By In December last year, Netflix released “What We Watched,” a report spanning January-June 2023 spanning 18,000 titles and nearly 100 billion hours viewed across the service.
With plenty of people not getting around to series until many weeks if not months later, the figures covered just how well shows did over a span of months.
“The Night Agent” ended up topping that study with 812.1 million hours viewed in the first half of last year, whilst the Jennifer Lopez-led “The Mother” was the top film with 249.9 million hours viewed.
Now, the streamer has published the same report for the July-December 2023 period and it was the live-action series adaptation of “One Piece” that came out on top with the most watched single season of any series on the service.
In a change from the prior report, they’ve switched to the ‘views’ counting metric they use these days which take hours viewed and divide it by runtime. By that metric, the 7.5 hour long first season of “One Piece” scored just under 72 million total views spanning 541 million hours viewed.
That’s not all though, as the show’s success also drove viewing for the “One Piece” anime series and films, which themselves combined racked up around 50 million views in addition to the live-action show’s numbers.
Second was “Who is Erin Carter?” with 50 million views (253M hours), the third season of “Lupin” with 49.7 million views (274M hours), the third season of “The Witcher” with 47.9 million views (364M hours), and the fourth season of “Sex Education with 46.3 million views (374M hours).
On the movie front, it was Sam Esmail’s apocalyptic film “Leave the World Behind” which was number one with 121 million views. Second was the Gal Gadot-led “Heart of Stone” with 110 million views, whilst Adam Sandler-led “Leo” was third with 96 million.
As Netflix splits things by season, marathon binges of older shows don’t rack up as much, which is why even though “Suits” dominated Netflix charts last summer, it was split across multiple seasons.
Only when combined did it come out on top with 146 million views followed by “Young Sheldon” with 88 million views and “Grey’s Anatomy” with 51 million.
Audiences reportedly watched 90 billion hours of Netflix content for the six month span.
Source: Variety
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