The MindShare Top 50
NFL Week 4 holds No. 1 at 87.7, up from 84.2, on the Chiefs. Chiefs–Raiders in CBS’s late window averaged 28.45 million, the largest NFL audience of the season and the biggest Week 4 window since Nielsen started people meters in 1988; Eagles–Bears on Monday night did 22.6 million across ABC and ESPN, Lions–Panthers on Sunday Night Football 19.51 million (the first NBC game of the year under 20 million), FOX’s singleheader 19.15 million, Browns–Steelers 16.59 million on Prime Video, CBS’s early doubleheader 15.23 million and Colts–Commanders from London 4.99 million on NFL Network. Seven national windows summed 126.5 million against last week’s 117.5 million, each counted at three hours, with the studio shows riding the same line at their own length. College Football Week 5 holds No. 2 (45.7) on 12 national windows plus College GameDay from Iowa City, led by Ohio State–Iowa at 5.97 million on CBS, the weekend’s most-watched game and a rare CBS win, with ABC topping out at 5.08 million for Alabama–Mississippi State.
The MLB postseason is new at No. 3 (41.8) and No. 4 (33.8), and Taylor Swift re-enters at No. 5 (21.1) on the first full chart week for The Life of a Showgirl: Encore. Red Sox–Yankees drew 7.31 million and 7.41 million on NBC, the most-watched Wild Card Series yet, and Phillies–Braves 6.13 million for Thursday’s decider; the Division Series opened Saturday with Braves–Dodgers at 5.37 million on FOX, the biggest LDS Game 1 since 2018. The four new Encore tracks took the top four slots of the Spotify US chart, Patient Zero at 19.1 million streams, and the artist total runs 68.2 million across nine songs. The morning shows are back: Today at No. 7 (19.0), Good Morning America at No. 10 and CBS Mornings at No. 18, after a week off the chart, and 60 Minutes re-enters at No. 16 on 10.20 million behind the Chiefs overrun. East of Eden, Netflix’s seven-part Steinbeck adaptation with Florence Pugh, is new at No. 11 (17.2) on 6.5 million views in four days and No. 1 on the global English list; A Different World climbs to No. 6 (19.1) in its second week at US No. 1, while Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story falls from No. 5 to No. 43 as it slips to US No. 5. Jimmy Kimmel’s Brooklyn week, five originals including a Friday show averaging 3.295 million, lifts him from No. 12 to No. 8. The WNBA’s first round rises to No. 12 on Fever–Aces Game 3 at 2.25 million, the end of Caitlin Clark’s season. On the broadcast side, Marshals re-enters at No. 28 on an 8.21 million premiere, Tracker is new at No. 36, SNL with Dakota Johnson and Turnstile sits at No. 21, and The Voice drops from No. 4 to No. 23 with NBC’s Tuesday-through-Thursday given to baseball. Verity opened to $32.0 million and is new at No. 31; Digger, with Tom Cruise, opened to $8.0 million and misses the chart. The VMAs, America’s Got Talent and the Presidents Cup leave as their events end, Avengers: Endgame Encore falls 83% to $4.5 million and leaves from No. 18, and the NHL’s opening week is new at No. 38. Music carries two entries this week against three last week: Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, who climbs to No. 26 on 34.3 million streams, up from 23.3 million; Morgan Wallen and Ella Langley slip off on lighter weeks.
On the numbers. NBC Nightly News is scored on Nielsen’s Monday figure multiplied across the five nights it aired, because Tuesday through Friday were retitled for the baseball games; it is the thinnest basis on the chart this week and its blurb says so. SNL’s clip views are counted across the seven days after air, the standing treatment for that show. The football, baseball, WNBA and NHL entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and FOX’s noon college window, The OT and the Peacock-only Wild Card games had none. Sunday’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas had no published audience by press time and is not charted. Cable news entries use the published nights, stated in each blurb.
The MLB postseason is new at No. 3 (41.8) and No. 4 (33.8), and Taylor Swift re-enters at No. 5 (21.1) on the first full chart week for The Life of a Showgirl: Encore. Red Sox–Yankees drew 7.31 million and 7.41 million on NBC, the most-watched Wild Card Series yet, and Phillies–Braves 6.13 million for Thursday’s decider; the Division Series opened Saturday with Braves–Dodgers at 5.37 million on FOX, the biggest LDS Game 1 since 2018. The four new Encore tracks took the top four slots of the Spotify US chart, Patient Zero at 19.1 million streams, and the artist total runs 68.2 million across nine songs. The morning shows are back: Today at No. 7 (19.0), Good Morning America at No. 10 and CBS Mornings at No. 18, after a week off the chart, and 60 Minutes re-enters at No. 16 on 10.20 million behind the Chiefs overrun. East of Eden, Netflix’s seven-part Steinbeck adaptation with Florence Pugh, is new at No. 11 (17.2) on 6.5 million views in four days and No. 1 on the global English list; A Different World climbs to No. 6 (19.1) in its second week at US No. 1, while Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story falls from No. 5 to No. 43 as it slips to US No. 5. Jimmy Kimmel’s Brooklyn week, five originals including a Friday show averaging 3.295 million, lifts him from No. 12 to No. 8. The WNBA’s first round rises to No. 12 on Fever–Aces Game 3 at 2.25 million, the end of Caitlin Clark’s season. On the broadcast side, Marshals re-enters at No. 28 on an 8.21 million premiere, Tracker is new at No. 36, SNL with Dakota Johnson and Turnstile sits at No. 21, and The Voice drops from No. 4 to No. 23 with NBC’s Tuesday-through-Thursday given to baseball. Verity opened to $32.0 million and is new at No. 31; Digger, with Tom Cruise, opened to $8.0 million and misses the chart. The VMAs, America’s Got Talent and the Presidents Cup leave as their events end, Avengers: Endgame Encore falls 83% to $4.5 million and leaves from No. 18, and the NHL’s opening week is new at No. 38. Music carries two entries this week against three last week: Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, who climbs to No. 26 on 34.3 million streams, up from 23.3 million; Morgan Wallen and Ella Langley slip off on lighter weeks.
On the numbers. NBC Nightly News is scored on Nielsen’s Monday figure multiplied across the five nights it aired, because Tuesday through Friday were retitled for the baseball games; it is the thinnest basis on the chart this week and its blurb says so. SNL’s clip views are counted across the seven days after air, the standing treatment for that show. The football, baseball, WNBA and NHL entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and FOX’s noon college window, The OT and the Peacock-only Wild Card games had none. Sunday’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas had no published audience by press time and is not charted. Cable news entries use the published nights, stated in each blurb.