‘Inventing Anna’ Vaults To Top Of Nielsen Streaming Chart; ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Cracks Top 10

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Netflix’s reality-based series Inventing Anna surged to No. 1 in Nielsen’s streaming rankings in its first full week of release.In the week of February 14 to 20, the series racked up almost 3.3 billion minutes of viewing for its nine episodes, up from 1.2 billion in the prior week.

The Shondaland-produced drama even outdid Netflix record-holder Squid Game in terms of Week 2 viewing in the U.S. Two-thirds of its overall audience was female and about one-third was in the 35-to-49-year-old demo.The series is based on real-life con artist Anna Delvey (real surname Sorokin), who managed to defraud a number of high-end investors and New York scenesters, with victims including banks, hotels and a private jet operator.

She was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to four to 12 years in prison. This week, she was ordered to be deported to her native Germany, but she is fighting to remain in the U.S.Nielsen measures viewing via a TV screen for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu and Apple TV+, releasing numbers about about a month’s interval.

Mobile and non-U.S. viewing is not counted.Amazon Prime Video grabbed two spots on the chart, with the first two episodes of Season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs.