On Wednesday it surpasses Stranger Things 4 record with the most watched hours in a week

Wednesday It celebrates a new Netflix record, with 341.23 million viewing hours during its debut week. The live broadcast ratings for November 21-27 saw a superhero show topping the charts for an English-language series TV show. With those numbers, the Jenna Ortega-led series surpassed Stranger Things 4’s record — 335 million hours per week — which still holds the title of most-watched English-language Netflix series in its first 28 days. Wednesday It dropped on November 23rd on the platform, which means its records were calculated over a period of just five days.

The current world record holder is the South Korean star Squid gamewhich garnered 571.8 million watch hours in its prime week on Netflix. according NetflixAnd the Wednesday It was watched in over 50 million households, making its way into the top 10 of all 93 countries tracked by the streaming device – #1 in 83 countries. On the heels of that last week comes a German sci-fi mystery 1899 With 87.8 million hours in its second week, while Crown season 5 It fell to third place, amassing 42.3 million watch hours.

Ortega championship in the lead, Wednesday It follows the titular gothic child of the Addams family, who is enrolled at Nevermore Academy, where she can be with people of her kind: outcasts, freaks, and monsters. Between missions and classes as she masters psychic abilities, she suspects something is amiss in her new home – cooperating with her living hacked hand, preventing a brutal killing spree, and solving the murder mystery that affected her parents 25 years ago. They also stars in the eight-episode first season Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Station) and Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights) in recurring roles, as the father of Morticia and Gomez Addams, respectively.

When it comes to lifetime ratings for an English-language show, stranger things 4 Sits comfortably with 1.35 billion watch hoursfollowed by secondly by Dahmer – The Beast: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story at 856.2 million hours. The serial killer drama ousted the lead, Ewan Peters Bridgerton Season Two, with a total of 656.2 million hours of last watched hours. It’s also worth noting that the #1 English-language show, Stranger Things 4, had a two-part release (Volume 1 and Volume 2), which understandably contributed to its number one increase.

all episodes Wednesday Streaming now on Netflix.