“Ozark” topped the streaming ratings for the second consecutive week, drawing the fourth-largest viewership on record, according to figures released by Nielsen Thursday.
Viewers spent 4.095 billion minutes watching the 37 episodes of the crime thriller on Netflix from Jan. 24-30, including the first seven episodes of its fourth and final season that were released Jan. 21. Viewership was up 41% from the 2.904 billion minutes watched the previous week.
“Tiger King” holds the weekly record with 5.3 billion minutes watched in March 2020 and is third on the all-time list with 4.4 billion minutes watched the following week. “Ozark” was watched for 5.2 billion minutes the week of March 30, 2020, second on the list.
Nielsen has been measuring U.S. streaming viewership since 2020.
“Encanto” was second for the second consecutive week following a first-place finish with 1.361 billion minutes watched, 9.9% less than the 1.511 billion minutes watched the previous week. The animated musical has finished second four times and first once in five full weeks it has been available on Disney+.
“The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” was among three programs in the latest top 10 not in the previous week’s. The eight-episode comedy mystery was sixth with 650 million minutes watched in its first three days of release on Netflix.
The other programs in the latest top 10 not in the previous week’s were Netflix’s South Korean coming of age zombie apocalypse series “All Of Us Are Dead,” ninth with 448 million minutes watched of its 12 episodes in their first three days of release, and the film comedy “Home Team,” inspired by New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton coaching his sixth-grade son’s team during his suspension for his involvement in the Bountygate scandal, 10th with 443 million minutes watched in its first three days of release.
Dropping out of the top 10 were the Netflix martial arts comedy-drama “Cobra Kai,” the Netflix cheerleading documentary “Cheer” and computer-animated monster film comedy “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” which streams on Amazon Prime Video.
The Disney+ “Star Wars” space Western “The Book of Boba Fett” was the other non-Netflix program in the top 10, rising six places to fourth with 744 million minutes watched of its five episodes, 28.3% more than the 580 million minutes watched the previous week when four episodes were available.
Nielsen also announces streaming viewership of Apple TV+ and Hulu programming.
The top 10 consisted of five original streaming series, two movies, two series that originally aired on CBS, and “CoComelon,” the 15-episode 3D animated series of videos of traditional nursery rhymes and original children’s songs that originated on YouTube.
The top 10 programs were “Ozark”; “Encanto”; “NCIS”; “The Book of Boba Fett”; “Criminal Minds”; “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”; “CoComelon”; “Archive 81,” “All Of Us Are Dead”; and “Home Team.”
The figures reflect only television-set viewing, including such television-connected devices as Roku and Apple TV. Mobile-only viewing is not included in Nielsen’s streaming measurement systems.