Whereas Nielsen remains to be the gold normal on the subject of streaming charts, primarily based on their lengthy historical past of offering trade normal scores for traditional community television, there are a number of new gamers who even have their very own charts. There’s Samba TV, who solely collect information from customers who use their app, then there’s Luminate, a considerably extra critical participant, who, like Nielsen, attempt to gauge total viewership by analyzing numerous sources, not simply anybody app.
And whereas Nielsen all the time have a 4 week delay, so the primary outcomes for Skeleton Crew ought to come very late December, Luminate launch their charts in a way more well timed trend, i.e. normally on late Friday/early Saturday with the information for the earlier 7 days. Which implies Luminate already has information for the Skeleton Crew debut from earlier this week.
And it doesn’t look all too good for the brand new Star Wars present. Click on via for extra.
Can he entice an viewers subsequent week?
Because the headline already tells you Skeleton Crew is a no-show on the Luminate high 10 streaming charts for unique reveals. The quantity 10 present is The Day of the Jackal with 332.3 million minutes streamed.
Which implies we are able to solely guess how Skeleton Crew carried out, we solely understand it should have had fewer than 332.3 million minutes.
To match issues The Acolyte was on the Luminate charts in week 1, however with a measly 210 million minutes. In week 2 this quantity rose to 380.5 million minutes.
So it’s completely attainable that many individuals will meet up with the present solely this weekend and that subsequent week the numbers will probably be a lot improved.
In fact there may be additionally the chance that Skeleton Crew could have its very personal Solo: A Star Wars Story second. That film (amongst different causes) crashed and burned additionally because of the The Final Jedi backlash. And The Acolyte actually angered many followers and should have even turned them away from Star Wars.
On the plus facet, and as an indication of hope for Skeleton Crew, the reception by each followers and the same old YouTube of us who discuss all issues Star Wars has been nearly universally optimistic, the place nearly everybody says it’s simply “good enjoyable”. So possibly the optimistic phrase of mouth will persuade extra individuals to tune in.
But when not… Lucasfilm made their very own mattress and will Skeleton Crew fail, regardless of a principally optimistic response by the individuals who truly watch it, they solely have themselves in charge.
Then again there may nonetheless be a considerably completely happy ending for a extremely dangerous 2024 for Lucasfilm ought to Skeleton Crew discover extra viewers within the subsequent weeks. We are going to know extra subsequent Saturday! I’ll hold you up to date, as normal.
