Netflix Top 10: ‘Stranger Things 4′ Breaks All-Time Record With 287 Million Hours Viewed

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Selome Hailu After a three-year wait, “Stranger Things” is back and once again scoring impressive viewership stats for Netflix.

Season 4 volume 1 broke the record for biggest-ever premiere weekend of an English-language series, which was previously held by Season 2 of “Bridgerton.”According to Netflix’s newly released Top 10 rankings, Season 4 of the Duffer Brothers’ hit sci-fi series was viewed for 287 million hours during the week of May 23-30, landing in the No.

1 position. This comes after only three days of availability, as Part 1 of the season debuted with seven episodes on Friday.All four seasons of “Stranger Things” made it back into Netflix’s Top 5 titles for the week of May 23-30.

Season 1 of “Stranger Things,” which first crept back into the Top 10 last week as fans rewatched the series in preparation for Season 4, was viewed for 38 million hours from May 23-30, and Season 3 re-debuted as well with 22.2 million hours.For comparison, “Bridgerton” Season 2 was viewed for 193 million hours over its debut weekend, which occurred during the week of March 21-27.