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Stranger Things’ Season 5 Debuts With 59.6M Views as U.S. No. 1 Spot Goes to Sean Combs Doc

Netflix’s three-part rollout now moves to a Dec. 25 second batch and a New Year finale, extending the show’s holiday momentum.

Overview

  • Volume 1 logged about 59.6 million views in five days, marking Netflix’s biggest English‑language premiere week of 2025, according to the streamer.
  • All five seasons re-entered Netflix’s global Top 10 simultaneously for the first time, underscoring the franchise’s deep library pull.
  • Third‑party panel data from Samba TV showed roughly 3.2 million U.S. households watched Episode 1 over Thanksgiving, with 39% binging all available episodes within 48 hours.
  • Industry comparisons place the launch just below recent Squid Game season debuts, and analysts note Netflix’s shift from hours‑viewed to views complicates direct season‑to‑season comparisons.
  • Within a week of release, the series fell to No. 2 on Netflix’s U.S. most‑popular list, overtaken by the four‑part documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning.