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WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 27: Mark Wahlberg attends the Netflix Premiere Spenser Confidential … [+] at Westwood Village Theatre on February 27, 2020 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Netflix)
For years, Netflix was a mystery. Which shows were trending on the streaming application? Which movies were driving the most traffic? Those numbers could show us more about the patterns on Netflix (and streaming platforms in general) and reveal why Netflix chooses the movies and shows it chooses.
But everything changed with the introduction of the Top 10. Now, each and every day, we can see what’s trending up and down on Netflix. And it made me realize: now we can form an actual concrete, numeric tracking system to finally track Netflix’s streaming data just like we track box office data.
So yesterday I introduced that brand new system, for both movies and television shows. Basically, I went back through every single movie and show that’s appeared on Netflix’s Top 10 since the feature was introduced in late February. I then assigned values to each movie and show based on where they placed on the Top 10 each day. A project would get ten points for first place, nine points for second place, eight points for third place—and so on.
Because of that, I was able to find some surprising movie patterns. For instance, as much as 365 Days and Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods have been dominating conversation, it turns out that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has been the most viral movie on Netflix in the month of June. In fact, it just overtook The Help—a movie that started trending due to the nationwide protests regarding racial injustice and police brutality—to claim the No. 1 spot.
I find those patterns fascinating, and I can’t wait to start tracking that movement day by day, week by week, month by month. But with this research, I’ve also been able to ascertain which movies have trended the best over the entire course of the Top 10’s presence. With this number system, I was able to put together a grand list of 119 movies that have appeared on Netflix’s Top 10 feature.
Now I’m not going to list every single one of those movies here in this article. Several of the films—like Shaun of the Dead: Farmageddon, Armed Response and Fun with Dick and Jane—only appeared on the Top 10 for a short period of time. But several others have trended for several months and showed their worth on the streaming platform.
So here’s that overall list, which contains data provided by Netflix between February 27 and today (June 20). I’ll dig a bit into the data afterwards:
- The Angry Birds Movie 2 – 323 points
- Despicable Me – 297 points
- Spenser Confidential – 236 points
- The Wrong Missy – 187 points
- Angel Has Fallen – 182 points
- Extraction – 170 points
- The Willoughbys – 169 points
- Code 8 – 129 points
- Space Jam – 126 points
- Uncut Gems – 123 points
- The Platform – 117 points
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – 110 points
- 365 Days – 107 points
- Outbreak – 103 points
- The Help – 103 points
- Just Go With It – 102 points
- The Last Days of American Crime – 97 points
- Life As We Know It – 96 points
- Coffee & Kareem – 94 points
- John Henry – 93 points
I immediately spotted some major differences between the movie list and the television show list. The most glaring revelation is that Netflix-produced shows have dominated the charts—but that’s not so much the case for Netflix-produced movies. Only six Netflix movies appear in the top 20, as opposed to the 15 Netflix shows that appear in the top 20.
There seems to be a ton of value in investing in animated features. Movies like The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Despicable Me didn’t hold the No. 1 spot on the Top 10 very often, but they’ve trended consistently enough over the past several months that they’ve become the top two movies on all of Netflix.
Angry Birds had a nine-week stretch at No. 1 back in late February and early March, and appeared in the Top 10 all the way through the end of April.
Meanwhile, Despicable Me jumped onto the list in mid-April, when it spent six straight weeks in the top spot. It has remained semi-consistently on the Top 10 since, including six out of the past seven days.
The top Netflix-produced films were star-studded affairs like Spenser Confidential (a crime drama starring Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke), The Wrong Missy (a comedy featuring David Spade and Lauren Lapkus) and Extraction (a thriller headlined by Chris Hemsworth).
While each of those movies dominate the overall list, they don’t trend at the No. 1 spot as often as Netflix-produced shows do. For instance, Tiger King spent a total of 27 straight weeks in the No. 1 spot. Meanwhile, Extraction only owned that spot for six straight weeks, and The Wrong Missy for just nine weeks. Spenser Confidential was much more successful with its 18-week run—which is easily the longest streak for any film on Netflix since the Top 10 feature was introduced.
The last big film to note would be 365 Days, which is on a hot streak currently. The movie has owned the No. 1 spot for eight of the 11 days it has appeared on the Top 10 (the movie lost three days to Da 5 Bloods after Spike Lee’s film premiered). Today 365 Days jumped from No. 16 to No. 13 on the overall list, and will likely jump several more spots over the next week.
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