While CBS, NBC, Fox, FX and other traditional networks are thrilled to share viewing figures when one of their shows performs well, the streaming services keep their cards much closer to the vest. That was the case once again in 2016, but last week, media insight and measurement company SymphonyAM, using independent data, put together a list of the 25 most-watched streaming shows of last year.
As Newsweek explains, SymphonyAM uses a metric called “L35” to determine the popularity of a show, which is the engagement that those shows attract on their streaming platform of choice in the first 35 days of availability.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Netflix dominated the list. 21 of the 25 shows are Netflix originals, while Hulu and
Without further ado, here are the top 25 streaming-only TV shows of 2016 according to SymphonyAM’s L35 metric (and originally shared by Newsweek at the beginning of January):
- Orange Is the New Black: Season 4 — 23 million viewers
- Stranger Things — 21.7 million viewers
- Fuller House — 21.5 million viewers
- Marvel’s Luke Cage — 12.1 million viewers
- Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 2 — 11.6 million viewers
- House of Cards: Season 4 — 8.8 million viewers
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 2 — 8.4 million viewers
- The Ranch — 5.8 million viewers
- 11.22.63 — 5.3 million viewers
- Amanda Knox — 4.96 million viewers
- The Get Down — 4.91 million viewers
- Gracie and Frankie: Season 2 — 4.5 million viewers
- Love — 4 million viewers
- Narcos: Season 2 — 3.8 million viewers
- Black Mirror: Season 3 — 3.7 million viewers
- The Crown — 3.5 million viewers
- Bloodline: Season 2 — 3.3 million viewers
- Longmire: Season 5 — 3.2 million viewers
- Chelsea Does — 2.7 million viewers
- The Path — 2.06 million viewers
- Flaked — 2.04 million viewers
- Bojack Horseman: Season 3 — 2 million viewers
- Marco Polo: Season 2 — 1.9 million viewers
- Goliath — 1.8 million viewers
- Bosch: Season 2 — 1.6 million viewers
