“Love Is Blind” has once again returned to the Nielsen Streaming Top 10. The series re-debuted in third place with 1.1 billion minutes watched from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, during which the first six episodes of Season 7 were available for five days, though it should be noted that this total also includes any viewership of all previous seasons during the viewing window. The unscripted dating show is a regular heavyweight for Netflix, and can be expected to remain on the chart for several weeks, as new episodes of Season 7 continued to roll out through Oct. 30.
During the Sept. 30-Oct. 6 window, though, it came behind two other Netflix titles: “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” in first place for the third week in a row, this time with 1.4 billion minutes watched down from 2.4 billion minutes watched the week before; and “Nobody Wants This,” which jumped to No. 2 with 1.2 billion minutes watched after last week’s third place, billion-minute debut.
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“Inside Out 2” continued to do big numbers after debuting at No. 2 with 1.8 billion minutes watched; in its second week on the chart, the Pixar movie took fourth place with 908 million minutes. The movie’s success on Disney+ shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that it became the highest-grossing animated film of all time when it hit theaters earlier this year. Additionally, Disney reported that it had crossed 30.5 million streaming views in its first five days of availability. Still, the film’s ability to compete on the chart with popular TV titles, which bear much longer running times, is notable.
The rest of the chart was populated by a mix of Nielsen mainstays and other long-running popular titles: “Bluey,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Family Guy” and “Grey’s Anatomy” all land on the chart most weeks, and took fifth through eighth place, respectively, during the Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 viewing window. Ninth place went to “Spongebob Squarepants,” which was watched for 580 million minutes on Paramount+, while the bottom spot went to “Gilmore Girls,” which frequently regains popularity during the autumn months and hit 565 million minutes watched on Netflix.
See Nielsen’s list of overall streaming rankings for Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 first, followed by original streaming titles, acquired titles and then films.
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