The Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness only recently lost its standing as the current most popular show on the streaming service to Illumination's Despicable Me. However, in its time at the top, Tiger King broke the record for the most minutes streamed for a show in one week, with over 5.3 billion minutes watched between March 23 and 29.
This stat comes from the Nielsen Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) ratings as put out by The Hollywood Reporter Friday. According to that same source, the extra "aftershow" episode The Tiger King and I had the best single-day audience numbers of any other episode in the series with an average 4.6 million viewers.
Nielsen, which tracks data for both Netflix and Amazon's streaming content, says nearly 170 billion minutes of content was streamed during the week of April 6 thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Netflix accounted for a third of the total in-part thanks to the success of Tiger King.
The documentary series has been so popular that not only has it been referenced in countless memes and video game recreations, but there is also a comic book adaptation apparently in the works.
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness is out now on Netflix.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter