The MindShare Top 50
A quiet week, and the chart shows it. After a three-week run of records — Artemis, the NBA opening weekend peak, Round 1 — nothing this week reached for the 285M benchmark. NBA Playoffs Round 2 holds #1 at 85.4: the conference semifinals swept all ten of the week’s most-watched US sports telecasts, but fewer games than the Round 1 blitz means a lower ceiling. The chart accelerates downward as fast as it accelerates up.
Noah Kahan cools to #2 (38.9), down from 62.8. The Great Divide still has the widest footprint on the chart — 22 tracks in Spotify’s US weekly top 200 — but album gravity fades on schedule, and he was also SNL’s musical guest May 9. Music holds at six entries, the same as last week: the v5.1.3 coverage recalibration is settling into a steady level. Netflix had a busy week of debuts — Worst Ex Ever Season 2 at #4, Remarkably Bright Creatures at #14, three Kevin Hart specials — and broadcast was finale-heavy, with 9-1-1, Grey’s Anatomy, Will Trent and NCIS: Origins all closing seasons. No methodology changes this week.
One sourcing note, in the open. FlixPatrol’s weekly view was paywalled this week, so the non-Netflix streaming ranks (Disney+, HBO Max, Prime, etc.) were taken from the nearest daily snapshot rather than the May 4–10 week, and the entries are flagged accordingly. Most are multi-week titles where the difference is small, but it’s worth knowing which numbers are week-exact and which are close-enough.
Noah Kahan cools to #2 (38.9), down from 62.8. The Great Divide still has the widest footprint on the chart — 22 tracks in Spotify’s US weekly top 200 — but album gravity fades on schedule, and he was also SNL’s musical guest May 9. Music holds at six entries, the same as last week: the v5.1.3 coverage recalibration is settling into a steady level. Netflix had a busy week of debuts — Worst Ex Ever Season 2 at #4, Remarkably Bright Creatures at #14, three Kevin Hart specials — and broadcast was finale-heavy, with 9-1-1, Grey’s Anatomy, Will Trent and NCIS: Origins all closing seasons. No methodology changes this week.
One sourcing note, in the open. FlixPatrol’s weekly view was paywalled this week, so the non-Netflix streaming ranks (Disney+, HBO Max, Prime, etc.) were taken from the nearest daily snapshot rather than the May 4–10 week, and the entries are flagged accordingly. Most are multi-week titles where the difference is small, but it’s worth knowing which numbers are week-exact and which are close-enough.