Friends Streaming On Max Hit All-Time High In Wake Of Matthew Perry's Passing

In the wake of Matthew Perry's passing, the streaming of Friends on Max hit an all-time high, according to Nielsen's latest U.S. ranking of streaming content.

Friends landed at No. 4 on Nielsen's overall streaming chart for the week of Oct. 30 — trailing only Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Grey's Anatomy and Suits — with 860 million viewing minutes, the largest viewing total for the NBC sitcom since it moved to Max from Netflix. (Friends' previous Nielsen chart high was 737 million minutes viewed, during the week of Dec. 5, 2022).

Nielsen also noted that two-thirds of the Friends audience for the week of Oct. 30 was under the age 35, "many of which were not even born when the show premiered in September 1994."

Over on Nielsen's U.S. ranking of streaming originals for the week of Oct. 30, Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See made its chart debut in the No. 1 spot with 720 million minutes viewed across four episodes.

It was followed by Netflix's Fall of the House of Usher (565 million minutes viewed/eight episodes), Disney+'s Loki (560 million minutes/11 available episodes), Netflix's Life on Our Planet (531 million minutes/eiht episodes) and Netflix's Bodies (down three spots with 403 million minutes/eight episodes).

Rounding out the Top 10 originals for the week of Oct. 30 were The Great British Baking Show on Netflix, Netflix's Selling Sunset, Netflix's Till Murder Do Us Part, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show and Disney+/Hulu's Goosebumps.

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