With 52 billion watch minutes, stranger things of Netflix Most watched TV series in the USA above all 2022 According to Nielsen data. Encanto, on the other hand, ranks first among streaming movies with 27 billion minutes of views.
Read below for the top 15 most-watched series on streaming platforms, including the original and acquired content subcategory, and the most streamed movies.
Most watched TV series in 2022
- Stranger Things (Netflix) – 52 billion minutes
- NCIS (Netflix) – 38.1 billion minutes
- CoComelon (Netflix) – 37.8 billion minutes
- Ozark (Netflix) – 31.3 billion minutes
- Encanto (Disney+) – 27.4 billion minutes
- Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix) – 26.8 billion minutes
- Criminal Minds (Miscellaneous) – 24.9 billion minutes
- Bluey (Disney+) – 21.1 billion minutes
- Gilmore Girls (Netflix) – 20.8 billion minutes
- Seinfeld (Netflix) – 19.3 billion minutes
- Supernatural (Netflix) – 18.8 billion minutes
- Wednesday (Netflix) – 18.6 billion minutes
- Heartland (Netflix) – 18 billion minutes
- Cobra Kai (Netflix) – 16.7 billion minutes
- The Simpsons (Disney+) – 15.9 billion minutes
Most Watched TV Shows in 2022 (Originals)
- Stranger Things (Netflix) – 52 billion minutes
- Ozark (Netflix) – 31.3 billion minutes
- Wednesday (Netflix) – 18.6 billion minutes
- Cobra Kai (Netflix) – 16.7 billion minutes
- Bridgerton (Netflix) – 14 billion minutes
- Virgin River (Netflix) – 13.6 billion minutes
- Dahmer (Netflix) – 13.4 billion minutes
- Love Is Blind (Netflix) – 13.1 billion minutes
- Inventing Anna (Netflix) – 12.9 billion minutes
- The Crown (Netflix) – 12.7 billion minutes
- The Boys (Prime Video) – 10.6 billion minutes
- Great British Baking Show (Netflix) – 10.6 billion minutes
- Umbrella Academy (Netflix) – 10.5 billion minutes
- The Last Kingdom (Netflix) – 10.4 billion minutes
- Rings of Power (Prime Video) – 9.4 billion minutes
Most watched movies
- Encanto (Disney+) – 27.4 billion minutes
- Red (Disney+) – 11.4 billion minutes
- Sing 2 (Netflix) – 11.3 billion minutes
- Moana (Disney+) – 8.6 billion minutes
- Project Man (Netflix) – 6.1 billion minutes
- Hocus Pocus 2 (Disney+) – 5.7 billion minutes
- Don’t Look Up (Netflix) – 5.1 billion minutes
- Frozen (Disney+) – 5.1 billion minutes
- Luke (Disney+) – 4.97 billion minutes
- Gray Man (Netflix) – 4.97 billion minutes
- Zootopia (Disney+) – 4.4 billion minutes
- Coco (Disney+) – 4.2 billion minutes
- Eternals (Disney+) – 4.2 billion minutes
- Frozen II (Disney+) – 4.2 billion minutes
- Uncharted (Netflix) – 4.2 billion minutes
Stranger Things is not only a first, but also broke the record of 51.1 billion minutes watched by The Office in 2020, thanks to the pandemic. Among the original content, Ozarks Despite being aired in late November, it ranks second with 31.3 billion minutes watched, and Wednesday is third with 18.6 billion minutes.
If Netflix dominates when it comes to series, Disney+ has had more success when it comes to movies. Especially bewitched It has more than double the views of Red (also Disney+) and Sing 2 on Netflix.