Netflix’s Stranger Things was the most streamed TV show in the United States during 2022, accumulating a jaw-dropping 52 billion minutes viewed across all four of the popular series’ seasons, according to Variety.
Stranger Things claimed the top spot in Nielsen’s year-end streaming rankings in the United States, with season four of the series fueling the numbers last year, with NCIS clocking in at #1 with 38.1 billion minutes watched.
Check out the full lists here:
Top Streaming Series of 2022 (Overall)
- Stranger Things (Netflix) – 52B minutes watched
- NCIS (Netflix) – 38.1B minutes watched
- CoComelon (Netflix) – 37.8B minutes watched
- Ozark (Netflix) – 31.3B minutes watched
- Encanto (Disney+) – 27.4B minutes watched
- Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix) – 26.8B minutes watched
- Criminal Minds (Various) – 24.9B minutes watched
- Bluey (Disney+) – 21.1B minutes watched
- Gilmore Girls (Netflix) – 20.8B minutes watched
- Seinfeld (Netflix) – 19.3B minutes watched
- Supernatural (Netflix) – 18.8B minutes watched
- Wednesday (Netflix) – 18.6B minutes watched
- Heartland (Netflix) – 18B minutes watched
- Cobra Kai (Netflix) – 16.7B minutes watched
- The Simpsons (Disney+) – 15.9B minutes watched
Top Streaming Series of 2022 (Originals)
- Stranger Things (Netflix) – 52B minutes watched
- Ozark (Netflix) – 31.3B minutes watched
- Wednesday (Netflix) – 18.6B minutes watched
- Cobra Kai (Netflix) – 16.7B minutes watched
- Bridgerton (Netflix) – 14B minutes watched
- Virgin River (Netflix) – 13.6B minutes watched
- Dahmer (Netflix) – 13.4B minutes watched
- Love Is Blind (Netflix) – 13.1B minutes watched
- Inventing Anna (Netflix) – 12.9B minutes watched
- The Crown (Netflix) – 12.7B minutes watched
- The Boys (Prime Video) – 10.6B minutes watched
- Great British Baking Show (Netflix) – 10.6B minutes watched
- The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) – 10.5B minutes watched
- The Last Kingdom (Netflix) – 10.4B minutes watched
- The Rings of Power (Prime Video) – 9.4B minutes watched
With 2023 here, it will be interesting to see what the streaming numbers look like, including those related to live-streaming platform, as the competitive field becomes more populated, with the likes of Paramount+, and others, adding more content.
