‘Peaky Blinders’ Comes on Strong, but ‘Stranger Things’ Continues to Dominate Nielsen’s Streaming Charts
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Stranger Things” continues to rule in its third week of availability, as Nielsen’s latest Top 10 streaming rankings — for the week of June 13 through June 19 — showed it on top of the charts with nearly 3 billion minutes of viewing.As the binge subsides, that’s a dip from the previous week’s 4.2 billion minutes (and week one’s 7.2 billion minutes broke Nielsen’s record for the most-viewed title in a single week).
It’s sure to continue to come back down to earth — until measurement begins to include viewership of the show’s final two episodes, which dropped on July 1.
That’s likely to rocket the show back up — thanks to Volume 2’s combined four hours.As previously noted, included in Nielsen’s measurement of the week are the nine hours that make up Season 4 Volume 1, which debuted May 27 on Netflix, as well as all three previous seasons.
Meanwhile, rocketing to No. 2 on this week’s ranker is the return of BBC hit “Peaky Blinders,” which airs in the U.S. as a Netflix original.
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