‘Stranger Things’ Was 2022’s Most Streamed Title

52 billion minutes.

That’s how a lot Stranger Issues was consumed by Netflix subscribers in 2022. 52 billion! That’s the equal of 98,934 years. Of Stranger Issues!

That’s in accordance with Nielsen, who launched their report on the highest streaming titles of the yr, with the monstrous Netflix hit (clearly) operating away with the primary slot. The second-most-streamed present of 2022 was NCIS, the long-running CBS sequence that can be obtainable on Netflix. Some 38 billion minutes of NCIS had been watched in 2022 — or 72,298 years. (Solely 72,298 years? Pathetic.) The #3 title on the general record was the massively widespread kids’s present Cocomelon, which can be obtainable on Netflix.

And Netflix was the dominant pressure in streaming on the whole, with 13 of the highest 15 unique streaming reveals of the yr all belonging to the positioning. Different much-watched Netflix titles embrace their new hits Wednesday and Dahmer, together with longtime favorites like Cobra Kai, Bridgerton, and Ozark. (The one non-Netflix reveals within the high 15 had been Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy and The Boys.)

The record of the most-streamed acquired sequence was a mixture of new and ongoing reveals like NCIS and Cocomelon, adopted by Gray’s Anatomy, Legal Minds, and Bluey, and older favorites like Gilmore Ladies, Seinfeld, and Pals. In the meantime, the most-streamed film of 2022 was really a 2021 launch: Disney’s Encanto, which in accordance with Nielsen was seen for 27.4 billion minutes final yr. The highest 2022 movie was one other Disney title, the streaming-exclusive Pixar movie Turning Purple, with 11.4 billion minutes. Netflix’s high unique movie of 2022 by their measurement was the Ryan Reynolds thriller The Adam Venture.

Hold all of those numbers in thoughts whenever you marvel “Why are they making one other spinoff of Stranger Issues?” or “Why did they cancel Present X that I used to be obsessive about?”