Despite releasing only four of its nine episodes in January, Marvel Studios' debut Disney+ series WandaVision reportedly dominated the American streaming scene last month, with viewership numbers topping even those of Netflix's record-breaking series Bridgerton.
Per Variety's Variety Intelligence Platform, data provided by the television analytics provider TVision finds that across all measured platforms for January 2021, Disney+'s WandaVision Season 1 had the highest viewership numbers, with Netflix's Bridgerton Season 1 coming in at second place. This is of note, as in the four weeks following its full-season premiere on Dec. 25, 2020, Bridgerton became Netflix's biggest series ever, being watched in 82 million households as of Jan. 27.
TVision keeps track of all major SVODs and AVOD's, determining viewership numbers by counting viewers who have watched a given show or movie "for at least two minutes within a session of watching content for at least five minutes." With that in mind, WandaVision came in with an indexed audience-size figure of 8,127 for the month of January. Meanwhile, Bridgerton had a figure of 6,808.
In January, the Disney+ movie Soul came in at third place (6,537), followed by Netflix's Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Season 1 (4,954), Netflix's History of Swear Words Season 1 (3,012), Netflix's Cobra Kai Season 3 (2,997), Disney+'s Frozen 2 (2,899), HBO Max's Wonder Woman 1984 (2,883), Netflix's Lupin Season 1 (2,630) and Netflix's Cocomelon Season 1 (2,172).
Back in December, Soul took the number one spot with a whopping 13,408 -- and was followed by The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (Netflix), Wonder Woman 1984, The Prom (Netflix), The Mandalorian Season 2 (Disney+), Godmothered (Disney+), Bridgerton Season 1, Frozen 2, The Queen's Gambit Season 1 (Netflix) and Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Netflix), in that order.
WandaVision premiered on Disney+ on Jan. 15, with Season 1 currently slated to conclude with Episode 9 on March 5. Marvel Studios' second Disney+ series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, will premiere two weeks later on March 19. Loki will then hit the platform on June 11. Numerous other Disney+ original series from Marvel Studios are currently in the works, though lack official premiere dates.
Written by Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman, WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as Vision, Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Kathryn Hahn as Agnes. New episodes air Fridays on Disney+.
Source: Variety