Andor hit another series high in the lead up to its final episodes, generating 830M minutes viewed from May 5 to 11.
The Star Wars series came in at No. 5 on Nielsen‘s streaming list, continuing its growth trajectory since the Season 2 premiere. Interestingly, Nielsen says that, since the second season premiered on April 22, Andor has been the most-watched streaming title among Asian viewers by a significant margin with a total of 215M viewing minutes generated by that demographic alone.
No. 1 on the overall list during this interval went to Netflix’s The Four Seasons, which managed 1.16B minutes viewed. Netflix also secured the second place spot with You, marking the series’ third billion-minute week since the final season was released.
While most of the viewing for You went to new episodes, Nielsen also reports that Season 1 had also been generating some noteworthy viewership, indicating that at least some of the audience either wanted to catch up or revisit the story prior to Season 5.
The Rookie has been an impressive mainstay on the charts recently, coming in ninth place on the overall list with 674M minutes viewed. Nielsen posits that the series has benefitted from the new episodes on ABC, but those have only accounted for about 33% of all viewing so far this year. Per the company’s data, the remaining watch-time has been dispersed fairly evenly across the prior six seasons, suggesting The Rookie may have picked up some new fans.
On the streaming originals list, Forever debuted at No. 6 with 456M minutes viewed. Nielsen says that 66% of that came from Black viewers, and the adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel the 35-64 age range, and slightly over-indexed the TV population among Black viewers (16%) was the second youngest-skewing original this week (median age of 43) behind You (median age of 39).
Poker Face also returned during this interval, raking in 497M minutes viewed. This marks the show’s sixth appearance in the Top 10 Streaming Originals list since it debuted.
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