Just one week before its Netflix debut on July 20th, season four of The Walking Dead is available for streaming Romantic drama Virgin RiverThe platform is dominating worldwide at the moment.
The streaming giant’s New Top 10 charts are out, revealing the most-watched content across the globe — spanning both movies and TV series, as well as English and non-English content. For the seven-day period ending July 24, Virgin RiverOver 105.4 million hours were viewed around the world. Far surpassing Stranger Things 4 in the #2 spot, which banked 74.9 million hours viewed (as the latter’s chart-topping run finally starts to subside).
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The other amazing thing about Virgin River’sNetflix is currently the dominant streaming service in the world, but what about global dominance?
It should go without saying that it’s become exceedingly rare to see an original on the streamer even Make itThere are no longer four seasons. Three seasons, or even earlier, is the standard cutoff point, and it happens more often than you might think. This suggests or signifies that Netflix is seeing. Virgin RiverContinue to drive sign-up activity, even though the streamer is coming off of a quarter that saw it lose almost 1 million subscribers.
Every season brings new challenges. #VirginRiver…the urge to move to a small town in the middle of the woods where nobody knows me so I can plant roots in a tight knit community…gets stronger and stronger 🥴🥴🥴
— Nikki 📚☕️🤓 (@NCTee16) July 23, 2022
This phenomenon isn’t totally determinative of a viewer’s motivations, by the way. Netflix tracks the first piece that someone watches when they sign up for Netflix. Perhaps Virgin River just happened to be the first thing in your field of view after you signed up, so you thought, what the heck — let’s give it a try! It could have been the reason why you signed up. On an individual basis, it’s hard to infer to much from that.
However, if there are a lot of new subscribers who will be signing up straight away, Virgin River after signing up? This tells you something.
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Here’s how Netflix summarizes Virgin River, by the way, for those of you who haven’t checked out the show yet. “Trying to outrun the pain in her past, nurse practitioner Mel Monroe moves from LA to a remote northern California town and is surprised by what — and who — she finds.”
You should also know that the show is based off Robyn Carr’s highly acclaimed book series.
You can also take a look at other Netflix series below. Virgin RiverThey are also among the most-watched videos on the platform. Again, this is from the data that Netflix releases weekly (with today’s tranche covering July 18-24).
- Virgin River Season 4 — 105.4 million hours viewed
- Stranger Things 4 — 74.9 million hours viewed
- Resident Evil: Season 1 — 73.2 million hours viewed
- Manifest: Season 1 — 53.2 million hours viewed
- Stranger Things 3 — 26.6 million hours viewed
- Stranger Things 2 — 25.6 million hours viewed
- Manifest: Season 2 — 25.4 million hours viewed
- Stranger Things — 23.2 million hours viewed
- Kung Fu Panda Season 1: The Dragon Knight — 21 million hours viewed
- Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy — 18.2 million