‘Cobra Kai’ Edges ‘Encanto’ & ‘Don’t Look Up’ To Win New Year’s Week Streaming Chase
deadline.comRiding its Season 4 premiere, Karate Kid reprise Cobra Kai topped Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of December 27 to January 2.With more than 2.4 billion minutes of viewing, the series outdistanced two feature films that both cracked the 2-billion-minute mark during New Year’s week.
Encanto, which became accessible to all Disney+ subscribers just 30 days after its Thanksgiving debut in theaters, finished No.
2 with 2.2 billion, while Netflix’s Don’t Look Up captured about 2 billion, good for third place.Cobra Kai‘s latest batch of 10 original episodes arrived in the same release slot as Season 3 a year ago, with the show generating 2.6 billion minutes of streaming.
The series originated as YouTube original, migrating to Netflix in 2020, ahead of YouTube’s strategic pivot back to its roots in creator-driven programming.Encanto, which has grossed almost $230 billion at the worldwide box office, had its first full week on Disney+ after starting to stream on December 24.
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