Carrie tops streaming chart in its debut week as Prime Video renews the series
The Stephen King adaptation drew 1.26 billion minutes of U.S. TV viewing in Nielsen’s Oct. 5–11 chart, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Prime Video’s Carrie reached No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for Oct. 5–11, its debut week after arriving on Oct. 7. The Stephen King adaptation drew 1.26 billion viewing minutes, The Hollywood Reporter reported, putting it ahead of every other streaming title measured that week.
Prime Video announced a second season on Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The company did not say the chart result drove its renewal decision.
How Carrie ranked against other shows
The eight-episode series is a present-day update of King’s novel, with Mike Flanagan as showrunner. Its first-place finish came from a ratings week that began two days before the series premiered, so the reported total reflects its opening days within the Oct. 5–11 period.
Netflix’s Below, a thriller starring Josh Hartnett, placed second overall with 1.19 billion viewing minutes, The Hollywood Reporter reported. East of Eden followed in third with 1.16 billion minutes, a 49 percent increase from the previous week. Those figures put the three leading titles within 100 million viewing minutes of one another.
The previous week’s leader, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, fell 44 percent to 600 million minutes. It dropped out of the overall top 10 while remaining sixth among original series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
What Nielsen’s streaming chart measures
Nielsen’s data center identifies Streaming Content Ratings and its National TV Panel as the basis for the U.S. chart covering Oct. 5–11. The Hollywood Reporter said the ratings count viewing on TV sets in the United States; viewing on computers and mobile devices is outside that measure. Carrie’s reported 1.26 billion minutes therefore describes TV viewing in that market, rather than all viewing worldwide or across every device.
Prime Video’s recent run at No. 1
Carrie’s debut extended a strong run for Prime Video on the same chart. The service had the top overall title six times in the past eight weeks, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Reacher accounted for four first-place weeks in August and September, before its spinoff Neagley led the Sept. 14–20 chart.
Other titles also gained from reaching Netflix viewers during the Oct. 5–11 week. The Hollywood Reporter said Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown recorded 740 million minutes and Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians recorded 365 million after their libraries arrived on Netflix. Ben Affleck’s Animals, which premiered there on Oct. 9, led the movie chart with 719 million minutes.
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Sources and context
- Streaming Ratings: ‘Carrie’ Has a Bloody Good Opening WeekThe Hollywood Reporter
- Nielsen Data CenterNielsen
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