The Tim Burton series «Wednesday», which tells about the adventures of the daughter of the Addams Family, met the expectations of viewers and became unbelievably popular. At the end of the first week, it broke Netflix's record for Hours Watched among English-language series. Thanks to the social media hype, the show's performance in the second week was even higher. In a new Streams Charts article, we compare the statistics on «Wednesday» and other popular shows on the service to similar metrics of esports and streaming.
The first season of «Wednesday» was released on Netflix on November 23 and amassed more than 341.2 million Hours Watched by the end of the first week. That is nearly 2% higher than the service's previous record, which was set by the fourth season of «Stranger Things» in June of this year. At the same time, the second week's total was 411.3 million Hours Watched.
«Wednesday» vs Streaming (image 1) / Esports (image 2)
In the two weeks since its release, the «Wednesday» series totaled 752.5 million Hours Watched. That's about the same as 20 years of streaming by Amouranth (the Top 1 female streamer on Twitch), two years of Twitch broadcasts by Team G FUEL, or 3.5 months of streaming of the entire Spanish-language segment. In addition, Tim Burton's masterpiece amassed 11 times more HW in two weeks than IEM Rio Major 2022, and about as many as the last six Worlds in LoL accumulated in total.
Most popular Netflix TV Series vs. Esports (image 1) / Streaming (image 2)
As «Wednesday» approaches its first month of release and continues to rack up views, the title of the most popular Netflix series produced in English is held by the fourth season of «Stranger Things». In its first 28 days of release it amassed 1.35 billion HW. The most popular among non-English language series is the first season of «Squid Game», which amassed 1.65 billion HW in the 4 weeks since its release.
These series' stats for the above period are equal to about 6 years of streaming by xQc, 7 years of Twitch broadcasts by the OTK team and 2 months of streaming by the entire English-language segment of Twitch. In addition, in the 28 days since their release, both «Stranger Things» and «Squid Game» racked up 14 times more Hours Watched than The International 2022, and 3 times more than all of PUBG Mobile esports since 2019.
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At the time of publication, the first season of «Wednesday» holds the Top 1 spot on the Netflix chart for the second week in a row. Will the series be able to break into the top spot at the end of the first month since its release and become the most popular series in the history of the streaming service? We will find out very soon.
