'Ozark' finale delivers Netflix big streaming win

With its longtime stalwart Ozark topping streaming ratings by a very wide margin, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is playing the hits.

Netflix (NFLX) has streamed nearly 3 billion minutes of Ozark's final season since January. 

Nielsen's most recent weekly streaming ratings (for April 25-May 1) indicate that the series topped 2.575 billion minutes upon the arrival of its final episodes.

Ozark has streamed more than 1 billion minutes for the 18th week in a row since Nielsen began counting.  

Netflix's CoComelon, a long-running children's show, ranked runner-up with 767 million minutes of streaming.

Nine of the top 10 positions in the overall top 10 ratings went to Netflix.  

Grace and Frankie, another of its series wrapping up, was ranked third with 701 million minutes streamed, and Disney's Moon Knight ranked fourth with 681 million minutes after five episodes were released.

As a final note, here are the top 10 Netflix ( NFLX) shows: No. 5, NCIS (618 million minutes); No. 6, Selling Sunset (584 million); No. 7, Heartland (568 million); No. 8, Better Call Saul (568 million); No. 9, Criminal Minds (511 million); No. 10, Bridgerton (511 million).).

Netflix again dominated the acquired-series chart, led by CoComelon, NCIS, Heartland and Better Call Saul.

Ozark and Grace and Frankie topped the original-series chart, while Disney's Moon Knight came in third and Amazon's Outer Range came in eighth (343 million minutes streamed).

Again, Disney+ ( DIS ) dominated the movies chart. With 439 million and 364 million minutes streamed, respectively, 

Charm and Turning Red topped that list again; Disney also saw Moana at No. 5 with 158 million, and Luca at No. 7 with 139 million. The other six movies were on Netflix. 

(Nielsen streaming ratings incorporate viewing from five major providers: Amazon Prime Video ( AMZN ), Apple TV+ (AAPL ), Disney+ ( DIS ), Hulu ( DIS ) ( CMCSA ) and Netflix ( NFLX ).)

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