A 19-month wait between seasons of Bridgerton seemingly did little to dissipate the ardor for the Netflix series.
Season four of the period drama premiered at No. 1 overall on the Nielsen streaming charts for Jan. 26-Feb. 1, scoring 3.03 billion minutes of viewing for the week. That’s 10 percent higher than the opening week of season three in May 2024; like the current season, that one was split into two parts, premiering four weeks apart.
About 2.24 billion minutes — 74 percent of Bridgerton’s total for the week total — were devoted to the four new episodes that premiered Jan. 29, Nielsen says, with the remainder coming from previous seasons. The tally for the new episodes alone would have easily led the week.
Stranger Things held onto second place with 1.3 billion minutes of watch time, with the Netflix series showing a good amount of staying power a month after its series finale. The Pitt (1.21 billion minutes) hit a series high for the fourth straight week on HBO Max.
Prime Video’s Fallout had its best week since the premiere of season two, notching 1.1 billion minutes a week before its season finale. It grew by 35 percent week to week. Marvel’s Wonder Man premiered to 618 million minutes of watch time on Disney+.
Prime Video led the movie charts with The Wrecking Crew, an action comedy starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. It had 1.26 billion minutes of viewing, good for third place overall and more than double the amount for the second-place film (The Rip at 513 million minutes).
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences. The top streaming titles for Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2026, are below.
