I was under the impression that the Simpsons was one of the most popular shows of all time. It had a brief moment in the top 10 in 96 and that was it. I'm shocked
One of the reasons is Fox made the dumb, dumb decision to move the Simpsons to Thursday nights to compete directly against the Cosby Show. If they had just left it on Sunday night, then it would've had much higher viewership.
This isn’t international audiences. The Simpsons was translated into just about every language and has been a hit just about everywhere with reruns in all these countries just about everywhere. Go to any country in the world, turn on the tv, flip the channels, and sooner or later you’ll find the Simpsons.
Fox was still a young network at the time and couldn't match the viewership numbers of the Big 3. Notice how you don't see a single other Fox show until Simpsons and X-Files pop up.
Sad the data didn't start a few years earlier and it would reveal MASH as the all time Most Popular TV series produced. I'm surprised Stranger Things didn't rank higher, it seems to be a victim of the very long delays between seasons. Netflix certainly feels like they are struggling to be represented in the top listed TV series.
Agreed. I wish we could see this with data from M*A*S*H. The final episode of M*A*S*H was rated higher then the Super Bowl for MANY MANY years. It might be neat to see a chart of shows/broadcast based on all time peak ratings ranked like this over the years.
what this showed me was that I apparently stopped watching TV shows in the early 2000s. Never saw a single episode of most of those shows, and frankly didn't miss them.
Insane that over decades nothing could beat the Cosby Show until GoT came along. The hype was unreal and if the last season had been split into two and been actually good I am sure the hype would have even continued to grow.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 I think the list kinda conducted of some main network companies. Where’s smallville from 2000s. Where’s louis and Clark from 90s? And from 80s some favorite shows like moonlighting?
I'm just amazed at how long NCIS was up in the top two or three. It held the top spot longer than any other series since the Cosby Show and ER I think.
very impressive ! NCIS ✨ i'm also more puzzled by how fleeting was Friends in the top spot ! .. it's media hype is wayyyy more appealing than its actual rating numbers throughout its air time ! (i'm a ✨ Seinfeld ✨ fan though ) .
@@thefunnygoat6325 If I remember correctly, Fox in the mid-80's was not in every market in the US like ABC, NBC, or CBS. So just the reach wasn't there
Michael Crichton was the writer of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. In the early 1990s, he had the number one book, number one movie, and number one TV show.
the legend is back 🎉 i loved your content back in 2019/2020, it's honestly what inspired me to do graphs, so thanks and a happy welcome from everyone here in the comments :D
@@tkdevlopIve reported you to the police for drugs. Im sorry its illegal and you will thank me in the future. My advice after losing my brother to drugs is stop selling them and shooting up before its to late. Ive reported you with the report button on here and phoned the police for your admission of drugs. And handed all of your details over. Thank me for saving your life. Either way i pray you get your life back on track. Peace be with you!!!
Interesting how the 80's & 90's stuff all made sense to me (I can remember what was popular even if I didn't watch it), while the newer stuff was often a total surprise. It's so easy now to be isolated in our own fan communities, absorbing tons of data and discussion about what we like, and not even accidentally run across something outside that range. We don't even have "saw it while waiting for something to come on" anymore, since we watch everything on-demand now.
a lot of it had to do with channels. if you were on after the popular show people just didnt change the channel. nbc thursday nights was a unique period in history cheers, cosby, nightcourt, and family ties
We aren't forced to watch "channels" anymore. Stuff has to stand on its own. That's why Game of Thrones is made for adults and is intended to be at the level of a good movie. When you have a captive audience, then you can do Love Boat and crap like that. I like it the way it is now. Except when elections come along: no broadcast TV = no more shared facts, apparently.
The Walking Dead certainly had it's ups and downs, but it was able to do Zombie Apocalypse sci-fi like I'd never seen before, and it's highs were so great to watch when they were first released. Excited to watch a few of the spin-off shows coming.
Hum...I expected it to be higher or stay longer in the top10 honestly... that show was a huge cultural phenomenon back then, they even made 2 theater movies out of it
Really shows how people just don't watch shows as much as they used to. The top ten today wouldn't even make the top ten from 1987. This was super fascinating!
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial Do you have the numbers for how many shows were in production over the same interval? Would be really curious about what context that gives to this video :D
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial I just listened to a podcast today that this time is a perfect time to be a ScreenWriter because there are SO many options available. An Abundance of Content. Creativity will rise to the top.
@@LorenzoDoesntExist, given how much they spent on that show, that's an enormous loss. Goes to show what happens when you warp a beloved IP and disdain its fans. Tolkien despised political commentary in fantasy, and a central theme of the LoTR was that that you can't use evil means to achieve good things. Both of these stances are directly contradicted by the show.
Even crazier when you remember that NCIS is a spin off of JAG, which ran ten seasons by itself. Then, not only are JAG and all the NCIS in the same universe, but so are Hawaii 5-O, MacGyver, and Magnum PI. 1996-present. That's a monster universe! Only 40, and I already go "yep, we don't wear those uniforms anymore. We don't have those aircraft. We don't use those ships now" when watching JAG or early NCIS.
Well the Golden Era was really in the 20th Century when people gathered together to watch TV at a specific time -- before streaming, before DVR's, before even VCR's.
For me it is 2008, Dexter, Breaking, Mentalist, Two and half, Big bang, about Mentalist I was very active on forums, it is last tv show where I guessing who is Red John, give advice or suggestions....
Thanks for returning to the stats community. You’ve given our community a lot and I appreciate it. Me and many others make statistics like this because of how cool these visualisations are.
The numbers from 1986 ranged from 65,000,000 to 34,000,000. Compare that to 2022 at 25,000,000 to 15,000,000. And that was with 100,000,000 fewer people in the US. That tells me there are many more options and it's harder and harder to get eyeballs on your show. It makes me kinda of miss the good old days when everyone watched the same shows and could talk about them. It was part of the glue that kept the country together. Now, people have less and less in common. But great video as always.
really refreshing to see you back, this exact same background music like your old videos brings so much nostalgia even though it's been only 2 years. keep it up :D
Lost interest when they ruined the show and changed half the actors. All the focus was on the princess who changes suddenly and the King who doesn’t change but is actually not great a character at all. Rings of Power was better.
Another show with tonnes of SEX that gets “critical acclaim” Just watch a porno man 😂 Seriously, these shows are AIMED at COUPLES to get them off. Its like an acceptable way of getting porn to the masses. Then the audience all go round patting eachother on the back by exchanging in depth analysis on how good the production value is and the script and the genius directing etc They’re just GETTING OFF together 😂 end OF
I believe you. I watch a lot of entertainment and have seen The Walking Dead season 1 only of the 3 you have listed. We don't get the kind of audiences we used to.
I knew that BBT was very popular but the fact that it was within the top 3 for so long (almost as long as its existence), is quite fascinating. It also immediately helped Young Sheldon to get a spot within the list here.
I absolutely loved TBBT but never got on with Young Sheldon, probably because Kaley was not in it. I was surprised that Friends only went to the top once, that was another of my favourite shows. A lot of those at the top I never watched.
@@honestchris7472 well, there are some shows that weren't in the top 5 for that long, even though they marked television history, like Friends, The Sopranos, or Breaking Bad. There are probably shows with more views, but less impact on the culture like those, for instance
@@AlexKaufman maybe it is because I don`t, or didn`t watch a lot of the ones that hit the top a lot, for instance, I never watched the Soprano`s and I never watched Breaking Bad either. Of course that does not mean that I thought that they were not worth watching, it is all about the hook, if the title does not inspire a person to watch it, then you never get into it but even so, quite a few programs that did have the hook turned out to be a waste of time, Hero`s, The Dome, The 100, lost and The Last of Us are three examples, each started good but then they made them into series and the writers struggled to keep them going, for all of these, one series would have been enough if they had a proper believable ending.
@@mightybitchy The shows are just incredibly well made (if you ignore the ending of GoT, which was basically a fatigue death). The first 6 seasons barely have any weaknesses, be it music, cinematography, writing, dialogue, acting, casting, costumes, CGI. It's all top class and couldn't really be achieved anymore since. House of the Dragon almost succeeded, but dropped in quality sadly in season 2 due to money cuts.
There is a serious lack of acknowledgement in the comments here for *Seinfeld* When it ended it was at the height of it's popularity, with 51 million views. Before international viewing or streaming via the internet was possible. So that is 51 Million people, mostly just in America watching the last episode all at the same time on TV. That record was broken only by one series: Game of Thrones. An international series where the stats also include streaming that happened the week after release. It's crazy, absolutely nuts how popular Seinfeld was. And no one is talking about it.
Yeah Seinfeld was everything in the mid to late 90's. Every Friday morning people would be talking about it. I'm surprised that The Office isn't anywhere on here. It was hilarious as well.
Nice! I love that the top is like 50M and how NCIS just stays in the top 10, like people are truly addicted to that junk (my dad is one of them). props to you for compiling all the streaming, TV viewership estimates, and pirating data! glad to have you back!
That show honestly kinda peaked a decade ago. It was genuinely great for a good stretch there, but at this point I feel like itself become that thing people watch because sunk cost.
I’m surprised by two things: I knew NCIS was popular, but didn’t realize it was quite so strong for so long I really thought Stranger Things would have been more impressive ratings wise based on the social hype around it
I think it is amazing to see that there are specific shows like Wandavision which are huge for a specific amount of time and then there is NCIS: in this Top 10 since 2013 and still not even close to lose viewers. They do many things the right way for a long time already..
Yeah the paid limited series come in and dominate but NCIS stayed steady. I’ve never seen it nor do I know anyone that watches it but it must be doing something right. I’ll probably find out in reruns like Frazier lol
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial I feel like they’ll just keep going until Mark Harmon’s gone. Then they’ll recast and everyone will stop watching and they’ll finally stop making it and only show re-runs.
I grew up watching Saved by the Bell, Family Matters, Growing Pains, and Full House. I’m surprised some of these shows are not as popular as I thought they were!
Saved by the Bell originally aired Saturday mornings. And it may have been popular enough to get a reboot on a streaming service, it was cancelled after one or two seasons on Peacock.
Full House did appear in the top ten at one point Not sure whether SbtB did but I think it was more of a kids' show than one that appealed as broadly as most top ten shows do?
They WERE popular.. but popularity was different back in the day.. there was more quality content and TV was the only real form of entertainment.. no youtube, no internet... so people watched almost all shows or atleast watched more shows than they do now... so the overall viewing numbers were far more distributed than the concentrated burst numbers you see now for shows like Wandavision or Mandalorian...
@@adscott27 Next Generation and Deep Space 9 were awesome. Deep Space 9 was important for showing tv executives that people would indeed watch multi-episode long arcs on tv (as opposed to episodic shows), it paved the way for future shows like GoT.
I expected a couple of shows to be ranked WAY higher on this list: - Columbo - A-Team - Baywatch - Knight Rider - Married... with children - Star Trek - TNG, DS9 & VOY - Buffy - South Park - King of Queens - How I met your mother (like, srsly WTF?!? I expected this to be #1 at some point) - Stranger Things Some of those weren't even on that list oO
Surprised Friends and especially Fresh Prince of Bel Air didn't top the US rankings in the '90s... Because over here in the UK, Friends and Fresh Prince were the biggest US sitcoms we watched in the '90s.
You can really see when new seasons of streaming shows drop. They jump up in ratings quick and then drop off just as quickly after everyone has binged the season.
Loved to see Seinfeld and Two and a Half Men holding its own. Also Breaking Bad, but it should've been higher for a longer time. I'm sad that Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 version) didn't make the ranking. It's the best sci-fi show of all time to me.
I swear to god, if I am ever monstrously rich, I am going to buy the rights to Friends, edit out all the laugh tracks, and re-release it so I can show the world just how un-fucking-funny that show truly is.
This is amazing! 😊I loved how Game of Thrones, NCIS, and Bing Bang Theory fought for the top spot for long while. Would be nice if you can make a mini version of the last few years. I know friends who would love this but won't sit through a 10-min video 😄
The updated top 10 list was great, but I would love to see a top 15 or top 20. It would be challenging to view more than a Top 10 list on a phone. However it would be so cool to see. for example, Orange Is The New Black was a favorite show of mine that barely cracked the top ten but IMO was top 20 for a long time. A top 20 list would have more streaming content on it from the mid 90s to present… it would be cool to see. Thanks for the great top 10 video
There are proper Computers to watch videos with and there are tablets, so this would be no problem. A phone is for using with Telegram, Signal, using webradio and calling other people, there is no need to watch videos on a 8cm screen if there are loads of sensible other options.
@@deineroehrebecause a phone is a miniature version of those, and has more day to day use than the others for the reasons you stated a phone is used for, so why carry 2-3 devices when you can have all in one?
Super well done. It was timed well enough I felt like I got a lot out of it. Quite a few surprises in there. For instance, I had no clue NCIS was that popular, that thing is a power house. I also found it interesting no Marvel Disney+ shows cracked this list after Loki.
So glad you're back! Still drives me crazy that bar color is just random and not used to convey more information. Could show networks, or genre, or something. Please!
The staying power of NCIS is impressive. I don't watch much TV but I have watched most of that show. Nothing else has that level of viewers and longevity.
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Sorry I'm late.
I owe you more videos!
First 😁🙏😃
it's alright lol but welcome back!
You're finally back, we're all stoked for your return and thanks! 😄👍
So long u r fine
welcome back😭after sooooooo long
What I learned from this is that NCIS is apparently a beast and I've never seen a single episode. Lol.
because it has 20 seasons so took people a long time 2 finish the other shows that came in and out had only 1 -2 seasons
I watched that years ago, I think it was good. Can't speak for current episodes.
Pretty much everyone in America who is over 50 watches it
And people tend to leave the tv on after sporting events lol
Same! 😂
After two years, the legend has returned; awoken from its hibernation.
Truly a legend, been waiting for the return.
*its
@@ProJanitor No, because "Hibernation" is the possession of the subject so there must be an apostrophe before the "s"
@@MrDigThis There should also be a semicolon before “woken”.
@@ProJanitor Yeah that's a fair one, thanks.
I was under the impression that the Simpsons was one of the most popular shows of all time. It had a brief moment in the top 10 in 96 and that was it. I'm shocked
And Survivor
One of the reasons is Fox made the dumb, dumb decision to move the Simpsons to Thursday nights to compete directly against the Cosby Show. If they had just left it on Sunday night, then it would've had much higher viewership.
This isn’t international audiences. The Simpsons was translated into just about every language and has been a hit just about everywhere with reruns in all these countries just about everywhere. Go to any country in the world, turn on the tv, flip the channels, and sooner or later you’ll find the Simpsons.
Maybe agaisnt other animated shows its the top?
Fox was still a young network at the time and couldn't match the viewership numbers of the Big 3. Notice how you don't see a single other Fox show until Simpsons and X-Files pop up.
Sad the data didn't start a few years earlier and it would reveal MASH as the all time Most Popular TV series produced. I'm surprised Stranger Things didn't rank higher, it seems to be a victim of the very long delays between seasons. Netflix certainly feels like they are struggling to be represented in the top listed TV series.
The list is flawed.
Netflix sees competition finally
Agreed. I wish we could see this with data from M*A*S*H. The final episode of M*A*S*H was rated higher then the Super Bowl for MANY MANY years. It might be neat to see a chart of shows/broadcast based on all time peak ratings ranked like this over the years.
what this showed me was that I apparently stopped watching TV shows in the early 2000s. Never saw a single episode of most of those shows, and frankly didn't miss them.
@@bobf5360Was it all of the reality TV that made you quit?
GoT Meta was strong. Also didn't expect Wandavision to be that popular.
Mostly thanks to massively pirated downloads.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial Whoa... I wonder how you can gather that kind of data!
Insane that over decades nothing could beat the Cosby Show until GoT came along. The hype was unreal and if the last season had been split into two and been actually good I am sure the hype would have even continued to grow.
@@niklas5771 What about NCIS? If it wasn't in the top spot, it was in top 3 for the last 12 years!
@@maxxxmodelz4061 I think the list kinda conducted of some main network companies. Where’s smallville from 2000s. Where’s louis and Clark from 90s? And from 80s some favorite shows like moonlighting?
I'm just amazed at how long NCIS was up in the top two or three. It held the top spot longer than any other series since the Cosby Show and ER I think.
I am wondering we dont see Married...with children here. Maybe it was a bigger success here in Germany than in the U.S.
@@thefunnygoat6325 Yeah, it was never really in the top 10 in the ratings, although it was still very popular here too.
very impressive ! NCIS ✨
i'm also more puzzled by how fleeting was Friends in the top spot ! .. it's media hype is wayyyy more appealing than its actual rating numbers throughout its air time ! (i'm a ✨ Seinfeld ✨ fan though ) .
I had to Google NCIS. I’m shocked it’s such a popular show and I know nothing about it.
@@thefunnygoat6325 If I remember correctly, Fox in the mid-80's was not in every market in the US like ABC, NBC, or CBS. So just the reach wasn't there
Can't believe it has been two years already. Excited for more great videos from Data Is Beautiful!
Michael Crichton was the writer of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. In the early 1990s, he had the number one book, number one movie, and number one TV show.
I'm a massive jurassic park nerd and I had no idea about that. Thank you so much for telling! Michael is a damn beast!
The dude was a prolific writer, he's got like 24 movies to his name. Sphere was always my favorite book/movie.
John Belushi had the #1 movie, #1 TV show and the #1 Album all at the same time in 1979.
Twenty years down the road and NCIS is still on the top. Quite impressive
I never even heard of that show but it clearly has staying power.
@@CalvinHikesncis is a pretty cool show it’s about navy cops, but i prefer law and order
Especially for an absolutely shit show... You have to be mentally challenged to watch it.
the legend is back 🎉
i loved your content back in 2019/2020, it's honestly what inspired me to do graphs, so thanks and a happy welcome from everyone here in the comments :D
Thank you all! I read every comment, best dopamine boost ever.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial what the hell happened?
@@Threepeater6447 drugs
@@tkdevlop you think?
@@tkdevlopIve reported you to the police for drugs. Im sorry its illegal and you will thank me in the future. My advice after losing my brother to drugs is stop selling them and shooting up before its to late. Ive reported you with the report button on here and phoned the police for your admission of drugs. And handed all of your details over. Thank me for saving your life. Either way i pray you get your life back on track. Peace be with you!!!
Glad to see you're doing alright. Your videos are one of the better ones in the data community.
Thank you!
Did Rick and Morty never crack the list? Was GOT the only show to get 50 mil +?
Seeing rings of power pop up for an embarrassing second and house of the dragon getting to the top restored my faith in the future of entertainment.
😂🤣 I know right??
I saw the same thing. Hilarious. They could have made easy money.
It's so satisfying!!!
It just proved the chart is wrong and lacks data, it maxed at 15mill when the premiere had 25mill first 24hours.
@@Askyl no that’s Amazon lying about its real views
Interesting how the 80's & 90's stuff all made sense to me (I can remember what was popular even if I didn't watch it), while the newer stuff was often a total surprise.
It's so easy now to be isolated in our own fan communities, absorbing tons of data and discussion about what we like, and not even accidentally run across something outside that range. We don't even have "saw it while waiting for something to come on" anymore, since we watch everything on-demand now.
a lot of it had to do with channels. if you were on after the popular show people just didnt change the channel. nbc thursday nights was a unique period in history cheers, cosby, nightcourt, and family ties
I miss the 80's and 90"s or even some of the 2000's was good, nowadays suck!!
TV is garbage now. I don't have it anymore.
We aren't forced to watch "channels" anymore. Stuff has to stand on its own. That's why Game of Thrones is made for adults and is intended to be at the level of a good movie. When you have a captive audience, then you can do Love Boat and crap like that. I like it the way it is now.
Except when elections come along: no broadcast TV = no more shared facts, apparently.
The Walking Dead certainly had it's ups and downs, but it was able to do Zombie Apocalypse sci-fi like I'd never seen before, and it's highs were so great to watch when they were first released. Excited to watch a few of the spin-off shows coming.
Love seeing The X-Files break into the ranks. 25 million is an insane number of viewers for a show of that kind.
Hum...I expected it to be higher or stay longer in the top10 honestly... that show was a huge cultural phenomenon back then, they even made 2 theater movies out of it
X-Files was excellent for a few seasons.
@@murceg0electrico I thought so too but I think the demographic was smaller than I originally thought.
Really shows how people just don't watch shows as much as they used to. The top ten today wouldn't even make the top ten from 1987. This was super fascinating!
More choice nowadays. Saturated.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial Do you have the numbers for how many shows were in production over the same interval? Would be really curious about what context that gives to this video :D
Well Game of Thrones did have better numbers at 61.8 million than The Cosby Show at its peak with “only” 61.2 million
I don’t have it. I can only assume it’s higher now just look how many shows Netflix alone seeds every year.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial I just listened to a podcast today that this time is a perfect time to be a ScreenWriter because there are SO many options available. An Abundance of Content. Creativity will rise to the top.
Rings of Power appeared for 1 second, then disappeared... beautiful
i noticed the same thing, it warmed my hearth :)
Yeah 16 million is such a colossal failure. You're really sticking it to the corporations by disliking a TV show.
@@LorenzoDoesntExist, given how much they spent on that show, that's an enormous loss. Goes to show what happens when you warp a beloved IP and disdain its fans. Tolkien despised political commentary in fantasy, and a central theme of the LoTR was that that you can't use evil means to achieve good things. Both of these stances are directly contradicted by the show.
@@carsonrush3352 I'm in awe of your acute understanding of politics, finance, business, and audiovisual production.
Lets wait for the 2nd season.
Props to "Murder She Wrote" for being in the charts for so long.
Seinfeld dominating Friends right until its very end brought a smile to my face.
The longevity of NCIS is insane 🤯.
What's that?
@@margesimpson2215 A procedural crime drama primarily focusing on the military.
And blue bloods
NCIS is just awesome! (Still missing Kate and ziva)
Even crazier when you remember that NCIS is a spin off of JAG, which ran ten seasons by itself. Then, not only are JAG and all the NCIS in the same universe, but so are Hawaii 5-O, MacGyver, and Magnum PI. 1996-present. That's a monster universe!
Only 40, and I already go "yep, we don't wear those uniforms anymore. We don't have those aircraft. We don't use those ships now" when watching JAG or early NCIS.
Dexter, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones all on at once. Golden Era
Don’t forget about The Walking Dead
Well the Golden Era was really in the 20th Century when people gathered together to watch TV at a specific time -- before streaming, before DVR's, before even VCR's.
For me it is 2008, Dexter, Breaking, Mentalist, Two and half, Big bang, about Mentalist I was very active on forums, it is last tv show where I guessing who is Red John, give advice or suggestions....
Golden era: The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire, all in their peaks together.
Golden era were the 90´ , x-files, Stargate, Star trek tng,ds9 and voyager, hercules, xena
Without any excuses he posted a video directly
He dont speak for him self he let the content speak for him
Great thing
Thanks for returning to the stats community. You’ve given our community a lot and I appreciate it. Me and many others make statistics like this because of how cool these visualisations are.
Any time!
The numbers from 1986 ranged from 65,000,000 to 34,000,000. Compare that to 2022 at 25,000,000 to 15,000,000. And that was with 100,000,000 fewer people in the US. That tells me there are many more options and it's harder and harder to get eyeballs on your show. It makes me kinda of miss the good old days when everyone watched the same shows and could talk about them. It was part of the glue that kept the country together. Now, people have less and less in common. But great video as always.
Great observation… seems like nowadays someone asks me if I seen a new tv show and I’m clueless I prefer 90s/2000s sitcoms/tv 📺
really refreshing to see you back, this exact same background music like your old videos brings so much nostalgia even though it's been only 2 years. keep it up :D
No it's 3 years. His last video was in December 2019.
Did anyone else smile when Game of Thrones jumped up there and battled it out with Big Bang Theory?
I am, because BBT is traaaasshhhh lol
@@briansolo Makes it even more surprising that Young Sheldon is so good imo
Nope. Just you, apparently.
I didn’t even expect The Big Bang Theory would make it up that high on the list, not that it’s a bad show
Two overrated shows, battling to be number one on a DOA year lineup? Hardly.
Season 2 to season 4 of House of the Dragon will make history ! Mark my words
Book 2 isnt even out bro
Lost interest when they ruined the show and changed half the actors. All the focus was on the princess who changes suddenly and the King who doesn’t change but is actually not great a character at all. Rings of Power was better.
@@xStanyyx they shot almost the entire 1st season off of 1 chapter in the book.
@@chriscraddock2867 how many chapter is there
Another show with tonnes of SEX that gets “critical acclaim”
Just watch a porno man 😂
Seriously, these shows are AIMED at COUPLES to get them off. Its like an acceptable way of getting porn to the masses. Then the audience all go round patting eachother on the back by exchanging in depth analysis on how good the production value is and the script and the genius directing etc
They’re just GETTING OFF together 😂 end OF
Dexter, the walking dead and Breaking bad are masterpieces.
Agree among others
All sucks 😂😂😂
I believe you. I watch a lot of entertainment and have seen The Walking Dead season 1 only of the 3 you have listed. We don't get the kind of audiences we used to.
I find it amazing how much tastes have changed, not to mention the effect streaming has on popularity speed, very interesting 🙂
Well I'm not too surprised that people no longer watch The Cosby show.
I knew that BBT was very popular but the fact that it was within the top 3 for so long (almost as long as its existence), is quite fascinating. It also immediately helped Young Sheldon to get a spot within the list here.
I absolutely loved TBBT but never got on with Young Sheldon, probably because Kaley was not in it. I was surprised that Friends only went to the top once, that was another of my favourite shows. A lot of those at the top I never watched.
@@honestchris7472 well, there are some shows that weren't in the top 5 for that long, even though they marked television history, like Friends, The Sopranos, or Breaking Bad. There are probably shows with more views, but less impact on the culture like those, for instance
@@AlexKaufman maybe it is because I don`t, or didn`t watch a lot of the ones that hit the top a lot, for instance, I never watched the Soprano`s and I never watched Breaking Bad either. Of course that does not mean that I thought that they were not worth watching, it is all about the hook, if the title does not inspire a person to watch it, then you never get into it but even so, quite a few programs that did have the hook turned out to be a waste of time, Hero`s, The Dome, The 100, lost and The Last of Us are three examples, each started good but then they made them into series and the writers struggled to keep them going, for all of these, one series would have been enough if they had a proper believable ending.
it's more sad. BBT sucks.
@@mangomariel well, that is your opinion, the wrong opinion but none the less it is yours, a great many millions loved it.
As a fantasy nerd, the success of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon brings a tear to my eye lol
It only shows people are sheep.
@@mightybitchy The shows are just incredibly well made (if you ignore the ending of GoT, which was basically a fatigue death). The first 6 seasons barely have any weaknesses, be it music, cinematography, writing, dialogue, acting, casting, costumes, CGI. It's all top class and couldn't really be achieved anymore since. House of the Dragon almost succeeded, but dropped in quality sadly in season 2 due to money cuts.
80s/90s/00s were rich with comedy and laughter. I was fortunate to grow up during this era.
Im watchin those shows now and beats all sitcoms of today
This has been very helpful. I see now why I stopped watching TV in the mid 90's.
yes almost nothing now actually has good plots, acting, or writing they are too busy making woke garbage now.
There is a serious lack of acknowledgement in the comments here for *Seinfeld*
When it ended it was at the height of it's popularity, with 51 million views. Before international viewing or streaming via the internet was possible. So that is 51 Million people, mostly just in America watching the last episode all at the same time on TV.
That record was broken only by one series: Game of Thrones.
An international series where the stats also include streaming that happened the week after release.
It's crazy, absolutely nuts how popular Seinfeld was. And no one is talking about it.
Yeah Seinfeld was everything in the mid to late 90's. Every Friday morning people would be talking about it. I'm surprised that The Office isn't anywhere on here. It was hilarious as well.
I had no idea Yellowstone was this popular, I definitely have to binge watch it.
Dude...it's magic 🤌
It's awesome. Think Game of Thrones in the modern-day American West.
It's good, but they really REALLY draw it out to an annoying degree.
Nice! I love that the top is like 50M and how NCIS just stays in the top 10, like people are truly addicted to that junk (my dad is one of them).
props to you for compiling all the streaming, TV viewership estimates, and pirating data! glad to have you back!
That show honestly kinda peaked a decade ago. It was genuinely great for a good stretch there, but at this point I feel like itself become that thing people watch because sunk cost.
@@Tyler_W its kinda like the simpsons honestly, pretty good for a few years and then goes to shit.
Big respect to NCIS for being in the top 10 since 2003 and top 3 since 2009 geez
Who are these people watching NCIS?!?!
ive never had any interest in a detective show. crazy how many people seem to love it.
@@ReRe-yl6dq It was really good for a really long time... But anything thats been on air for almost 20 years inevitably gets boring.
I'm surprised too, I guess it was the corny nature mixed the seriousness that kept it interesting for long time. Versus CSI which was pure serious.
@@eggstube My parents love it! So... boomers?
Your comeback this time is one of the greatest comebacks in youtube history. welcome back!
Hey quick question, but is there a website where you got this data? Besides something like Wikipedia?
There's no one source.
NCIS really killing it!
Just when we needed them most, they returned to us!
Seeing NCIS at the top during it’s prime years brings a tear to my eyes
House M.D. truly deserved first spot. Such an amazing show
I’m surprised by two things: I knew NCIS was popular, but didn’t realize it was quite so strong for so long
I really thought Stranger Things would have been more impressive ratings wise based on the social hype around it
Yes to Stranger Things
FINALLY 🥰🥰🥰 Welcome back data is beautiful 😉
I think it is amazing to see that there are specific shows like Wandavision which are huge for a specific amount of time and then there is NCIS: in this Top 10 since 2013 and still not even close to lose viewers. They do many things the right way for a long time already..
Who tf watches NCIS tho lol… I’ve never heard anyone say “oh you catch that new NCIS episode😂”
@@duffal0 it seems as if many people still do watch it.. and here in Germany I do know a lot of people who do 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah the paid limited series come in and dominate but NCIS stayed steady. I’ve never seen it nor do I know anyone that watches it but it must be doing something right. I’ll probably find out in reruns like Frazier lol
I binged NCIS until Season 9. Too many OG's started leaving. It wasn't the same..
@@rabeab8116 yeah... Just think about the attention span and levels of interesting these people who enjoy this crap can offer and you just go yuck
HES BACK WHEN WE NEEDED HIM MOST
Strong showing from Blue Bloods since its debut. Love that show.
Yeah that was the show that surprised me the most. I never expected it to be top 5 for so long, or to even reach top 3 for periods of time.
Just discovered this channel. Absolutely love it!
This true NCIS still sticks at the tops
They found a winning formula and stuck to it.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial
I feel like they’ll just keep going until Mark Harmon’s gone. Then they’ll recast and everyone will stop watching and they’ll finally stop making it and only show re-runs.
@@hornetf18 mark Harmon's got replace recent
@@WilliamHollinger2019
wut
@@hornetf18 Mark Harmon left the show fall of 2021
I grew up watching Saved by the Bell, Family Matters, Growing Pains, and Full House. I’m surprised some of these shows are not as popular as I thought they were!
A lot of great shows around.
Saved by the Bell originally aired Saturday mornings. And it may have been popular enough to get a reboot on a streaming service, it was cancelled after one or two seasons on Peacock.
Full House did appear in the top ten at one point
Not sure whether SbtB did but I think it was more of a kids' show than one that appealed as broadly as most top ten shows do?
Yea, who would have thought Roseanne would be at the top? I would have thought Full House for sure. But maybe that was just more for kids.
They WERE popular.. but popularity was different back in the day.. there was more quality content and TV was the only real form of entertainment.. no youtube, no internet... so people watched almost all shows or atleast watched more shows than they do now... so the overall viewing numbers were far more distributed than the concentrated burst numbers you see now for shows like Wandavision or Mandalorian...
Honestly surprised no 90s Trek is in this list. Some of the best TV ever made, especially Deep Space 9.
Star-Trek usually was in the top 4 or 5 for it's time slot and around 20 for overall weekly numbers.
Yeah, thinking the same thing.
it's an extremely narrow audience, and tbh, 90s star trek shows are NOT great.
@@TJMiton I respect your opinion even though it's wrong and you've clearly never watched them
@@adscott27 Next Generation and Deep Space 9 were awesome. Deep Space 9 was important for showing tv executives that people would indeed watch multi-episode long arcs on tv (as opposed to episodic shows), it paved the way for future shows like GoT.
I expected a couple of shows to be ranked WAY higher on this list:
- Columbo
- A-Team
- Baywatch
- Knight Rider
- Married... with children
- Star Trek - TNG, DS9 & VOY
- Buffy
- South Park
- King of Queens
- How I met your mother (like, srsly WTF?!? I expected this to be #1 at some point)
- Stranger Things
Some of those weren't even on that list oO
All fringe shows
That 70s show.
Cobra Kai.
Martin.
Not ever on the list.
Interesting how you see the culture changes with the popularity of the shows.
Agree
Surprised Friends and especially Fresh Prince of Bel Air didn't top the US rankings in the '90s... Because over here in the UK, Friends and Fresh Prince were the biggest US sitcoms we watched in the '90s.
If that's how many views season 1 of HotD got them imagine e the amount that the later seasons will get... It's gonna break records
It won't break records. Not even close.
@@DG-sc1yustfu it will😂
Television was much more popular back in the 80s-90s. The internet took its place nowadays.
Agree.
this was COOL! thank you❤❤❤
Welcome!!
Glad you are back! :)
Now I’m hearing this new Netflix show ‘Wednesday’ is dominating..probably would be the next one on top of list.
The Last of Us is the next one.
I was really surprised that Breaking Bad was never number 1. Pretty much everyone I talk to considers it the greatest show of all time.
According to Bob Odenkirk when the show first came on alot of people didn't watch until season 4 on Netflix then the final season really hit off.
That would be Sopranos
Please Data owl. Don't leave us again. It was cold and dark without you.
Damn.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial XD
Yes. Friends, TBBT, and House MD 🔥🔥🔥
His show might not have been on this list but never forget that Al Bundy scored 4 td's in a single game.
Good to have you back.
Had to laugh when The Rings of Power popped up for a split second on the bottom and then disappeared, lol
same lol
You can really see when new seasons of streaming shows drop. They jump up in ratings quick and then drop off just as quickly after everyone has binged the season.
Yep.
Interesting as always. Some of these 80s shows were fun.
Love that Rings of Power showed up for a split second then fell through the floor.
What a disappointment that show is.
i missed you welcome back
Thanks man
NBC and CBS still reigning since the 80's, even with streaming platforms on fire these days... Insane.
Boomers.
The biggest comeback in Ranking's History!
Loved to see Seinfeld and Two and a Half Men holding its own. Also Breaking Bad, but it should've been higher for a longer time. I'm sad that Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 version) didn't make the ranking. It's the best sci-fi show of all time to me.
Love that quarantine spike!
Roseanne went downhill when it was about Roseanne. Connors winning the lottery was the shark jump moment.
NCIS is the type of show you watch when you jump on the sofa for a quick pause
Legends never die
I missed this channel 😭
Same 🥺😖🙏
I swear to god, if I am ever monstrously rich, I am going to buy the rights to Friends, edit out all the laugh tracks, and re-release it so I can show the world just how un-fucking-funny that show truly is.
The way Squid Games just said "Excuse me, I have some stories to tell" and then dipped 😂😂😂😂
The way squid game went to the top , wow
And only by word of mouth
This is amazing! 😊I loved how Game of Thrones, NCIS, and Bing Bang Theory fought for the top spot for long while. Would be nice if you can make a mini version of the last few years. I know friends who would love this but won't sit through a 10-min video 😄
They can skip to the end :)
Just tell them it feels like three minutes 😉
That's sad that they won't sit through a 10 minute video.
The updated top 10 list was great, but I would love to see a top 15 or top 20.
It would be challenging to view more than a Top 10 list on a phone. However it would be so cool to see. for example, Orange Is The New Black was a favorite show of mine that barely cracked the top ten but IMO was top 20 for a long time. A top 20 list would have more streaming content on it from the mid 90s to present… it would be cool to see. Thanks for the great top 10 video
There are proper Computers to watch videos with and there are tablets, so this would be no problem. A phone is for using with Telegram, Signal, using webradio and calling other people, there is no need to watch videos on a 8cm screen if there are loads of sensible other options.
@@deineroehrebecause a phone is a miniature version of those, and has more day to day use than the others for the reasons you stated a phone is used for, so why carry 2-3 devices when you can have all in one?
Nice you’re back
NCIS must be the most consistently popular show ever. Almost two decades at or near the top.
Shocked to see that neither "The Office" or "The Wire" even enter the top 10 for as widely acclaimed they were then and still are today.
They are popular. Just never in top ten.
didnt know the mandalorian was THAT popular
I'm shocked at the staying power of NCIS
We all :)
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this info, and in such a visually compelling format.
These
Are
FUN TO WATCH! Thanks!
That's why we love the 80's. A time before the media turned television into a playground for sociopaths.
Super well done. It was timed well enough I felt like I got a lot out of it.
Quite a few surprises in there. For instance, I had no clue NCIS was that popular, that thing is a power house. I also found it interesting no Marvel Disney+ shows cracked this list after Loki.
I thought streaming services kept their data pretty private. It’s interesting to see them stacked with national broadcasts.
Wow, i loved this visual. Im now gonna do an NCIS run. I also love the NCIS origins thats recently new.
Look forward to your next vida
Awesome, thank you!
So glad you're back! Still drives me crazy that bar color is just random and not used to convey more information. Could show networks, or genre, or something. Please!
I played with it a lot. Some graphs just get too messy.
Agreed, networks would be an excellent use of color!
Maybe have the bar color go grey when a show's run ends (to make it clear why it's dropping down through the chart)?
Is this truly worldwide? Or just for the US?
I've never heard of most of the current shows...
Worldwide shows but based on US viewership.
@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial i think you should do worldwide, if thats possible.
Would be interesting to see total viewership by network over time.
Loved that the data starts going a bit chaotic when streaming series were introduced.
The staying power of NCIS is impressive. I don't watch much TV but I have watched most of that show. Nothing else has that level of viewers and longevity.
It speaks more to dearth of interesting new programming on cable TV. Old folks who still cling to cable have little else to watch.
Big bang theory held its own against GOT for a good 4-5 years
Yet lots of people gave it hate for many years guess they were doing something right.😂
@aaronmontane6479 very strange the hate it got. I don't understand it tbh. I enjoyed it.