“Suits” takes home a new title this week as the streaming series with the most-ever No. 1 appearances on Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 chart. During the Sept. 4-10 viewing window, the drama scored another first place ranking, marking its 12th week to do so. This time, with nearly 2.36 billion minutes viewed — a slight drop from the previous week, but still a very impressive figure that managed to help the show dethrone “Ozark” for the crown of most No. 1’s.
For added context, other power players “You” and “Stranger Things” are both tied for third place on the list of most No. 1 appearances with eight weeks.
On the overall streaming chart, “Virgin River” returned to the Top 10 list at No. 2 as Netflix released the first five episodes of Season 5. After debuting on the streamer on Sept. 7, the series earned 1.9 billion minutes viewed within the first four days of availability. The series also landed at No. 1 on the originals chart. The second half of “Virgin River” Season 5, is expected to premiere on Nov. 30.
After cracking the chart last week, “One Piece” gained nearly 1.4 billion minutes viewed, pushing it to third place on the overall streaming chart and No. 2 on the original titles list. The two things to note about each of the two titles is Nielsen claims viewers aged 50 and up account for over 60% of the “Virgin River” audience, while “One Piece” maintains one of the most diverse audiences in the race/ethnicity category.
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” transitioned over to Disney’s streaming service this week, picking up 1.4 billion minutes viewed in its first five days of availability and landing in fourth place. According to Nielsen, the film had the highest level of “co-viewing” among this week’s titles with almost 70% of viewers watching with someone else. By contrast, “Virgin River” had the lowest co-viewing percentage this week with 34%.
With multiplatform viewing on Hulu, Netflix, and Paramount+, “S.W.A.T.” also managed to reach over 1 billion minutes viewed. Following the release of Season 7 on Netflix, the series recorded 1.04 billion viewing minutes and ranked No. 5 among the competition.
Elsewhere on the chart is “Bluey” (973 million), “Grey’s Anatomy” (864 million), “NCIS” (637 million), “Cocomelon” (587 million) and “The Big Bang Theory” (561 million).
See Nielsen’s list of overall streaming rankings for Sept. 4-10 first, followed by original streaming titles, acquired titles and then films.
