Despite its recent lack of favor with Oscar voters, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has managed to break yet another US streaming record according to Nielsen data. In the charts for Dec 26- January 1st, its first full streaming week, it continues to rack up exceptional amounts of views (and beg the question of whether it should have been left on theatrical release longer, too). Blake & Wang P.A entertainment lawyer, Brandon Blake, has the facts and figures.
Most-Streamed Movie in a Week
At a very hefty 2.9B minutes viewed, it not only holds the top spot for the week, but has surpassed Wonder Woman 1984 and Hocus Pocus 2 to hold two of the top ten spots for most-streamed movies in one week. That’s certainly a victory for Netflix!
Wednesday retains its third place spot at 1.66B, still lagging behind Jack Ryan, which took the number 2 spot for another week. Emily in Paris and yellowstone also racked up a billion or more minutes viewed, at 1.4B and 1B respectively.
Yellowstone Milestone
While the number 5 spot isn’t immediate grounds for celebration, it’s worth noting that this is the first billion minute break for Yellowstone. With no new episode on-air on Paramount’s Networks, there’s clear evidence some of that can be attributed to binge watching- you can see the seasons peak sequentially in viewing over the Christmas holidays, so viewers were busy with the back catalog. Solid evidence, if more was needed, that keeping older seasons accessible to viewers is a solid strategy.
To finish out the Nielsen Top 10 for this particular week, we see Noah Centineo’s The Recruit just miss the mark at 953M minutes, and Netflix continues to dominate. Slots 6-10 were all Netflix properties- think Cocomelon, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Matilda the Musical, and Treason
It’s nice to see Glass Onion get some public traction, and with more and more streaming entities crossing the 1B minutes viewed mark, doubtless we can expect some more records to fall in 2023.
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