After reporting pointless day 1 numbers for the primary episode of The Acolyte (as a result of they by no means did so for something earlier than), Disney launched 5-day numbers final night time, identical to they did for Ahsoka. And the primary episode of The Acolyte had 11.1 million views worldwide, in response to Disney. Which makes it the second least watched Star Wars sequence premiere on Disney+. Click through for more!
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The Disney PR machine is in excessive gear. The Acolyte is probably the most watched Disney+ sequence premiere in all of 2024 is the headline of selection by Disney and numerous media shops (when X-Males ’97 did not enter the Nielsen Charts in any respect and the one different sequence of be aware launched in 2024 is “Echo” which crashed and burned just like the Hindenburg), it has “astounding” 4.8 million views (for its first episode) on day 1… which meant precisely nothing as a result of Disney by no means launched first day numbers for something ever earlier than.
However now they did really launch 5-day numbers. And issues look a lot much less improbable. In response to Disney the primary episode (so excluding the second that additionally was launched) had 11.1 million views, the place Disney makes use of the identical formulation I and others have used for a very long time: they divide viewing minutes by episode runtime. So these are in fact simply theoretical views, however it’s a determine that makes issues comparable and accounts for various runtimes.
To place these 11.1 million views in perspective: Ahsoka had 14 million views after 5 days with its first episode, in response to Disney. Which implies The Acolyte had 21% much less viewers.
Now Nielsen do have a unique methodology, but when we use this, what might the Nielsen numbers appear like, when they’re launched in about 4 weeks from now?
With The Acolyte trailing Ahsoka by approx. 21% Nielsen may report viewing minutes within the vary of 520 million minutes, perhaps somewhat extra, perhaps rather less. However these 520 million minutes would in fact be for each episodes launched on the identical day.
And this is able to imply, if we use Nielsen, that The Acolyte had about 6.8 million views as per Nielsen. Now Nielsen shouldn’t be the complete image, it’s US solely and it doesn’t embody individuals who watch the reveals on PCs or telephones, however not less than all of the Nielsen knowledge is comparable since their methodology for all of the reveals is similar, so you’ll be able to evaluate this quantity with all the opposite Star Wars reveals.
Listed here are the sequence/season premiere viewing figures for all of the Star Wars dwell motion reveals:
Mando S3: 23.51 million views
Obi-Wan Kenobi: 11.27 million views
E-book of Boba Fett: 10.33 million views
Ahsoka: 8.55 million views
Andor: 5.42 million views
The Acolyte: 6.8 million views (estimate)
It must be talked about that the reveals that launched multiple episode within the first week (Kenobi, Ahsoka and Andor) elevated the variety of views in subsequent weeks, indicating that perhaps not all individuals watched all launched episodes without delay however caught up later.
Nonetheless, this is able to make The Acolyte probably not a rankings hit and would put it a lot nearer to Andor than Ahsoka territory, and Ahsoka was already simply “okay”, completely nice, however particularly because the season progressed if was far faraway from The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and even E-book of Boba Fett numbers (thanks to reworking into The Mandalorian season 2.5) and the Ahsoka finale carried out barely worse even than Andor’s.
We must look ahead to the precise Nielsen numbers, but when Disney’s personal numbers straight translate to comparable Nielsen numbers The Acolyte must be off to a fairly mediocre begin on the Nielsen Charts. After which the massive query is what follow-up numbers within the subsequent weeks would appear like. The allegedly “controversial” third episode releases later at this time, in the midst of the night time in Europe. I’ll inform you all about it tomorrow!
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