{"id":31136,"date":"2022-05-31T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-sets-netflix-premiere-weekend-record-obi-wan-kenobi-ratings\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:04:22","slug":"stranger-things-4-sets-netflix-premiere-weekend-record-obi-wan-kenobi-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-sets-netflix-premiere-weekend-record-obi-wan-kenobi-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stranger Things 4&#8217; Sets Netflix Premiere Weekend Record &#8211; &#8216;Obi-Wan Kenobi&#8217; Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p>In a veritable <em>Episode 011 &#8211; <\/em><em>Attack of the Ratings Superlatives<\/em>both Netflix&#8217;s <em>Stranger Things 4<\/em> and Disney + &#8216;s <em>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em> have come forth with varying degrees of \u201crecord viewership\u201d claims.<span id=\"more-1234835237\"\/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline-floating-gallery\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Stranger Things 4<\/em>, which released its first seven XL episodes on May 27, grandfather clocked in with Netflix&#8217;s \u201cbiggest premiere weekend ever\u201d for an English-language TV series, by amassing nearly 287 million hours viewed.  (It thus lapped <em>Bridgerton<\/em>which previously held the record of 193 million hours.)<\/p>\n<p>Netflix also says that the latest adventures of Eleven &#038; Co. reached \u201c# 1\u201d by their own in-house metric in a total of 83 countries, marking another premiere weekend record.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, as previously reported, <em>Stranger Things<\/em> heroine Max Mayfield&#8217;s favorite Kate Bush song (at least until she grows sick of it!), \u201cRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)\u201d shot up to No. 1 on iTunes, some 37 years after its original release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Obi-Wan<\/em>&#8216;s superlatives, a bit less defined they are, <em>errrm<\/em>.  But regarding the live-action <em>Star Wars<\/em> series&#8217; double-episode premiere, the House of Mouse tweeted on Tuesday morning, \u201cThank you to the best fans in the galaxy for making @ObiWanKenobi the most-watched #DisneyPlus Original series premiere globally to date, based on hours streamed in an opening weekend.&#8221;  (TVLine inquired, but no further viewership details are being made available.)<\/p>\n<p>TVLine readers are thus far giving <em>Stranger Things 4<\/em> an average grade of &#8220;A,&#8221; while <em>Obi-Wan<\/em>&#8216;s first two episodes are netting an &#8220;A-.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Obi-Wan<\/em> continues its six-episode run this Wednesday, while <em>Stranger Things 4<\/em> drops its final two, X<em>X<\/em>L episodes on Friday, July 1.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Grade Season 4, Part 1 of 'Stranger Things' overall:\" src=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/11128520\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"cs-iframe-embed\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/><noscript><iframe title=\"Grade 'Obi-Wan Kenobi's first two episodes:\" src=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/11125433\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"cs-iframe-embed\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a veritable Episode 011 &#8211; Attack of the Ratings Superlativesboth Netflix&#8217;s Stranger Things 4 and Disney + &#8216;s Obi-Wan Kenobi have come forth with varying degrees of \u201crecord viewership\u201d claims. Stranger Things 4, which released its first seven XL episodes on May 27, grandfather clocked in with Netflix&#8217;s \u201cbiggest premiere weekend ever\u201d for an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-sets-netflix-premiere-weekend-record-obi-wan-kenobi-ratings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Stranger Things 4&#8217; Sets Netflix Premiere Weekend Record &#8211; &#8216;Obi-Wan Kenobi&#8217; Ratings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stranger-things-season-4-ratings-obi-wan-kenobi.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tvline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stranger-things-season-4-ratings-obi-wan-kenobi.jpg?w=621","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}