Netflix’s Lupine’s Most Popular Show In Over A Year

Netflix’s latest hit program (at least, according to Netflix) is Lupine, a French-language heist series that attracts the number of audiences unseen for an original Netflix show since The Witcher in December 2019. in more viewers than La Casa de Papel. The Spanish language, entitled Money Heist for English audiences, previously ruled as Netflix’s largest non-English language program.

Netflix said Tuesday that it projects Lupine to be viewed by more than 70 million accounts within the first four weeks of release. It reached number 2 on the company’s popularity charts in the US, and it reached number 1 in dozens of other countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Vietnam and the Philippines (and we would assume, France also …).

To put the projection of 70 million households in Lupine into context, the third season of La Casa de Papel was watched in the first four weeks by about 65 million accounts, which the company predicted at the time. The Witcher, Netflix’s most-watched original series since the statistics report, received 76 million accounts.

Other viewership figures released by Netflix on Tuesday are listed below.

Netflix already messed up the stats earlier this month for some of its biggest titles at the end of last year. Bridgerton and The Midnight Sky were both released in December when Netflix mostly discussed the most-watched titles of the year, and they had the biggest audiences of the quarter, at least according to Netflix’s own cherries.

The Midnight Sky, a sci-fi / drama film directed by George Clooney, is projected by Netflix to reach 72 million accounts in the first four weeks, and Bridgerton, a soap opera set in Regency England from the producer Shonda Rhimes is expected to reach 63 million accounts.

On Tuesday, Netflix raised its expectations for viewers of We Can Be Heroes, a family film directed by Robert Rodriquez about the children of superheroes who save their parents (and the planet). After Netflix earlier predicted it would reach 44 million accounts in the first four weeks, the company said Tuesday it would reach 53 million.

But Netflix was very excited about the audience size for its latest season of The Crown. Netflix has said that the fourth season of its historical drama series about the British royal family has reached a new viewership highlight for the series, and that more than 100 million accounts have been watching the franchise since its first release. (For what it’s worth, Netflix said a year ago that The Crown’s third season was viewed by 21 million accounts and that 73 million accounts had watched the franchise up to that point.)

For years, Netflix was notorious for viewers. The creator of House of Cards, which put Netflix’s original content efforts on the map, once said that the company would not even share viewer statistics with it. But within the past two years, Netflix has struggled much more over the popularity of its programs and movies to help recruit talent. Netflix has also added a leading ranking to its service so that people can see what the most popular titles on Netflix are on a daily basis.

Netflix release figures require indemnity. First, they are not independently verified, nor are they detailed data from the company. Netflix is ​​in the unique position of being able to pick highlights, and we do not have much independent data to verify that. Traditional media companies, on the other hand, are monitored independently of their box office performance and are at the mercy of Nielsen ratings as the barometer for TV shows.

Speaking of Nielsen: Do not compare Netflix numbers with statistics like Nielsen ratings or box office figures. It’s tempting to compare how many people watched a Netflix show to one on regular TV, or to estimate how much money a big movie on Netflix would earn at the box office. But these criteria are not even comparable, because the methods behind them differ wildly.

Last year, Netflix switched to a new statistic for viewers. Netflix now counts a title as “watched” if you choose to watch it and only let it play for two minutes. With some programs or movies, you can turn it off before you even follow the title sequence – and it still counts as a view.

The following is the latest number of viewers for Netflix’s programs. All of the following figures are viewers in the first four weeks of releasing a title, except in cases where Netflix predicted the total number of viewers before the title reached the four-week mark (noted).

• Lupine – 70 million accounts projected.
• Holidate, a Christmas-themed rom-com movie – 68 million accounts.
• The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two, a sequel to Santa Claus adventure film – 61 million accounts.
• We Can Be Heroes, the action movie for children of superheroes – 53 million accounts projected.
• Over the Moon, an animated film about a girl traveling to a mythical land – 43 million accounts.
• Barbarians, a German historical action series – 37 million accounts.
• Just Another Christmas, Netflix’s first Portuguese-language holiday movie – 26 million accounts.
• Selena: The Series, a Spanish program about the famous singer – 25 million accounts.
• Sweet Home, a Korean language horror show – 22 million accounts.
• Alice in Borderland, a Japanese language science fiction thriller series – 18 million accounts.

Previous popularity rankings

How then can those titles match the titles that came before? Netflix’s previous viewer numbers for previous titles are listed below. Again, all of the following figures are for the first four weeks of releasing the titles using the two-minute benchmark, except where the Netflix projections were noted:

• Extraction, an action film starring Chris Hemsworth – 99 million accounts.
• Bird box, a post-apocalyptic film starring Sandra Bullock – more than 89 million accounts.
• Spenser Confidential, an action-comedy film starring Mark Wahlberg – 85 million accounts.
• 6 Underground, an explosion festival in Michael Bay starring Ryan Reynolds – 83 million accounts.
• The Old Guard, an action-thriller film – 78 million accounts.
• Enola Holmes, A Age of Detective – 76 million accounts are projected.
• Season 1 of The Witcher, a fantasy series based on an existing concession of books and video games – 76 million accounts.
• Project Power, a dark superhero movie – 75 million accounts.
• Murder Mystery, a comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston – 73 million accounts.
• The Midnight Sky, a sci-fi movie starring George Clooney – 72 million accounts projected.
• Kissing Booth 2, a teen rom-com movie – 66 million accounts.
• Season 4 of La Casa de Papel, or Money Heist, a Spanish language thriller series – projected for 65 million.
• The Irishman, a temporary epic about the Mafia, directed by Martin Scorsese – 64 million accounts.
• Tiger King, a viral documentation – 64 million households.
• Triple Frontier, an action / heist film starring Ben Affleck – 63 million accounts.
• Bridgerton, a soapy drama series by producer Shonda Rhimes – 63 million accounts projected.
• The Queen’s Gambit, a limited series on a chess miracle – 62 million accounts.
• The Wrong Missy, a romantic comedy film starring David Spade and Lauren Lapkus – 59 million accounts.
• The Platform, a Spanish sci-fi horror film – 56 million accounts.
• Season 2 of You, a 54 million-dollar psychological thriller series, based on the first week’s viewing since its December 26 release.
• American Murder: The Family Next Door, a true crime documentary – 52 million accounts are projected.
• Seasons 1 and 2 of Cobra Kai, a recharging series from The Karate Kid – 50 million accounts.
• The Perfect Date, a teen movie with romantic comedy – 48 million accounts.
• Season 1 of Ratched, a psychological thriller series – 48 million accounts.
• Season 2 of Umbrella Academy, a superhero series – 43 million accounts.
• Klaus, an animated holiday film nominated for an Oscar – 40 million accounts.
• Season 5 of Lucifer, a fantasy police procedure series – 38 million accounts.
• The Social Dilemma, a Documentary on Social Media Enterprises – 38 Million Accounts
• Season 1 of Love Is Blind, a series of competitions for appointments – 30 million.
• Season 3 of The Crown, a historical drama series – 21 million accounts (and Netflix said that 73 million accounts have watched The Crown since the series was launched).

Before this year, Netflix counted the views differently. Netflix will first start counting something as ‘watched’ before you go through 70% of the first episode of a series or the total duration of a movie. Netflix says the new two-minute threshold is more honest for all titles, regardless of their length. But it also means that the new statistics have increased the number of viewers by about one third compared to the old statistics.

These are previous viewer statistics under the old rules. These are figures that Netflix has released for the first four weeks of release (or where it is noticed).

• Stranger Things Season 3, a retro sci-fi series – 64 million households.
• Umbrella Academy, a superhero series – 45 million households.
• Tall Girl, a rom-com movie for teens – 41 million households.
• Sex Education, a British teen drama series – more than 40 million households.
• The Highwaymen, a period crime film starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson – more than 40 million households.
• Secret Obsession, a mystery about a young woman with memory loss – 40 million views.
• Our Planet, a BBC-style nature docu-series – 33 million households.
• Always Be My Maybe, a comedy film starring Ali Wong and Randall Park – 32 million households.
• Incredibly, a miniseries with real crime about the victims of a serial rapist and the detectives who hunt him down – 32 million bills.
• Dead to Me, a drama series starring Christina Applegate – 30 million households.
• Otherhood, a film about a group of mothers who visit their adult sons – 29 million households.
• When They See Us, a driven limited series by creator Ava DuVernay on the Central Park Five case – 25 million households.
• Bodyguard, a BBC World Productions series previously aired in the UK – 23 million households.
• FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, a documentary about the Fyre Fest debacle – more than 20 million homes.
• Elite, a Spanish series of high school boys – more than 20 million households.
• Baby, an Italian teenage drama series – more than 10 million homes.
• The Protector, Netflix’s first Turkish original series – more than 10 million households.