Second series of Squid Game tops list of most-viewed shows
Netflix originals have once again dominated the top 10 most-watched shows on the streamer in the second half of 2024, with acquisitions slipping down the rankings, according to a bi-annual engagement report.
The streamer’s What We Watched report ranks shows – original and licensed – in terms of views (hours viewed divided by runtime). The previous report in September also showed that no acquisition made it into the top 10, with the highest-ranked licensed programme, Queen of Tears, coming in at 14 with 29.2m views (682.6m hours).
The latest report shows that the highest-ranked licensed programme in the second half of 2024 was Fox original Prison Break series one, which came in 16th place with 31.9m (511.1m hours).
Of the shows which landed on the streamer in the six months between July and December 2024, the second series of Korean drama Squid Game was the most-viewed, with 86.5m views (619.9m hours), despite landing on 26 December - only six days before the end of the year.
Produced by Siren Pictures, Squid Game was 11.4m viewers ahead of the second-most-popular title, Nicole Kidman drama The Perfect Couple, which had 75.1m views (383.1m hours) since it landed on 5 September.
True Crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story came in third place with 69.7m views (550.4m hours) followed by Emily in Paris series four with 57.8m views (344.1m hours).
Also in the top five was Nobody Wants This, which had 56.8m views (250.9m hours).
In sixth position was Norwegian Netflix limited series La Palma (52.2m views), followed by the live-streamed boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson on November 15 (48.9m views)
Mexican Netflix original drama Accidente (The Accident) came in eighth place (41.2m views), with Black Doves (38.8m views) and Cobra Kai series six (38.3m views) coming in ninth and tenth places respectively.
Nearly a third of all viewing came from non-English shows and films, according to the report, with Norway’s La Palma and Mexico’s Accidente among the most-watched series, as well as breakouts like Family Pack from France, The Empress series two from Germany, Senna from Brazil and One Hundred Years of Solitude from Colombia.
Netflix, which first started reporting its engagement figures in December 2023, said its members watched over 94bn hours in the second half of the year, a 5% increase year on year.
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