Stranger Things 4 has turn into the preferred English-language collection on Netflix with the premiere of its final two episodes. The streaming big has revealed that the present has racked up 1.15 billion hours of viewing time throughout the first 28 days of every half’s launch. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the primary seven episodes had a viewing time of 930.32 million hours inside 28 days of the present’s debut. Meanwhile, episodes 8 and 9 reached 221 million hours considered within the week of June twenty seventh to July third.
That makes the collection second solely to Squid Game, which crossed 1.65 billion hours considered inside its first 28 days of launch and which at the moment holds the title for the most-viewed present in Netflix historical past. It even has the potential to overhaul the Korean hit, seeing because it has solely been a number of days because the final two episodes got here out.
Netflix, nevertheless, has but to disclose whether or not Stranger Things 4’s recognition has had a major affect on its subscriber numbers. In 2021, the corporate stated it posted its greatest subscriber progress of the yr through the third quarter, thanks partially to Squid Game. But in April this yr, Netflix admitted that it misplaced about 200,000 subscribers within the first quarter of 2022 as a consequence of a number of points, similar to stiffer competitors and account sharing. The firm stated again then that it is taking steps to show issues round, however we’ll have to attend for its subsequent earnings report to seek out out whether or not Eleven and the remainder of the Hawkins crew have been of any assist.