Netflix Just Changed Its Top 10 Metrics, and ‘Wednesday’ Is Now Bigger Than ‘Stranger Things’

Every month it seems like a new film or TV show crashes its way into Netflix’s lists of their most popular titles.

First unveiled in June 2021, the streamer’s four Top 10 lists — for English TV, English Film, non-English TV, and non-English Film — are getting a shake-up, and the changes mean that there’s a new English language series that will take the crown as the streamer’s most popular show.“Wednesday” has now usurped “Stranger Things” Season 4 as the most viewed English-language series on Netflix.

That’s because under a new model for tracking the Top 10, the ranking will now be determined by the number of times a series or movie is viewed rather than its raw number of hours.Also under the new system, titles will now be tracked over the course of their first 91 days on the streamer, rather than the first 28 days.

If that number sounds a little arbitrary,…

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