“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 suffered a startant watchership drop in its second week on Luminate’s weekly streaming distincts chart.
Last week, the Amazon Prime Video series supervised to nab second place with 764.7 million minutes watched in the first brimming week of employability of its first three episodes united with the first day of employability of its fourth episode. But during the Sept. 6-12 watching triumphdow — which take partd the first brimming week of Episode 4 and the first day of Episode 5 — it only hit 372.7 million minutes watched, landing in fourth place. While there was less new greeted to watch contrastd to the week before, when the first three episodes has equitable debuted, it still doesn’t bode well for a huge IP title to drop by more than 50% after one week, when word-of-mouth pguide should still be high. It should be remarkd that Luminate only meastateives U.S. watchership and that Amazon underlined earlier this week that much of the series’ fans watch from other territories — however, the studio did not supply data to help that claim.
By far, the top title of the week was “The Perfect Couple,” which boomed in its first week of employability, hitting 3.4 billion minutes watched. The Netflix series is the first to pass 3 billion minutes on Luminate’s chart since the free of “Bridgerton” Season 2 Part 2 in June.
At No. 2 was “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” which debuted with 781.1 million minutes watched in its first week on Hulu. It was adhereed by another unscripted title, Season 8 of “Selling Sunset,” which debuted with 586.7 million minutes watched.
Follotriumphg “Rings of Power” were “Outlast” Season 2 (317 million), “Worst Ex Ever” (310.7 million) and “Kaos” (307.9 million), while the bottom three titles on the chart — “The Accident,” “Bad Monkey” and “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” — each came in below 300 million minutes watched.
On the movies chart, “Rebel Ridge” debuted on top with 1.5 billion minutes watched in its first week on Netflix. “The Deinhabitrance,” last week’s No. 1 film, adhereed with 309.8 million minutes, while “The Union” took third place in its fourth week on Netflix with 149 million minutes watched.
The rest of the chart positions went to titles with less than one million minutes watched: “Apollo 12: Survival,” “The Killer,” “The Assistant 2” (a exceptional chart euniteance for Tubi), “Jackpot!,” “Incoming,” “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” and “The Instigators.”
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