Streaming Ratings: ‘Red One’ Tops ‘Carry-On’ in Holiday Action Movie Matchup

Prime Video’s Red One and Netflix’s Carry-On both had big opening weeks in streaming, with Red One coming out on top in Nielsen’s charts.

Christmas-themed action comedy Red One, which the Amazon streamer touted as its biggest worldwide premiere to date, racked up 2.1 billion minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Dec. 9-15. (The movie, starring Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson, also had a short theatrical run, making about $186 million worldwide at the box office.)

Carry-On, meanwhile, scored 1.69 billion minutes of viewing for Netflix for the week, albeit with one fewer day: It premiered on Dec. 13, while Red One began streaming Dec. 12 on Prime Video. The thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman is currently in Netflix’s top five English-language films to date (as measured over the first 91 days of release).

Netflix also had a strong streaming premiere for It Ends With Us, the controversy-laden movie based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel. It drew 977 million minutes of watch time for the week, good for fourth place overall in Nielsen’s rankings.

Black Doves led the series charts for Dec. 9-15 with just over 1 billion viewing minutes, up 11 percent from 899 million the previous week. The Madness, which had been No. 1 overall the prior two weeks, fell to fourth among original series with 560 million minutes, behind Netflix’s dark comedy No Good Deed (883 million) and Paramount+’s Taylor Sheridan drama Landman (826 million), which continued its strong run. Jamie Foxx’s Netflix special What Had Happened Was … drew 413 million minutes of viewing.

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 Dec. 9-15, 2024, are below.

Overall

1. Red One (Prime Video), 2.1 billion minutes viewed
2. Carry-On (Netflix), 1.69 billion
3. Black Doves (Netflix), 1 billion
4. It Ends With Us (Netflix), 977 million
5. Bluey (Disney+), 905 million
6. No Good Deed (Netflix), 883 million
7. Landman (Paramount+), 826 million
8. Grey’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 803 million
9. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 743 million
10. Family Guy (Hulu), 730 million

Original Series

1. Black Doves, 1 billion minutes
2. No Good Deed, 883 million
3. Landman, 826 million
4. The Madness (Netflix), 560 million
5. The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (Netflix), 552 million
6. Lioness (Paramount+), 474 million
7. Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was … (Netflix), 413 million
8. La Palma (Netflix), 355 million
9. A Man on the Inside (Netflix), 308 million
10. AP Bio (Netflix/Peacock), 306 million

Acquired Series

1. Bluey, 905 million minutes
2. Grey’s Anatomy, 803 million
3. Bob’s Burgers, 743 million
4. Family Guy, 730 million
5. NCIS (Hulu/Netflix/Paramount+), 658 million
6. Lost (Hulu/Netflix), 565 million
7. American Dad (Hulu), 544 million
8. Gilmore Girls (Netflix), 529 million
9. The Big Bang Theory (Max), 510 million
10. Law & Order: SVU (Hulu/Peacock), 506 million

Movies

1. Red One, 2.1 billion minutes
2. Carry-On, 1.69 billion
3. It Ends With Us, 977 million
4. That Christmas (Netflix), 596 million
5. Subservience (Netflix), 558 million
6. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018) (Peacock), 537 million
7. Elf (Hulu/Max), 488 million
8. Home Alone (Disney+), 451 million
9. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Max), 322 million
10. Mary (Netflix), 320 million