The Year of ‘Bluey’: Kids’ Favorite Dominates 2024 Year-End Streaming Chart
Bluey was at the forefront of pop culture discourse for several weeks in the spring, as plenty of adult critics discussed how much the animated show meant to them. Its target audience probably didn’t read much of that discourse — kids under 10 aren’t big consumers of that sort of thing — but they (and their parents) kept watching week after week.
The series never fell off Nielsen’s top 10 streaming charts in 2024 — it’s been a fixture dating back to fall 2022, in fact — and ends the year as, by far, the most streamed show in the United States in terms of total viewing time. Nielsen says viewers watched 55.62 billion minutes of Bluey on Disney+ from Jan. 1-Dec. 29 (the end of Nielsen’s reporting for 2024), coming within striking distance of the all-time yearly record of 57.7 billion minutes that Suits set in 2023.
As was the case in 2023, the top 10 titles in Nielsen’s year-end rankings for 2024 are all library series. Grey’s Anatomy finished second with 47.85 billion minutes on Netflix and Hulu — the equivalent of watching the complete series to date (438 episodes) about 2.6 million times. Eight of the top 10 are long-running network staples, ranging from Bob’s Burgers (fourth place with 36.8 billion minutes on Hulu) to Law & Order: SVU (eighth, 28.72 billion on Peacock and Hulu).
Nielsen also notes that outside its top 10, acquired series that predate the streaming era are still big draws: Little House on the Prairie (1974-83) had more than 13 billion minutes of viewing on Peacock, and Gunsmoke (1955-75) amassed 10 billion minutes on Peacock and Paramount+.
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Bridgerton was the top original series of 2024 by a pretty wide margin: Its 21.42 billion minutes of viewing — concentrated around the release of season three in May and June — was about 5 billion more than Love Is Blind (16.45 billion), which released two seasons last year. Amazon’s Prime Video had three original shows in the top 10 with The Boys (13.58 billion minutes), Fallout (11.95 billion) — which was the top new series — and Reacher (10.57 billion). Futurama also made the top 10 originals for Hulu, but it’s likely that most of its 11.75 billion minutes of watch time came from its pre-streaming revival library.
Moana (13.03 billion minutes on Disney+) was once again the most streamed movie in the United States, with a top 10 dominated by animated film — Prime Video’s holiday action-comedy Red One is the only live-action title to make the list.
