‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Masters of the Air’ Break Through Netflix-Dominated Streaming Top 10 | Charts
Since its momentous release in July as it faced off against “Barbie” and gave birth to “Barbenheimer,” “Oppenheimer” has made nearly $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales and has swept award shows, including with 13 nominations at the Oscars. Now it has exploded onto this week’s streaming chart, landing in fourth to break up Netflix’s hold on the top five spots. And audiences who waited until it hit their favorite subscription streaming platform to watch it — or rewatch it — were given the chance this week as the movie landed on Peacock.
While Peacock threw a wrench in Netflix’s grip on the top five, Apple TV+ broke up Netflix’s hold on the rest of the top 10 with its new World War II miniseries “Masters of the Air” coming in ninth this week after it debuted in sixth last week.
The rest of the streaming chart was Netflix’s to own with a mix of documentaries, crime and reality raking in the lion’s share of viewership. That’s a mix we expect to see more of in the next few months following the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as those genres rely less on actors and writers. The true crime documentary “Lover, Stalker, Killer” took the No. 1 spot, rising from fifth last week. Coming in second for another week was season one of the Australian thriller “The Tourist,” while the sports rom-com movie “Players” was third.
Rounding out the top five was the Valentine’s Day drop of the sixth season of “Love is Blind,” with 695,000 U.S. households tuning in. The first episode of the new season of Netflix’s beloved reality dating series drew in 24% more viewers than the previous season. Millennial households were most interested in this season’s drama with the demographic over-indexing by 10% on viewership.
Netflix’s premiere season of “One Day,” a British television series based on the 2009 novel of the same name, came in seventh place. The streamer’s “American Assassin,” a 2017 box office flop starring Michael Keaton, dropped from last week’s ranking of third to come in eighth, and Syfy’s “Resident Alien” landed on Netflix and came in tenth.
For this week’s linear rankings, the “2024 People’s Choice Awards” nabbed the top spot. The awards show, mixing the best of the best across movies, music, television, and pop culture, stood apart from the rest of the chart which was made up of scripted and reality staples.
CBS had the most scripted programs in the top 10 this week with “FBI” in second, “The Equalizer” in sixth, “Young Sheldon” in eighth and “NCIS” in ninth. Reality competitions were dominated by ABC with “American Idol” in third and “The Bachelor” in tenth, and NBC’s “America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League” rounded out the list in fifth. ABC’s “Wheel of Fortune” took home two spots this week with fourth and seventh.
Cole Strain is VP and Head of R&D at Samba TV, a WrapPRO partner. Click here for more data and analysis from Samba TV.
The Wrap Report provides an exclusive first look at the most watched movies and TV series from the past week across both streaming and linear television sourced from viewership trends collected from Samba TV’s panel of more than 3 million households drawn from over 25 million connected TVs, balanced to the U.S. Census
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