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How Many Minutes Did You Spend Streaming Shows in 2022? The Most Streamed Shows of 2022!

How Many Minutes Did You Spend Streaming Shows in 2022? The Most Streamed Shows of 2022. The List of the Most Streamed Shows of 2022 is Out. Did You Watch…

Most Streamed Shows of 2022

Most Streamed Shows of 2022

How Many Minutes Did You Spend Streaming Shows in 2022? The Most Streamed Shows of 2022.

The List of the Most Streamed Shows of 2022 is Out. Did You Watch Them?

Nielsen released the 2022 streaming numbers yesterday.

Surprise: "Stranger Things" was the most streamed TV show.

With 52 billion minutes.

BILLION WITH A B.

According to Variety.com, the Upside Down took the No. 1 position on Nielsen’s 2022 streaming chart.

Netflix’s blockbuster “Stranger Things,” led by the release of the fourth season, was the most-streamed TV show — and overall program — in the U.S. last year.

The sci-fi hit series ran up that hill to register a whopping 52 billion minutes streamed in 2022, the highest total since COVID-driven lockdowns drove audiences to watch 57.1 billion minutes of NBC’s “The Office” in 2020.

The dominance of original content like “Stranger Things” was underscored by the fact that there are only 34 episodes of the Duffer brothers’ series, compared with 192 episodes of “The Office.”

The second most-watched program overall in 2022 was “NCIS,”  whose 356 episodes on Netflix pulled in 38.1 billion minutes viewed. Which means your parents have been spending a lot of time in front of the TV.

(FYI: In 2021 on Netflix, CBS’s “Criminal Minds,” which ran from 2005-20, was the most-viewed show in the U.S. (with 33.9 billion minutes of watch time), per Nielsen.)

Dang, the Werther's Original set really likes their procedural dramas, right?

Coming in at the No. 3 spot on the ranking of most-streamed U.S. programs was “CoComelon,” which I have never heard of.

But it means that parents are using Netflix as a babysitter.

No judgement.

In total, Americans streamed more than 19.4 million years of content last year, up 27% about 15 million years in 2021, according to Nielsen.

What are the Top 10 Streamed Programs? Here's the list. And  don't feel too bad about it. What else is there to do except watch TV?

10. "Seinfeld": 19.3 billion

9. "Gilmore Girls": 20.8 billion

8. "Bluey": 21.1 billion

7. "Criminal Minds": 24.9 billion

6. "Grey's Anatomy": 26.8 billion

5. "Encanto": 27.4 billion

4. "Ozark": 31.3 billion

3. "Cocomelon": 37.8 billion

2. "NCIS": 38.1 billion

1. "Stranger Things": 52 billion

Lauren Beckham Falcone is the co-host of Bob & LBF in the Morning. Formerly an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald, she credits her current success as a pop culture commentator to watching too much TV as a kid and scouring the internet too much as an adult. LBF is a regular contributor to NECN and is an honorary board member at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. Lauren lives in Canton with her husband Dave and her daughter Lucy. Lauren writes about trending topics, New England destinations, and seasonal DIY.