Nielsen Says 15.8 Million People Watched the First Episode of Stranger Things 2 Last Weekend

That’s more than The Walking Dead’s Season 8 premiere a week earlier

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Nielsen released its first batch of viewership data about Netflix.

The never-before-publicly-shared data shows that the first episode of Stranger Things 2 drew a bigger audience than the Season 8 premiere of The Walking Dead, cable TV’s most-watched show a week earlier.

According to Nielsen’s SVOD Content Ratings, 15.8 million U.S. viewers watched the first episode of Stranger Things 2 over the first three days, including a whopping 11 million people in the 18-49 demo.

That puts it just above the live-plus-3 numbers for The Walking Dead Season 8 premiere on Oct.

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