Love Island USA’s eighth season reached its strongest viewership performance in the show’s history during the final week leading up to the season conclusion. The Peacock series accumulated just under 2 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of July 6-12, representing a slight increase from its previous record set two weeks prior. The series claimed the top position on the overall streaming chart for the fourth time across its six-week run of new episodes this season, accumulating approximately 10.73 billion total viewing minutes—a roughly 23 percent increase compared to the prior season’s performance.
Peacock secured multiple entries in the weekly top 10 original series rankings. The Five Star Weekend, which debuted July 9, generated 629 million viewing minutes to rank fifth among original series. The network has already greenlit a second season of the new series. Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reboot finished second among original series with 926 million viewing minutes in its opening week, with a second season currently in production. House of the Dragon, HBO Max’s Game of Thrones prequel series, logged 969 million viewing minutes at the midway point of its third season, marking its strongest performance of the year and leading the acquired series category.
Other notable performers included Dutton Ranch on Paramount+, which maintained top 10 status with 509 million viewing minutes a week after its season finale, and Silo on Apple TV+, which re-entered the charts with 385 million minutes following its third season premiere. Disney+ saw Bluey retain audience engagement with its full series attracting 872 million viewing minutes, while a new Bluey Compilations offering featuring 45-minute thematic blocks generated an additional 641 million minutes across nine releases.
Project Hail Mary dominated the movie charts for a second consecutive week on Prime Video with 922 million viewing minutes, representing a week-to-week increase of approximately 7 percent. Nielsen’s measurements account for viewing on television sets within the United States only and exclude consumption on computers and mobile devices.
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