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Nielsen‘s Top 10 streaming list was a sea of acquired content the week of July 22, with House of the Dragon and Cobra Kai as the only two streaming originals to break through.
In first place was Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which landed on Netflix that week, marking its first appearance on streaming since its theatrical release in March. The film racked up 1.4B minutes viewed, and Nielsen says that the title over-indexed among Hispanic and Latin audiences, which accounted for 24% of all viewership.
There may come a time when an animated Blue Heeler isn’t dominating Disney+, but it hasn’t arrived yet. Bluey took second place on the list during this interval with 1.1B viewing minutes. The series has now made it on Nielsen’s overall chart 76 times, and this was its 17th consecutive week tracking above 1B minutes.
Cobra Kai came in third with just over 1B minutes viewed, and House of the Dragon came in a close fourth place. Nielsen anticipates that the Game of Thrones spinoff will see a surge in viewing as the finale interval approaches in the next edition of the company’s report.
Meanwhile, Netflix’s Cobra Kai is not likely to sustain high viewership for long, as only the first part of the latest season was released to audiences in July. Season 6 is set to release in several parts over the several months, with more episodes coming in November and in 2025.
While viewing this week was down just slightly from Season 6A’s debut week, the audience for Season 6 dropped fairly significantly during this same interval on the Netflix charts. The staggered release strategy is likely hurting its initial debut viewership, as some viewers will surely be waiting for more episodes before tuning in.
The rest of the overall list was filled with licensed content, including Family Guy, which rounded out the billion-minute club and came in fifth.
All American reclaimed a spot on the list after the latest season landed on Netflix, and other spots went to Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Dexter and Criminal Minds.
Elsewhere, Presumed Innocent had a strong showing for Apple TV, making it onto the originals list at No. 7 with 387M minutes viewed following the release of its finale episode on the Friday of this interval. It’s likely that delayed viewing could keep it on the list for another week.
Love Island barely missed the overall Top 10 rankings, managing another 724M minutes viewed in the week following the Season 6 finale of the U.S. spinoff. With no new episodes, that’s an impressive sustained audience that indicates people were likely still catching up on the season and could keep the series around in the rankings for a bit longer.
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