Netflix Revealed its Top10 Series and Movies for the First Time

Netflix Top10 movies and TV-Series were revealed by Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer, at the Vox Media’s Code Conference at the Beverly Hilton. Two slides were shared at the conference, one showed the most popular Netflix shows based on its proprietary metric of the number of accounts that selected a given title in the first 28 days of release (and streamed for at least 2 minutes). Whereas, the second showed the total time spent viewing by hours within the initial 28-day window.

List of Netflix Top10 movies and TV-Series

Netflix top-10 series 

• By total view hours in the first 28 days:

1. Bridgerton, season 1 – 625 million hours
2. Money Heist, part 4 – 619 million hours
3. Stranger Things 3 – 582 million hours
4. The Witcher, season 1 – 541 million hours
5. 13 Reasons Why, season 2 – 496 million hours
6. 13 Reasons Why, season 1 – 476 million hours
7. You, season 2 – 457 million hours
8. Stranger Things 2 – 427 million hours
9. Money Heist, part 3 – 426 million hours
10. Ginny & Georgia, season 1 – 381 million hours

• By several accounts that have watched at least 2 minutes in its first 28 days of release:

1. Bridgerton, season 1 – 82 million
2. Lupin, part 1 – 76 million
3. The Witcher, season 1 – 67 million
4. Sex/Life, season 1 – 67 million
5. Stranger Things 3 – 67 million (the only previously unreleased figure)
6. Money Heist, part 4 – 65 million
7. Tiger King, season 1 – 64 million
8. The Queen’s Gambit – 62 million
9. Sweet Tooth, season 1 – 60 million
10. Emily in Paris, season 1 – 58 million

Netflix Top10 Movies 

• By total view hours in the first 28 days:

1. Bird Box – 282 million hours
2. Extraction – 231 million hours
3. The Irishman – 215 million hours
4. The Kissing Booth 2 – 209 million hours
5. 6 Underground – 205 million hours
6. Spenser Confidential – 197 million hours
7. Enola Holmes – 190 million hours
8. Army of the Dead – 187 million hours
9. The Old Guard – 186 million hours
10. Murder Mystery – 170 million hours

• By several accounts that have watched at least 2 minutes in its first 28 days of release:

1. Extraction – 99 million
2. Bird Box – 89 million
3. Spenser Confidential – 85 million
4. 6 Underground – 83 million
5. Murder Mystery – 83 million
6. The Old Guard – 78 million
7. Enola Holmes – 77 million
8. Project Power – 75 million
9. Army of the Dead – 75 million
10. Fatherhood – 74 million

A change in strategy

For years, Netflix remains tight-lipped about viewership. The House of Cards creator has put Netflix’s original content efforts on the map, the company had never gone public with its viewership metrics  But within the last two years, Netflix has evolved a lot they were not only talking about the popularity of its shows and movies but they recently dipped their toes in the games industry as well. Netflix also added a top-trending ranking to its service, so people can see what the most popular titles streaming on Netflix in their country are on any given day.

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