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Welcome alongside to a different high 10 report! This week, we cowl the return of Wednesday with season 2 half 2, which noticed a 500%+ bump in viewing hours, and all the opposite large tales from this week’s high 10 numbers.
All of the numbers for this text are sourced from Netflix’s official top 10 site. You may as well browse all of Netflix’s knowledge simply utilizing our top 10 search tool.
As at all times, let’s see how this week’s high 10s stack up towards prior weeks:
- English TV – 64,400,000 (Rank 7 of 116 weeks)
- English Movie – 92,400,000 (Rank 22 of 116 weeks)
- Non-English TV – 28,700,000 (Rank 54 of 116 weeks)
- Non-English Movie – 30,700,000 (Rank 75 of 116 weeks)
Fast be aware on an omission or two: Pokémon Concierge returned with “extra episodes” inside season 1, however that labeling appears to be like to have been a mistake, provided that the sequence missed out on the highest 10s fully this week. The brand new Countdown sequence, forward of the large reside struggle on Saturday, Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford, additionally did not characteristic very similar to Countdown: Taylor vs Serrano, though the one for Mike Tyson and Jake Paul did.
1. Wednesday is again! Will Season 3 be a break up season? Present monitoring beneath S1.
Wednesday is again this week with a 549% rise in viewing hours, with 219.20M viewing hours equating to twenty-eight.2M views in week 5.
| Week in Prime 10 | Week Interval | Hours Seen | Views / CVE | Weekly Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 3 to Aug 10, 2025 | 201,600,000 (New) | 50,000,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Aug 10 to Aug 17, 2025 | 117,300,000 (-42%) | 29,100,000 | 1 |
| 3 | Aug 17 to Aug 24, 2025 | 54,000,000 (-54%) | 13,400,000 | 1 |
| 4 | Aug 24 to Aug 31, 2025 | 33,800,000 (-37%) | 8,400,000 | 3 |
| 5 | Aug 31 to Sep 7, 2025 | 219,200,000 (+549%) | 28,200,000 | 1 |
As we’ve coated earlier than, break up seasons are difficult as a result of the viewing hours we get when an element 2 releases are a jumble of each elements, making comparisons particularly difficult.
That’s why we’ve tapped our outdated resident numbers skilled to get his opinion.
Frederic’s (Netflix & Chiffres) methodology entails combining the viewing hours from the primary 4 weeks of Half 1, treating that whole as “Week 1,” after which dividing by the runtime of your entire season. The primary weeks of Half 1 and Half 2 are then mixed as “Week 2,” and so forth. This strategy makes it doable to trace the evolution of whole season views, which is very related for the all-time Prime 10 rankings.
Utilizing this methodology, the entire variety of views for Wednesday Season 2 (as of Sunday) may be in contrast straight with different break up releases. Nonetheless, it can’t be utilized to Cobra Kai Season 6 as a result of the discharge elements have been too far aside, and it additionally doesn’t work if full viewing knowledge for Half 1 is unavailable as much as the discharge of Half 2.
Right here’s what that appears like:
Utilizing that methodology, Wednesday is the second-best-performing break up season to this point, simply behind Stranger Issues season 4. That inevitably means season 2 will enter Netflix’s all-time high 10, however when?
It must be within the subsequent few weeks, and Frederic predicts it’s at the moment eying the #4 place and can find yourself with a complete of between 110M and 135M views (down 50% on S1)
As a reminder, right here’s how Netflix’s 91-day metric works with break up releases:
- Netflix provides the viewings hours for the primary batch of 4 episodes over the complete 91 days after the Half 1 launch plus the view hours for the Half 2 episodes over the complete 91 days after the discharge of half 2, and divide by the entire runtime of the 2 batches collectively.
- When the second batch releases, that runtime will increase to account for the complete sequence.
- Half 1 viewing shall be added to Half 2 viewing for Most Standard consideration as soon as all episodes have premiered.
- The present shall be eligible to enter the Most Standard checklist as much as 91 days after Half 2 launch.
Need to see the leap on a line graph? Listed below are a few of Netflix’s current break up seasons, and you may see the dramatic leap. Does this imply season 3 of Wednesday shall be break up? We’d wager sure as a result of, in comparison with some reveals which have or are reverting to binge releases, Wednesday can clearly preserve its momentum over two months.
Allowing for this chart is monitoring the hours, not the views, right here’s a have a look at Wednesday S2 vs different break up seasons to this point:
2. KPop Demon Hunters Experiences Gravity For The First Time…
KPOP Demon Hunters lastly, in week 12, suffered a double-digit proportion drop. Nonetheless, amazingly, that’s not fairly as unhealthy because it sounds, provided that it principally dropped to the viewership quantity it was at earlier than the Sing-Alongside model was launched. Actually unbelievable provided that the graph beneath nonetheless resembles a straight line and can certainly be unbeatable for a lot of, a few years to return…
As a reminder, the 91-day interval for KPop Demon Hunters ends on September nineteenth (subsequent Friday as of the time of publishing), giving it ~12 days to build up extra views for its remaining depend. Based mostly on its present trajectory, it’s going to be properly north of 300M views.
3. Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish and Love Con Revenge Lead Docs
We have now a brand new contender for the most-watched documentary of the yr. In week 2, views and viewing hours grew over 200% making it one of many largest documentary jumps in Netflix historical past…
Love Con Revenge launched on Friday and debuted comparatively forward of the F1: Drive to Survive seasons with 3M views however far decrease than the current launch of Match for TV: The Actuality of the Largest Loser, which soared in week 1 with 7.5M views.
4. My Life With The Walter Boys in Week 2
In its second week, My Life with the Walter Boys noticed viewing hours dip by 8% (in comparison with a 70% leap in season 1), however since season 2 opened at a a lot larger stage, the outlook stays robust. The present is at the moment monitoring forward of season 1 with 22.7M views versus 20.3M.
5. Ms. Rachel Returns
Ms. Rachel has had an distinctive run in 2025 within the Netflix high 10s featured for twenty-four weeks to this point, with it usually hovering across the tail finish of the weekly high 10 English TV charts. After all, a part of the rationale it might probably achieve this properly with the views metric is that every season is simply 4 episodes lengthy, so with the arrival of season 2, how does it examine to the launch of season 1?
My suspicion is that Ms. Rachel will observe a considerably comparable trajectory to CoComelon on Netflix whereby the extra content material that’s launched over time not solely dilutes the viewing hours throughout a number of seasons (no prizes for this) but additionally then reward newer reveals that come into the algorithm for which there’s going to be fairly a couple of in direction of the tip of this yr (corresponding to Sesame Avenue) and past.
6. Two Graves in week 2!
Final week, we coated the Spanish sequence Two Graves and advised it may very well be a giant hit for Netflix Spain, so has that momentum carried into week 2? The reply is, somewhat bit, however The Gardener, launched earlier this yr, is monitoring now barely forward and Berlin continues to look out of attain for the foreseeable.
That’s it for this week – we’ll be again with extra high 10 tales subsequent week.
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