The Pitt Finally Cracks Nielsen Streaming Top 10 Chart, Adolescence Muscles Past Reacher to Claim No. 1
Adolescence inched up a spot to claim No. 1 on Nielsen's U.S. ranking of streaming originals for the week of March 17.
The acclaimed Netflix real-time drama this time around amassed north of 1.4 billion minutes viewed across its four hour-long episodes. It was followed by the chart debut of Netflix's The Residence, which drew 1.36 billion minutes viewed across eight episodes.
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Prime Video's Reacher slipped from the top spot to No. 3 with 1.1 billion minutes viewed/23 available episodes, followed by Apple TV+'s Severance (with a series high of 876 million minutes/19 episodes) and Paramount+'s 1923 (809 million minutes/13 available episodes).
Rounding out the Top 10 streaming originals for the week of March 17 were Netflix's Temptation Island (652 million minutes viewed/10 episodes), Prime Video's The Wheel of Time (538 million minutes/20 available episodes), the chart debut of Max's The Pitt in its 10th week of eligibility (466 million minutes/12 available episodes), Prime Video's Invincible (445 million minutes/25 episodes) and Netflix's Running Point (373 million minutes/10 episodes).
Meanwhile on Nielsen's overall streaming ranking (which included movies and library titles), the 160-minute box office hit Wicked made its debut at No. 9 with 905 million minutes viewed on Peacock.
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