Why Lucifer has finally been the most watched series of 2021 and not The Squid Game

Now that we have left 2021 behind, we can already know which series and movies have been the most viewed, both in streaming and on television and in cinemas. This has been the race on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max and Disney +.

There is nothing we like more than comparisons, and even more so if they allow us to know which series has been the most watched in 2021, the second year of the pandemic where many of us had to stay at home longer than usual.

If we had to bet, I’m sure more than one did it for The Squid Game. And it would be logical, since if you remember it was the 2021 series, with the best premiere in Netflix history. The success was such that in Korea they have already confirmed that there will be season 2 and season 3.

Yes, you would lose. Because, whims of fate, the most watched series in 2021 was none other than Lucifer, an original series from FOX that, after canceling it, ended up falling to Netflix, who decided to continue it for a few more seasons.

The 93 total episodes of the series obtained more than 18,300 million minutes of streaming views during the year, according to the year-end report of the measurement company Nielsen.

that places her far ahead of the 16.4 billion of The Squid Game, but the Korean phenomenon only had nine episodes on Netflix in 2021. But how is this possible? The answer is that the measurement takes into account the minutes watched, and not the number of people who saw it.

In the movies table, the Italian production Luca recorded a landslide victory, amassing some 10.6 billion minutes of viewing. This compelling and well-reviewed Pixar movie didn’t open in theaters last summer, but directly on Disney+.

That distribution strategy, which undoubtedly boosted the streaming figures, has been supported thanks to these numbers.. Disney+ has 11 of the 15 most-watched movies on Streaming in 2021, which is quite an achievement for the Mickey Mouse-owned app.

Netflix, despite spending heavily on original movies and starting to market the fact that it releases at least one major movie every week, he finished with just three of the top 15 titles.

As for Amazon, whose Prime Video service also poured considerable sums of money into movies, it only landed one title on the movies list, Tomorrow’s War. Notably, out of 45 total Nielsen ranking spots, Prime Video only held two.