STRANGER THINGS Season 2 Had a Staggering Amount of Viewers!
Hot damn... the number of viewers for Stranger Things Season 2 has been revealed and the results are staggering. There were a massive amount of viewers that tuned in to watch when the series premiered on October 27th.
According to the Nielsen data (via Variety) that was released today, within the first three days, the first episode averaged 15.8 million U.S. viewers and nearly 11 million in the demo viewing on the TV. They also revealed that all nine episodes averaged 4 million viewers and 3 million in the demo.
Oh, and in case you're wondering how many people binged all nine episodes within the first 24 hours of its release, that number comes to 361,000 people. I was one of those people. Here's a full breakdown of each episode so far:
“Chapter One” averaged 15.8 million viewers and 11 million people 18-49
“Chapter Two” averaged 13.7 million viewers and 9.6 million people 18-49
“Chapter Three” averaged 11.6 million viewers and 8.1 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Four” averaged 9.3 million viewers and 6.6 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Five” averaged 8 million viewers and 5.6 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Six” averaged 6.4 million viewers and 4.5 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Seven” averaged 5.3 million viewers and 3.7 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Eight” averaged 4.9 million viewers and 3.4 million viewers 18-49
“Chapter Nine” averaged 4.6 million viewers and 3.2 million viewers 18-49
Those numbers will continue to rise as audiences are still slowly getting through the season.
Nielsen is making new efforts to measure TV-show audiences of select subscription streaming services. But Netflix previously said they would not be involved with what they are doing. I'm not sure exactly how Nielson is coming up with these numbers, but Netflix released the following statement:
“The data that Nielsen is reporting is not accurate, not even close, and does not reflect the viewing of these shows on Netflix."
Which means the numbers are probably even higher!