‘Titans’ climbs to No. 1 on Parrot’s Digital Originals chart; Stranger Things is still #1

Stephanie Prange

November 21, 2022

HBO Max’s superhero series Titans climbed two spots to No. 2 on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals chart for the week ending Nov. 18.

The show recorded a 4% increase in demand – Parrot’s own metric used to measure the popularity of a show – 38.2 times the average demand. The show’s fourth season premiered on November 3.

But Netflix’s supernatural thriller Stranger Things remained No. 1 on the chart despite an 8% drop in demand. However, demand for the series was 68.3 times greater than the average series, which was good enough for fourth place on Parrot’s overall list of TV shows.

Disney+ Star Wars spin-off Andor climbed from No. 5 to No. 3 with a 37.7x increase in average demand after a 7% rise in demand as the series nears the end of its first season.

Netflix’s “The Crown” rose from No. 7 to No. 4. The show’s fifth season, in which a new cast explores the tumultuous lives of the British royal family in the 1990s, premiered on Nov. 9 with all 10 episodes. During the week, it increased demand expressions by 21%, and the average demand – by 37.6 times.

Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” dropped from No. 2 to No. 5 with a 9% drop in demand following its fifth season finale on Nov. 9, 36.7 times the demand of the average series.

Game of Thrones on HBO and streaming on HBO Max was the second most-watched TV show of the week (behind perennial favorite SpongeBob SquarePants). It dropped from the top spot last week.

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“Digital Original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the final season was first available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, or Disney+.

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Media Play News has teamed up with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States, based on a proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures the demand for TV content in a given market across a wide range of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and uploading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file-sharing sites. The results are compared to the average demand for TV shows of any kind in the market.