Streaming Ratings: ‘Outer Banks’ Rejoins Top 10 With Season 4 Launch

The season four premiere of Outer Banks brought the Netflix show back onto the streaming charts — but with only half a season released this time, it fell well short of its last premiere.

The YA drama delivered 1.19 billion minutes of viewing for the week of Oct. 7-13 (season four debuted Oct. 10), good for second place overall in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. By comparison, season three’s opening week in February 2023 — which featured the entire season released at once — drew 3.15 billion minutes of watch time.

The half-season release (part two premiered Thursday) for Outer Banks undoubtedly played a part in the lower viewing time total. Season four of Emily in Paris similarly had a sizable decline with a half-season premiere in August (but season three of Bridgerton in May did not).

Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind led the Oct. 7-13 charts with 1.23 billion minutes of viewing; no other show crossed the 1 billion mark. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez story dipped slightly under that mark (953 million minutes) and dropped to third place overall after thee weeks at No. 1. Paramount+’s Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, continued a run of solid performances and hit a series high of 572 million minutes midway through its second season.

Bob’s Burgers (864 million minutes on Hulu) led the acquired series rankings, finishing a little ahead of Bluey (844 million minutes on Disney+). Gilmore Girls continued its annual fall surge on Netflix with 578 million minutes of watch time. On the movies chart, the Netflix premiere of Bad Boys: Ride or Die (823 million minutes) topped the streamer’s Menendez Brothers documentary (612 million).

Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Oct. 7-13, 2024, are below.

Overall

1. Love Is Blind (Netflix), 1.23 billion minutes viewed
2. Outer Banks (Netflix), 1.19 billion
3. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix), 953 million
4. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 864 million
5. Bluey (Disney+), 844 million
6. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Netflix), 823 million
7. Nobody Wants This (Netflix), 787 million
8. Family Guy (Hulu), 765 million
9. Grey’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 657 million
10. SWAT (Netflix/Paramount+), 653 million

Original Series

1. Love Is Blind, 1.23 billion minutes
2. Outer Banks, 1.19 billion
3. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, 953 million
4. Nobody Wants This, 787 million
5. Tulsa King (Paramount+), 572 million
6. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), 429 million
7. The Great British Baking Show (Netflix), 415 million
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime Video), 375 million*
9. Agatha All Along (Disney+), 310 million
10. Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix), 300 million
*Doesn’t include viewing time for the Oct. 3 season two finale due to an “operational issue” at Nielsen.

Acquired Series

1. Bob’s Burgers, 864 million minutes
2. Bluey, 844 million
3. Family Guy, 765 million
4. Grey’s Anatomy, 657 million
5. SWAT, 653 million
6. SpongeBob SquarePants (Paramount+), 589 million
7. Gilmore Girls (Netflix), 578 million
8. Law & Order: SVU (Hulu/Peacock), 565 million
9. The Big Bang Theory (Max), 526 million
10. The Simpsons (Disney+/Hulu), 512 million

Movies

1. Bad Boys: Ride or Die, 823 million minutes
2. The Menendez Brothers (Netflix), 612 million
3. Inside Out 2 (Disney+), 513 million
4. Sing (Netflix/Peacock), 494 million
5. Pixels (Netflix), 315 million
6. The Garfield Movie (Netflix), 214 million
7. The Lonely Planet (Netflix), 211 million
8. Hocus Pocus (Disney+), 208 million
9. Salem’s Lot (2024) (Max), 207 million
10. Trouble (2024) (Netflix), 201 million