Stranger Things: Season 5. Jamie Campbell Bower as Henry Creel in Stranger Things: Season 5. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
stranger things Has returned to reclaim his throne, and has done so by erasing his own records. The latest Nielsen Top 10 report covering United States TV viewing for the week of November 24 shows that stranger things Has set a new historical benchmark for streaming viewership.
Following the release of the first four episodes of Season 5 on Wednesday, November 26, the juggernaut show, which most notably broke a Netflix record, produced a staggering 8.46 billion viewing minutes during the Thanksgiving week windowThat equates to 140 million hours, and looking at the window, it only took three days (or a little less considering the “primetime” release),
As we reported when Netflix’s official figures were released, Season 5 Volume 1 generated 284.2M global The viewing time from November 23 to November 30, which is equivalent to 59.6 million views.
To put this number in perspective, stranger things Not only broke the previous Nielsen record; This destroyed it for more than 1 billion minutes.
Appropriately, the previous record holder for largest weekly viewing was also stranger thingsFollowing the release of Season 4, the show previously captured 7,2 billion minutes during the week of May 30 to June 5, 2022,
Important: According to Nielsen data, four new episodes of Season 5 represented 57% A total of 8.46 billion minutes were watched this week. This means that the remaining percentage were people who were watching or re-watching the previous season.
The show also dominated the key demographic, with 59% of viewers falling into the category of adults 18-49 – the largest percentage for that demographic among all of the week’s top 10 titles.
Stranger Things: Season 5. (Left to Right) Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things: Season 5. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Season 5 build-up
Nielsen data tracks a clear trajectory of “rewatch” fever leading up to the season 5 premiere, with the series up for the eighth consecutive week, reportedly “one of the few streaming titles that over-indexes the TV population among teens.”
Even in the three weeks before new episodes arrived, previous seasons dominated the charts:
- Week of November 3: #3 overall (921 million minutes)
- Week of November 10: #1 overall (1.345 billion minutes)
- Week of November 17: #1 overall (1.683 billion minutes)
The full top 10 for the week of November 24 to November 30 were as follows landman Paramount+ is in second place and Netflix is in second place animal in me In the third.
More data from Nielsen can be found here Official Nielsen Top 10 Website,