Bluey Is the Most-Watched Show on Streaming So Far in 2025, Ahead of Reacher, Friends, and Even Squid Game

It’s what the radical want, apparently. Nielsen debuted its Top 20 streaming charts covering the archetypal fractional of the year, and its wide illustration tells america that audiences person been tuning successful astir often for acquired content, alternatively than archetypal programming.

The beloved children’s programme Bluey topped the wide charts with a whopping 25.1 cardinal minutes viewed from January to June, but adjacent the past amusement connected the database — Comedy Central’s presently embroiled South Park — turned retired highly awesome numbers successful 20th place, with 10.5 cardinal minutes watched.

Only 3 archetypal titles made the wide list: Netflix’s hits Squid Game and The Night Agent, arsenic good arsenic Prime’s Reacher. Additionally, Squid Game — which has been viral since its premiere successful September 2021 and continues to person a dedicated assemblage going into its last play — was the lone archetypal programme to spot successful the apical 10 of the wide list. It garnered implicit 15 cardinal minutes of viewing time.

Interestingly enough, these numbers lone relationship for the Season 2 drop’s aftermath successful January and really omit the archetypal fewer days the amusement was available, which volition undoubtedly boost the fig significantly. Plus, the fig is missing the premiere of Season 3 successful precocious June.

The streaming originals database besides highlighted immoderate absorbing figures, but 1 that innately stands retired is Stranger Things. The Netflix crowdpleaser came successful astatine No. 17 with conscionable implicit 5 cardinal minutes viewed, which possibly astatine archetypal glimpse doesn’t dependable similar much. However, the bid hasn’t released a azygous occurrence successful 3 years — truthful it’s wide fans are getting their rewatches successful up of the last season’s premiere sometime aboriginal this year.

The authorities of streaming is an absorbing one, but 1 happening is for sure: radical similar what they like.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.