Most people watching Peacock during the week of July 22-28 were watching the Olympics — but two other shows on the NBCUniversal streamer also had a pretty good week.

The sandal drama Those who are about to die made it into the top 10 original series of the week (premiered July 18), likely thanks to heavy advertising during NBCUniversal’s Olympic broadcasts. The series reached 399 million minutes of viewing time that week.

Love Island remained strong the week after its season finale on July 21. Although ratings dropped after two consecutive weeks of over a billion minutes, the series’ 724 million minutes of viewership (including previous seasons on Hulu and Netflix) is very strong for an unscripted series that showed no new episodes during the week measured.

The Olympics were without question the biggest streaming event of the week, with 4.5 billion minutes of viewership on Peacock and NBCU’s other digital platforms in the first three days of the Games. However, they are not included in Nielsen’s weekly rankings, which exclude live sports. The top title of the week, outside the Paris division, was Ghostbusters: The Ice Cold Empire (1.41 billion minutes), which had its streaming premiere on Netflix on July 22.

Four series also exceeded the billion-minute mark – including three that had already achieved this a week earlier. Bluish (1.06 billion minutes), Cobra Kai (1.05 billion) and House of the Dragon (1.04 billion). Family man (1.03 billion) also joined the club, achieving Hulu’s best figure yet.

Two more original series are in the top 10 for the first time: Apple TV+’s For lack of evidence (387 million minutes) in the week the finale aired, and Netflix’s three-part documentary series Dirty Pop: The Boyband Fraud (369 million). In the cinema charts, Netflix Hillbilly Elegy remained in the top 10 with 314 million minutes of viewing time, but lost 43 percent of popularity a week after the candidate, JD Vance, was announced as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Nielsen’s streaming ratings reflect only viewing on TVs, not minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. Ratings only take into account U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles from July 22-28, 2024 are below.

In total

1. Ghostbusters: The Ice Cold Empire (Netflix), 1.41 billion minutes viewed
2. Bluish (Disney+), 1.06 billion
3. Cobra Kai (Netflix), 1.05 billion
4. House of the Dragon (Maximum), 1.04 billion
5. Family man (Hulu), 1.03 billion
6. Grey’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 923 million
7. NCIS: Secret Service Stories (Netflix/Paramount+), 819 million
8. Everything American (Netflix), 799 million
9. Dexter (Netflix/Paramount+), 798 million
10. Criminal Minds (Hulu/Paramount+), 750 million

In-house productions

1. Cobra Kai1.05 billion minutes
2. The boys (Prime Video), 738 million
3. Love Island (Hulu/Netflix/Peacock), 724 million
4. The bear (Hulu), 427 million
5. Devilish (Netflix/Paramount+), 406 million
6. Those who are about to die (peacock), 399 million
7. For lack of evidence (Apple TV+), 387 million
8. Vikings: Valhalla (Netflix), 381 million
9. Dirty Pop: The Boyband Fraud (Netflix), 369 million
10. Bridgerton (Netflix), 341 million

Acquired series

1. Bluish1.06 billion minutes
2. House of the Dragon1.04 billion
3. Family man1.03 billion
4. Grey’s Anatomy923 million
5. NCIS: Secret Service Stories819 million
6. Everything American799 million
7. Dexter798 million
8. Criminal Minds750 million
9. SpongeBob SquarePants (Paramount+/Prime Video), 723 million
10. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 708 million

Films

1. Ghostbusters: The Ice Cold Empire1.41 billion minutes
2. Trolls join forces (Netflix), 732 million
3. Land of Evil (Netflix), 664 million
4. Find me falling (Netflix), 416 million
5. Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix), 314 million
6. Descendants – The Rise of Red (Disney+), 260 million
7. My Spy: The Eternal City (Prime Video), 251 million
8. Vaiana – The wonderful world of love (Disney+), 243 million
9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 (Paramount+), 227 million
10. IF (Paramount+), 215 million