The MindShare Top 50
NFL Week 7 holds No. 1 at 87.3, up from 85.5, and live sports take the top four spots for the third time this fall. Chiefs–Seahawks drew 26.29 million on Sunday Night Football, the biggest primetime audience of the season and the most-watched Week 7 Sunday night game since 2013; Packers–Lions gave FOX’s late window 24.67 million; Patriots–Bears did 19.86 million on Prime Video, the second-largest Thursday night audience of the Amazon era; and Commanders–49ers drew 17.9 million across six platforms on Monday night. CBS’s singleheader did 15.43 million, FOX’s early window 14.01 million and Steelers–Saints from Paris 7.70 million at 9:30 in the morning. Seven national windows summed 125.9 million against last week’s 122.3 million, each counted at three hours, with Football Night in America and The OT riding the same line at their own lengths. College Football Week 8 holds No. 2 (47.0, from 51.1) on a Saturday without a 10 million game: Ole Miss–Texas gave ABC 8.09 million in primetime opposite the World Series, Indiana–Michigan drew 7.015 million at noon and Texas A&M–Alabama 5.90 million; thirteen national windows summed 42.7 million. The World Series is new at No. 3 (37.3): Rays–Brewers opened to 12.26 million on FOX Friday and 10.85 million Saturday. And the NBA’s opening week is new at No. 4 (37.2): LeBron James’s 76ers debut against the Knicks drew 7.71 million on NBC and Peacock on Tuesday, the largest opening-night audience in league history, and nine national windows summed 28.6 million.
Netflix lands two new titles in the top ten, Zach Bryan returns, and a repeat week sends Kimmel off. Nobody Wants This dropped its third season Thursday, took US No. 2 in four days on 6.2 million views and is new at No. 6 (17.2), the biggest opening week for a returning comedy this year; From, the MGM+ horror series whose first three seasons arrived under license on Monday, took US No. 1 on the TV list and is new at No. 7 (16.9) even at the catalog discount. Below slips from US No. 1 to No. 5 after three weeks and falls from No. 4 to No. 37 (11.2, from 19.1); Animals holds the film list for a third week at No. 10; Surviving Hurricane Otis, the Mexican storm drama, opened to 14 million views and is new at No. 21; Gladiator II is new at No. 27 in its first week on the service. Doing Life, East of Eden and TYSON leave the chart as they fall down or out of the US top ten. The Terminal List’s second season took Prime Video No. 1 on each of its four days and is new at No. 15 (13.8), pushing Carrie to No. 16. ABC’s two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert drew 4.74 million Wednesday and is new at No. 12 (13.9). Zach Bryan’s EP, out October 16, lands in full with ten charting tracks and 35.3 million streams, and he re-enters at No. 18 (13.3); Olivia Rodrigo holds No. 14 as expectations with Chappell Roan opens at Spotify No. 3, and music carries two entries against three last week, with Ella Langley and Drake slipping just under the line. The League Championship Series closes at No. 9 (15.3, from 47.6) on the Rays’ Game 6 clincher, 4.3 million opposite Monday Night Football, and the WNBA Finals rise to No. 11 on three games topped by a record 1.895 million for Saturday’s Game 4. Jimmy Kimmel Live!, No. 10 last week, aired five repeats and does not chart; Fallon and Meyers returned with four originals each and The Tonight Show re-enters at No. 38. The Voice falls off from No. 11 with Tuesday’s show preempted by the NBA, 60 Minutes falls off from No. 14 without the football overrun, and Street Fighter, No. 21 on its opening, drops 72% and leaves; You Can See Everything grew 20% to $18.7 million in its wide expansion and rises to No. 40, while Clayface’s $24.0 million opening lands at No. 53, a 108-minute film just under the 10.4 bubble.
On the numbers. The football, basketball and baseball entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and this week that includes ESPN’s Monday studio shows, Big Noon Kickoff and the NBA’s Peacock-only games. The three morning shows are not scored this week because Nielsen’s weekly figures for the week of October 19 had not been published when the chart was made; they return when they are. The three evening newscasts are scored on the nights Nielsen measured, multiplied across the nights they aired: Friday was retitled on all three networks and NBC’s Tuesday newscast gave way to the NBA opener. Four Netflix entries are capped at the title’s own published global hours where the US rank curve would have exceeded them, and say so in their entries.
Netflix lands two new titles in the top ten, Zach Bryan returns, and a repeat week sends Kimmel off. Nobody Wants This dropped its third season Thursday, took US No. 2 in four days on 6.2 million views and is new at No. 6 (17.2), the biggest opening week for a returning comedy this year; From, the MGM+ horror series whose first three seasons arrived under license on Monday, took US No. 1 on the TV list and is new at No. 7 (16.9) even at the catalog discount. Below slips from US No. 1 to No. 5 after three weeks and falls from No. 4 to No. 37 (11.2, from 19.1); Animals holds the film list for a third week at No. 10; Surviving Hurricane Otis, the Mexican storm drama, opened to 14 million views and is new at No. 21; Gladiator II is new at No. 27 in its first week on the service. Doing Life, East of Eden and TYSON leave the chart as they fall down or out of the US top ten. The Terminal List’s second season took Prime Video No. 1 on each of its four days and is new at No. 15 (13.8), pushing Carrie to No. 16. ABC’s two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert drew 4.74 million Wednesday and is new at No. 12 (13.9). Zach Bryan’s EP, out October 16, lands in full with ten charting tracks and 35.3 million streams, and he re-enters at No. 18 (13.3); Olivia Rodrigo holds No. 14 as expectations with Chappell Roan opens at Spotify No. 3, and music carries two entries against three last week, with Ella Langley and Drake slipping just under the line. The League Championship Series closes at No. 9 (15.3, from 47.6) on the Rays’ Game 6 clincher, 4.3 million opposite Monday Night Football, and the WNBA Finals rise to No. 11 on three games topped by a record 1.895 million for Saturday’s Game 4. Jimmy Kimmel Live!, No. 10 last week, aired five repeats and does not chart; Fallon and Meyers returned with four originals each and The Tonight Show re-enters at No. 38. The Voice falls off from No. 11 with Tuesday’s show preempted by the NBA, 60 Minutes falls off from No. 14 without the football overrun, and Street Fighter, No. 21 on its opening, drops 72% and leaves; You Can See Everything grew 20% to $18.7 million in its wide expansion and rises to No. 40, while Clayface’s $24.0 million opening lands at No. 53, a 108-minute film just under the 10.4 bubble.
On the numbers. The football, basketball and baseball entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and this week that includes ESPN’s Monday studio shows, Big Noon Kickoff and the NBA’s Peacock-only games. The three morning shows are not scored this week because Nielsen’s weekly figures for the week of October 19 had not been published when the chart was made; they return when they are. The three evening newscasts are scored on the nights Nielsen measured, multiplied across the nights they aired: Friday was retitled on all three networks and NBC’s Tuesday newscast gave way to the NBA opener. Four Netflix entries are capped at the title’s own published global hours where the US rank curve would have exceeded them, and say so in their entries.