High Ratings For Chris Rock’s Live Netflix Stand-Up Special

Chris Rock’s live stand-up special on Netflix didn’t break through in the streamer’s global rankings, but it definitely caught on with U.S. viewers. In the nine days after its March 4 release, the Chris Rock: Selective Outrage racked up almost 1.22 billion minutes of viewing, including 798 million for the week of March 6-12. The 1.22 billion minutes equates to about 20.3 million full runs of the hourlong special.

For just the March 6-12 frame, Nielsen’s tally of 798 million minutes for Selective Outrage works out to 13.3 million hours — about three fourths of the 17.79 million hours worldwide the special recorded in Netflix’s internal measurements. (Nielsen and Netflix use different methodologies to compute their watch-time stats, but it’s safe to say the bulk of the special’s viewing came from the United States.) Nielsen also says that Selective Outrage is the most watched stand-up special (over a single week) since it began tracking streaming content in 2017.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter