SV(M) Charts: Streaming film and TV rankings

SV(M) Charts: Streaming film and TV rankings

Luminate publishes official streaming film and TV charts based on weekly minutes watched. Go to Charts to see the latest rankings and browse past weeks.



Open Charts in the SV(M) sidebar menu and choose Movies or TV.






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The Luminate Top 50

Luminate’s streaming charts rank the top 50 streaming movies and top 50 streaming TV shows by weekly viewership.


Chart frequency: Weekly on Mondays

The streaming chart week runs Friday - Thursday, 12:00am UTC - 11:59pm UTC. 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.



Preliminary data
Chart weeks and titles marked incorporate preliminary data. This means that modeled viewership is not final and may be updated before chart publication.



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. 


Daily charts for the week in progress may show preliminary data and rankings through the weekend.



SV(M) charts rank streaming originals only. To include non-original or library titles, create a Ranking Report. 
Streaming chart eligibility

Only streaming originals — TV series and movies identified as “original” by the distributing streaming platform — are eligible for the Luminate Top 50. This includes streaming-first titles and some streaming day-and-date titles (i.e. titles that debut on linear TV and streaming within the same week). 

Ex. Stranger Things, Andor, KPop Demon Hunters


Some streaming original films may have a limited theatrical release (such as the Knives Out series or Frankenstein on Netflix). But most first-run theatrical titles do not qualify. 



 



Explore streaming charts

Top 50 titles for the week are listed with ranking numbers at left. Chart rankings are determined by total time streamed (minutes or hours watched) for the week. 

Colored badges beneath the ranking numbers indicate position relative to last week: ↑ rank up, ↓ rank down, NEW or unchanged (—).


Included chart metrics
Besides weekly viewership, TV and Movie charts include additional metrics and metadata. 


From left to right:

MIN WATCHED = Total modeled viewership with % change from last week (if applicable).
WEEKS ON = Number of weeks on the chart. 
PLATFORM = Streamer that originally released the title.
PREVIOUS WEEK = Last week's viewership time. 
RELEASE DATE = Release date of the movie or TV season.
DURATION = Runtime. For TV shows, this is the total length of all available episodes as of the chart week.
VIEWS = Total Views (movies) or Season Views (TV). Read more here. 
GENRE = All applicable genres
CONFIDENCE = Confidence score for modeled data.


Reorder or sort chart columns
Click and drag headers to reorder columns.


Click any column header to sort by that column instead. Titles will be re-sorted with original ranking numbers preserved. 


Click the area above the ranking column (far left) to return to the original chart ranking.

Rank History
Click the icon at the far right of any chart entry to open Rank History as a pop-out overlay.


Rank History displays the number of weeks the title has been on the chart, peak position and low position.



Below, weekly ranks and minutes watched for all charting weeks are listed in descending order from the current week. (To see full chart metrics for a particular week, close the pop-out and navigate to that chart).


Confidence scores
Since we model our data, we also display a Confidence score or each entry (far right column). High confidence indicates that SV(M) ingested enough data to model viewership with a greater probability of accuracy. 

Confidence levels for the week in progress may be lower than those on past weeks. We adjust confidence scores after we adjust preliminary data and finalize viewership figures.



 



View past charts 

Both charts open to the current week. The current week's charts show preliminary rankings as of the last available day of data.


Use the left and right arrows to flip to a different week or select one from the dropdown menu.



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 or Ranking Report.






Export charts

Open the … menu at top right to download a chart in CSV or Excel format.



Chart exports appear in grid or table format, with ranked entries, metadata for each entry (distributor, creator, release date), and viewership in minutes and hours for the selected chart week and the previous week. 


You can only export one chart — that is, one week — at a time. 

Chart export file names
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. 

 



 


Charts FAQ

When does the SV(M) chart week start and end?

A streaming chart week starts on Friday at 12:00am UTC and ends the following Thursday at 11:59 UTC. This chart week designation aligns with the theatrical box office week. 



When are streaming charts published?

Both streaming charts — TV and movies — are published in SV(M) weekly on Mondays. This gives our model sufficient time to adjust and finalize preliminary data after the chart week closes. 











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



Read next: SV(M) Ranking Report: Sort and export streaming titles



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