Well, we can’t do
box office numbers. So we’re doing this now.
As reported by
Deadline, Soul, the latest Pixar
animated film, absolutely rocked the Nielsen weekly streaming charts for the
last week of December. The film, about a music teacher and jazz artist
separated from his body, was released on Disney Plus as a substitute for a wide
theatrical release, a choice made due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
During that first week, it was streamed for a grand total of 1.6669 billion minutes. This translates into roughly
500 million views of the film, though that’s assuming everyone who streamed
some of it streamed all of it, which is likely not the case.
That total of
roughly 1.7 billion beat out the most-streamed title on Nielsen’s charts, which
is almost always The Office. During that
week, the end of the show’s long tenure on Netflix, it ranked up 1.435 billion.
It’ll be moving to Peacock soon, as the streaming service’s ads will gladly
tell you.
https://gizmodo.com/soul-feels-like-pixars-first-black-movie-made-with-whit-1845956107
The Nielsen
streaming charts are a new-ish way to keep track of media consumption habits,
and it’s interesting to see that big event releases are making an impact. As
for the other big Christmas release, Wonder
Woman 1984, Nielsen has not yet added HBO Max to its chart system. So,
uh, we don’t know.
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