These movies have been the most popular so far this year on Netflix.
Today, Shadow and Bone became the first show this year to spend its first eight days atop the Top 10 charts, and just the fourth show ever to do so. The program’s dominance came during a period when several other shows—such as The Baker and the Beauty and The Circle —are in the midst of epic Netflix runs. But was the performance enough to make the yearly popularity charts? For those unaware, I track each show’s performance on Netflix to form these yearly charts. Each day, I record where a program ranks on the Top 10. I then assign points accordingly, and track each show’s score over the course of the year. So what do the 2021 charts look like this week? As of May1, these have been the 25 most popular shows on Netflix this year (the bolded selections are newcomers to this list): Click here if you’d like to see the 2021 movie rankings as well. As you can see, Shadow and Bone couldn’t quite make the list this week. But with 80 points under its belt already, you can full expect the series to capture one of the top 20 positions by next Saturday.
