Charts: Streaming film and TV rankings
Luminate uses a viewership modeling formula to create film and TV streaming charts based on weekly minutes watched. Go to Charts to see the latest rankings and browse past weeks.
Navigation
Open Charts in the SV(M) sidebar menu and choose Movies or TV.
The Luminate Top 50 (M)
Each week, we publish charts that rank the top 50 film and TV streaming originals by weekly viewership. Our charts include time watched, up/down trends, week-over-week changes and peak rankings for each entry.
The chart week runs Friday-Friday, 12:00am UTC - 12:00am UTC. Both streaming charts for the preceding week are published weekly on Mondays.
Though SV(M) posts next-day daily viewing figures all week, we require a 72-hour window to update titles with preliminary data and finalize chart rankings.
We do not revise final charts after publication. Rankings are “locked” as of Monday mornings.
The (M) in chart titles (and the name of the platform) stands for (Modeled). At this time, there is no source for first-party streaming data. Unlike TV networks, streaming platforms do not release daily ratings. Instead, Luminate applies our expertise in data science to the challenge of streaming measurement.
We ingest streaming data from multiple sources and use mathematical modeling to calculate total viewing figures. Final SV(M) streaming ratings are modeled based on ACR panels, information provided by streamers and our own data.
Preliminary data helps improve our accuracy for titles that air simultaneously on linear and streaming, which can result in incomplete next-day coverage. When this happens, we use additional days of data to differentiate signals and adjust initial figures.
Explore streaming charts
The Top 50 Movies and Top TV Shows charts display the same key information for each entry: numerical ranking, title, director/showrunner, streaming platform and viewership data.
Chart weeks
One streaming chart reflects one full week of data. A streaming chart week starts on Friday at 12:00am UTC and ends the following Thursday at 11:59pm UTC. Our chart week designation aligns with the theatrical box office week.
See rankings and data
Charts order is determined by total time streamed during the week for each entry. SV(M) includes the rankings as well as the streaming figures. Besides this week’s minutes/hours watched, chart entries include minutes/hours watched for the week prior, % change in viewership and number of views (for movies).
Badges at left indicate chart position relative to last week:
Higher than last week
Lower than last week
New this week
Since we model our data, we also display confidence levels for each entry. High confidence indicates that SV(M) ingested enough data to model viewership with a greater probability of accuracy.
Expand chart entries
Click any chart entry (not the title) to see a breakout pane that includes key information, past chart positions and up or down trends.
Chart entry metadata
Release Date
Original premiere date of the TV season or movie.
Genre
All applicable genres.
Weeks On
Number of weeks spent on the chart to date
Peak
Highest position within the top 50
Low
Lowest position within the top 50
This Week / Last Week / -# Weeks
The bottom-left box shows this week’s viewership. Each box to the right counts one week back; -3 Weeks shows data from 3 weeks ago. Use < and > to navigate.
View past charts
Select a different chart week from the Time Frame menu in the top menu bar.
Why can’t I select multiple weeks?
Charts are weekly; you can only view one chart at a time. To see more than one week of data, go to a Title Dashboard or build a Comparison.
Export charts
Click at top right to export a chart as a CSV or Excel. You can only export one chart—that is, one week—at a time.
Chart exports appear in grid or table format, with ranked entries, topline metadata for each entry (distributor, creator, release date), and viewership in both minutes and hours for the selected chart week, and the previous week.
What do my export file names mean?
SV(M) automatically generates file names for exports. They include the chart title and week number.
Chart title_W[WW] [YYYY]
Partial/in-progress charts are indicated in export names. For example, a CSV export of the Top 50 Movies chart for Week 44 of 2024 downloaded on Wednesday of that week looks like this:
Luminate Top 50-Movies-W44 2024-Partial Oct 28.csv
“Partial Oct 28” means that the exported chart is for a partial week and includes data up to 10/28.
More to know
About the Model: How SV(M) measures streaming views
Comparison: Head-to-head streaming performance
SV(M) Model FAQs: Viewership, data sources and streaming charts
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