{"id":31232,"date":"2022-05-31T23:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-volume-1-breaks-netflix-viewership-records-in-premiere-weekend-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:17:57","slug":"stranger-things-4-volume-1-breaks-netflix-viewership-records-in-premiere-weekend-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-volume-1-breaks-netflix-viewership-records-in-premiere-weekend-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stranger Things 4&#8217; Volume 1 Breaks Netflix Viewership Records In Premiere Weekend &#8211; Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After a lengthy break imposed by the pandemic, Netflix&#8217;s flagship scripted series returned in full force. <em>Stranger Things 4<\/em> Volume 1, which launched May 25, logged the biggest premiere weekend ever for a Netflix original series with 286.79 Million hours viewed, surpassing <em>Bridgerton<\/em> Season 2, which drew 193M.<\/p>\n<p>This also is the first season of<em> Stranger Things<\/em> to reach # 1 in 83 countries setting another premiere weekend record.  The series reached the Top 10 in all 93 countries Netflix is \u200b\u200btracking.<\/p>\n<p>The release of Season 4 V.1 also lifted the previous seasons of the coming-of-age drama, which all landed in the Netflix Top 10 for English-language series for the week of May 23-29: Season 1 (38M hours viewed ), Season 2 (22.2M hours viewed) and Season 3 (24.3M hours viewed).<\/p>\n<p><em>Stranger Things<\/em> crowded the Top 5, taking the No. 1 spot (Season 4, V.1), No.3 (Season 1), No.4 (Season 3) and No.5 (Season 2.) Coming in at No.2 was the previous week&#8217;s most watched English-language series, <em>The Lincoln Lawyer<\/em>which added 64.8M more hours of viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the global Top 10 among English-language series are <em>Ozark<\/em> S4 (21.9M), <em>The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib<\/em>: Season 1 (19.9M),<em> Love, Death &#038; Robots:<\/em> Volume 3 (15.4M), <em>Bridgerton<\/em> S2 (11.3M), and <em>The Circle S4<\/em> (10.3M).<\/p>\n<p>Underlining <em>Stranger Things<\/em>&#8216;outsized pop culture reach beyond TV, Max Mayfield&#8217;s favorite Kate Bush song \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d from the<em> Stranger Things 4<\/em> soundtrack shot up to # 1 on iTunes &#8211; 37 years after its original release.  On Spotify as of Monday, May 30, there was a more than 8,700% increase in global streams of \u201cRunning Up That Hill (A Deal with God)\u201d by Kate Bush.  There was a more than 9,900% increase in streams in the US on Spotify for the same song.  There was a more than 1,030% increase in global streams of \u201cPass the Dutchie\u201d by Musical Youth.  Since the <em>Stranger Things 4<\/em> premiere, there was a more than 1,600% increase in global streams of Kate Bush&#8217;s catalog.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n    }\n    ;\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '422369225140645');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy break imposed by the pandemic, Netflix&#8217;s flagship scripted series returned in full force. Stranger Things 4 Volume 1, which launched May 25, logged the biggest premiere weekend ever for a Netflix original series with 286.79 Million hours viewed, surpassing Bridgerton Season 2, which drew 193M. This also is the first season of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-4-volume-1-breaks-netflix-viewership-records-in-premiere-weekend-deadline\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Stranger Things 4&#8217; Volume 1 Breaks Netflix Viewership Records In Premiere Weekend &#8211; Deadline<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31233,"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\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/StrangerThings_StrangerThings4_1_00_13_16_04.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/StrangerThings_StrangerThings4_1_00_13_16_04.jpg?w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232"}],"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=31232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}