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Netflix has had some pretty big hits over the years, but measuring its biggest hits has always been a struggle for observers. Thanks to the Netflix top 10s, we know Netflix’s biggest Original hits were within the first 91 days of release.
If you want to look back at those old viewership numbers (number of accounts watching at least 2 minutes of any title) that Netflix released, our guide is still live now, and some of the titles that featured on the top lists there still feature in Netflix’s top charts to this day.
Since mid-2021, Netflix has now transitioned to hours watched data. Every Tuesday, they provide us with stats on 40 titles in four separate categories, and when a title breaks into the all-time top 10, they provide an updated guide to those.
Per Netflix’s top 10 website (updated in June 2023 to now be 91 days instead of 28), here’s how their “all-time list” works:
“… we provide a list of the Top 10 most popular Netflix films and TV overall (branded Netflix in any country) in each of the four categories based on the views of each title in its first 91 days.”
Below, we’ve compiled a full list of all titles that have been in the top 10 since mid-2021, giving us a complete list of 28-day hourly stats that Netflix has released, and we’ve split it into each category.
Note: Last updated on January 16th, 2024, to add Society of the Snow to the Non-English movies top 10 as it hits #10. It will likely rise in the weeks to come and Fool Me Once and Berlin are also looking like they’ll hit the overall top 10s given their current trajectories.
Most Watched English Language Series of All Time
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New 91-Day List
Note: Listed by completed viewing equivalent
Wednesday (Season 1 – 2022)
Hours Watched: 1,718,800,000
Completed Viewing Equivalent: 252,100,000
Stranger Things (Season 4 – 2022)
Hours: 1,838,000,000
CVE: 140,700,000
DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Season 1 – 2022)
Hours: 1,031,100,000
CVE: 115,600,000
Bridgerton (Season 1 – 2022)
Hours: 929,300,000
CVE: 113,300,000
The Queen’s Gambit (Limited Series – 2020)
Hours: 746,400,000
CVE: 112,800,000
The Night Agent (Season 1 – 2023)
Hours: 803,200,000
CVE: 98,200,000
Stranger Things (Season 3 – 2019)
Hours: 716,100,000
CVE: 94,800,000
Bridgerton (Season 2 – 2022)
Hours: 797,200,000
CVE: 93,800,000
The Witcher (Season 1 – 2019)
Hours: 663,600,000
CVE: 83,000,000
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Limited Series – 2023)
Hours: 526,800,000
CVE: 81,300,000
Previously in the all-time top 10:
The Watcher (Season 1 – 2022)
Hours: 447,100,000
CVE: 79,600,000
Old 28-Day List
Stranger Things (Season 4) – 1,352,090,000 hours watched
Wednesday (Season 1) – 1,237,150,000 hours watched
DAHMER (Limited Series) – 856,220,000 hours watched
Bridgerton (Season 2) – 656,260,000 hours watched
The Night Agent (Season 1) – 626,990,000 hours watched
Bridgerton (Season 1) – 625,490,000 hours watched
Stranger Things (Season 3) – 582,100,000 hours watched
Lucifer (Season 5) – 569,480,000 hours watched
The Witcher (Season 1) – 541,010,000 hours watched
Inventing Anna (Limited Series) – 511,920,000 hours watched
Previously featured in all-time top 10:
Ginny & Georgia (Season 2) – 504,780,000 hours watched
13 Reasons Why (Season 2) – 496,120,000 hours watched
Ozark (Season 4) – 491,090,000 hours watched
13 Reasons Why (Season 1) – 475,570,000 hours watched
Maid (Limited Series) – 469,090,000 hours watched
You (Season 3) – 467,820,000 hours watched
You (Season 2) – 457,370,000 hours watched
Stranger Things (Season 2) – 427,440,000 hours watched
Sex Education (Season 3) – 418,760,000 hours watched
Ginny & Georgia (Season 1) – 381,000,000 hours watched
Most Watched English Language Movies of All Time
Red Notice – Picture: Netflix
New 91-Day List
Red Notice (2021)
Hours Viewed: 454,200,000
Completed Viewing Equivalent: 230,900,000
Don’t Look Up (2021)
Hours: 408,600,000
CVE: 171,400,000
The Adam Project (2022)
Hours: 281,000,000
CVE: 157,600,000
Bird Box (2018)
Hours: 325,300,000
CVE: 157,400,000
The Gray Man (2022)
Hours: 299,500,000
CVE: 139,300,000
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
Hours: 231,200,000
CVE: 137,300,000
The Mother (2023)
Hours: 265,900,000
CVE: 136,400,000
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Hours: 320,300,000
CVE: 136,300,000
Extraction (2020)
Hours: 266,900,000
CVE: 135,700,000
Extraction 2 (2023)
Hours: 278,700,000
CVE: 134,900,000
Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:
Spenser Confidential (2020)
Hours: 238,900,000
CVE: 129,100,000
Old 28-Day List
Red Notice – 364,020,000 hours watched
Don’t Look Up – 359,790,000 hours watched
Bird Box – 282,020,000 hours watched
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – 279,740,000 hours watched
The Gray Man – 253,870,000 hours watched
The Mother – 234,070,000 hours watched
The Adam Project – 233,160,000 hours watched
Extraction – 231,340,000 hours watched
Purple Hearts – 228,690,000 hours watched
The Unforgivable – 214,700,000 hours watched
Previously featured in all-time top 10:
The Irishman – 214,570,000 hours watched
The Kissing Booth 2 – 209,250,000 hours watched
6 Underground – 205,470,000 hours watched
Spenser Confidential – 197,320,000 hours watched
Enola Holmes – 189,900,000 hours watched
Army of the Dead – 186,540,000 hours watched
The Old Guard – 185,710,000 hours watched
Murder Mystery – 169,590,000 hours watched
Most Watched Non-English Language Series of All Time
Squid Game – Picture: Netflix
New 91-Day List
Squid Game (Season 1 – 2021)
Hours Viewed: 2,205,200,000
Completed Viewing Equivalent: 265200000
Money Heist (Part 4 – 2020)
Hours: 710,200,000
CVE: 106,000,000
Lupin (Part 1 – 2021)
Hours: 396,300,000
CVE: 99,500,000
Money Heist (Part 5 – 2021)
Hours: 900,700,000
CVE: 99,200,000
Money Heist (Part 3 – 2019)
Hours: 519,800,000
CVE: 80,000,000
Lupin (Part 2 – 2021)
Hours: 258,900,000
CVE: 68,400,000
Who Killed Sara? (Season 1 – 2021)
Hours: 392,400,000
CVE: 58,400,000
All of Us Are Dead (Season 1 – 2022)
Hours: 679,300,000
CVE: 55,500,000
Dear Child (Limited Series – 2023)
Hours: 244,100,000
CVE: 50,700,000
Elite (Season 3 – 2020)
Hours: 334,800,000
CVE: 50,000,000
Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:
Elite (Season 4 – 2021)
Hours: 302,200,000
CVE: 46,300,000
Old 28-Day List
Squid Game (Season 1) – 1,650,450,000 hours watched
Money Heist (Part 5) – 792,230,000 hours watched
Money Heist (Part 4) – 619,010,000 hours watched
All of Us Are Dead (Season 1) – 560,780,000 hours watched
The Glory (Season 1) – 436,890,000 hours watched
Money Heist (Part 3) – 426,400,000 hours watched
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Season 1) – 402,470,000 hours watched
Café con aroma de mujer (Season 1) – 326,910,000 hours watched
Lupin (Part 1) – 316,830,000 hours watched
Elite (Season 3) – 275,300,000 hours watched
Previously featured in all-time top 10:
Who Killed Sara? (Season 1) – 266,430,000 hours watched
Money Heist (Part 5) – 395,130,000 hours watched
Elite (Season 4) – 257,090,000 hours watched
Lupin (Part 2) – 214,070,000 hours watched
Dark Desire (Season 1) – 213,790,000 hours watched
Most Watched Non-English Language Movies of All Time
Troll – Picture: Netflix
New 91-Day List
Troll (2022)
Hours Watched: 178,600,000
Completed Viewing Equivalent: 103,000,000
Nowhere (2023)
Hours: 130,500,000
CVE: 71,800,000
The Platform (2020)
Hours: 129,700,000
CVE: 82,800,000
Through My Window (2022)
Hours: 116,000,000
CVE: 61,100,000
AKA (2023)
Hours: 125,900,000
CVE: 60,900,000
Blood Red Sky (2021)
Hours: 124,800,000
CVE: 60,900,000
My Name Is Vendetta (2022)
Hours: 86,500,000
CVE: 56,400,000
Black Crab (2022)
Hours: 103,300,000
CVE: 53,900,000
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Hours: 129,400,000
CVE: 52,100,000
Society of the Snow (2024)*
Hours: 124,100,000
CVE: 51,000,000
Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:
Below Zero (2021)
Hours: 86,700,000
CVE: 48,600,000
Loving Adults (2022)
Hours: 83,600,000
CVE: 47,300,000
Old 28-Day List
Troll (Norwegian) – 155,560,000 hours watched
Blood Red Sky (German) – 110,520,000 hours watched
AKA (French) – 110,410,000 hours watched
The Platform (Spanish) – 108,090,000 hours watched
All Quiet on the Western Front (German) – 101,360,000 hours watched
Black Crab (Swedish) – 94,130,000 hours watched
Through My Window (Spanish) – 92,440,000 hours watched
Hunger (Thai) – 80,910,000 hours watched
The Takedown (French) – 78,630,000 hours watched
Below Zero (Spanish) – 78,300,000 hours watched
Previously featured in all-time top 10:
My Name Is Vendetta (Italian) – 68,730,000 hours watched
Loving Adults (Danish) – 67,340,000 hours watched
Rogue City (French) – 66,600,000 hours watched
Carter (Korean) – 65,390,000 hours watched
The Forgotten Battle (Dutch) – 60,930,000 hours watched
Restless (French) – 59,060,000 hours watched
Lost Bullet (French) – 58,320,000 hours watched
Spoiled Brats (French) – 56,900,000 hours watched
#Alive (Korean) – 54,620,000 hours watched
Space Sweepers (Korean) – 53,340,000 hours watched
The Last Mercenary (French) – 52,110,000 hours watched
Just Another Christmas (Brazillian) – 48,430,000 hours watched
For more on the Netflix top 10s and to search all the titles with hourly data stats released, check out our search tool here.
This post will be updated over time to reflect additions to the top 10s. What’s been your favorite movie or series listed above? Let us know in the comments below.