‘Stranger Things 4’ surpasses 1 billion hours watched, according to Netflix

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Since the season’s final two episodes aired on July 1, the show has surpassed one billion hours watched worldwide, according to the network’s internal measurement. It is the first series in English, and only the second in any language, to accumulate over a billion hours of viewing.

strange things 4 It now has 1.15 billion viewing hours in its first 28 days of release, which includes both parts of the season. The first seven episodes racked up 930.32 million hours in the first 28 days, while the eighth and ninth episodes totaled just under 221 million hours to 301.28 million hours worldwide between the week of June 27 and the week of July 3rd. (In the case of seasons divided as Weird stuff s ozarks (Earlier this year, Netflix added a second batch of episodes for a total of just 28 days of airing.)

Among all Netflix originals in their first 28 days, only squid game (1.65 billion hours) has a longer viewing time. There are three more weeks to accumulate more views for the last two episodes, Weird stuff The Korean attack will likely come close or even pass.

Despite only being available for three days, the last two episodes, which lasted nearly four hours, accounted for nearly three-quarters (73%). Weird stuff’ I watched season four last week. The first three seasons were also in Netflix’s English top 10, as they have been for the last month and a half.

Season 4 set several viewership records, including the biggest opening weekend for a Netflix series, according to the streamer’s own metrics, and Nielsen’s biggest weekly viewership in the United States since the company started weekly streaming. .