Ozark, whose fourth season just premiered its first set of episodes on Netflix, with the fourth-highest weekly total ever to repeat at the top of Nielsen's weekly streaming rankings.
The murder drama series received about 4.1 billion minutes of streaming throughout its 37 episodes during the week of January 24 to 30. Only Tiger King has a higher total, with debut weeks of 5.3 billion and 4.4 billion minutes in March 2020. Ozark picked up 5.2 billion minutes at the same early-Covid period when overall streaming was surging owing to pandemic lockdowns.
According to Nielsen, over 60% of Ozark viewers were between the ages of 35 and 64, with the remaining 40% evenly divided between 18-34 and 65 and older. The second installment of Ozark's fourth season will broadcast on April 29.
Disney had a solid week, with Encanto's incredible hold extending and flagship Star Wars spinoff The Book of Boba Fett going to No. 4.
Encanto, which debuted solely in cinemas last Thanksgiving before making its way to Disney+ a month later, gathered 1.361 billion viewing minutes. That was a mere 10% dip from the 1.511 billion it had in the previous week. Nielsen estimated that 40% of its viewers were aged 2 to 11 and 25% were Hispanic.
With the publication of a fifth episode, Boba Fett saw a 28 percent increase in overall viewing time, with 744 million minutes. The most recent Nielsen-tracked episode has a strong connection to Disney+ mainstay The Mandalorian and was helmed by Bryce Dallas Howard, which helped draw more casual viewers.
Elsewhere on the chart, Netflix's zombie-in-high-school series All of Us Are Dead struck more Korean gold. With 448 million viewing minutes, the show finished ninth with a young skew similar of Squid Game.
