ing pro­gram. Stranger Things Sea­son 4 gar­nered 5.14 bil­lion view­er min­utes for the week of May 23–29, for a two-week total of 12.34 bil­lion min­utes. No stream­ing show had clocked in at 6 bil­lion min­utes in a sin­gle week, let alone 7 bil­lion, as mea­sured by Nielsen.

Before Stranger Things, only Tiger King (twice) and Ozark had sur­passed 5 bil­lion min­utes dur­ing the spring of 2020 dur­ing the pan­dem­ic lock­downs. Nielsen includes all sea­sons of a show when cal­cu­lat­ing its stream­ing rank­ings, though it’s like­ly that the sev­en episodes of sea­son four, which debuted May 27, account­ed for the bulk of the 7.2 bil­lion min­utes, accord­ing to The Hol­ly­wood Reporter . More than 75 per­cent of the show’s 5.14 bil­lion min­utes for the week of May 23–29 were from sea­son four, accord­ing to the rat­ings service.