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‘Succession’ Joins Streaming Rankings, ‘Night Agent’ Dominates
'Succession' Joins Streaming Rankings, 'Night Agent' Dominates,HBO's 'Succession' made its first appearance in Nielsen's streaming charts for the week after its final season premiere.

‘Succession’ Joins Streaming Rankings, ‘Night Agent’ Dominates

Sarah Snook in ‘Succession’Claudette Barius/HBO

Logo textHBO’s Succession made its first appearance in Nielsen’s streaming rankings on the heels of its final season premiere.

The Emmy-winning show had 480 million minutes of watch time on HBO Max for the week of March 27-April 2 (it premiered on March 26). The premiere set what was then a first-night ratings record for Succession (since surpassed by other episodes this season), and a sizable portion of the viewing on HBO Max in the following was likely for that episode. Nielsen counts all available episodes of a show in calculating its streaming totals.

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Netflix’s The Night Agent spent its second straight week as the No. 1 overall title in the rankings. The espionage thriller grew by about 18 percent over its premiere week to 3.06 billion minutes of viewing, lapping the field. Two other Netflix titles, Love Is Blind (1.24 billion minutes) and the movie Murder Mystery 2 (1.12 billion), also crossed the billion-minute mark. The premiere of Murder Mystery 2, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, also brought its 2019 predecessor back into the movie rankings, where it drew 423 million minutes of viewing.

The Mandalorian improved by about 10 percent week to week for Disney+, rising to 878 million minutes of viewing. Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso (570 million minutes) edged up from 568 million the previous week.

Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for March 27-April 2 are below.

Overall

  1. The Night Agent (Netflix), 3.06 billion minutes viewed2. Love Is Blind (Netflix), 1.24 billion3. Murder Mystery 2 (Netflix), 1.12 billion4. The Mandalorian (Disney+), 878 million5. Cocomelon (Netflix), 810 million6. Bluey (Disney+), 767 million7. South Park (HBO Max), 757 million8. NCIS (Netflix/Paramount+), 746 million9. Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix), 578 million10. Ted Lasso (Apple TV+), 570 million

Original Series

  1. The Night Agent, 3.06 billion minutes2. Love Is Blind, 1.24 billion 3. The Mandalorian, 878 million4. Ted Lasso, 570 million5. Emergency: NYC (Netflix), 545 million6. Shadow and Bone (Netflix), 519 million7. Unstable (Netflix), 388 million8. You (Netflix), 377 million9. Outer Banks (Netflix), 358 million10. Waco: American Apocalypse (Netflix), 337 million

Acquired Series

  1. Cocomelon, 810 million minutes2. Bluey, 767 million3. South Park, 757 million4. NCIS, 746 million5. Grey’s Anatomy, 578 million6. Supernatural (Netflix), 535 million7. The Big Bang Theory (HBO Max), 501 million8. Succession (HBO Max), 480 million9. Friends (HBO Max), 403 million10. The Walking Dead (Netflix), 384 million