The first week of June was jam-packed for streaming, with an influx of new titles that shook up Nielsen‘s viewership charts.
Three titles made it past the billion-minute mark and, shockingly, none of them were Bridgerton. The Netflix series had some stiff competition from June 3 to June 9, so it was relegated to ninth place with 806M minutes viewed.
That’s not to say it wasn’t an impressive showing for the series, considering that Season 3B had not launched yet. The top spot went to former Showtime series Your Honor, which started a modest ascent up the charts the week prior after it first three days on Netflix as well as on its permanent streaming home, Paramount+.
During this interval, it exploded with 1.5B minutes viewed — approximately triple the viewing it had the week before. While Bridgerton was out of the top three, Shonda Rhimes was not.
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