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  • Netflix Viewers Watched 82.1 Million Hours of Sonic Prime In First Half of 2023

    Viewers like Prime as much as Gilmore Girls.
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    This week marks the release of Netflix' first "What We Watched" report, an effort to increase viewership transparency by publishing the total hours viewed of all series seasons and movies that passed 50,000 hours from January through June this year. As such, it's worth checking out how Sonic Prime did within Netflix' full slate of programs.

    I hope you're ready to jump into The Number Zone!

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    The only true Netflix exclusive on the list, Sonic Prime, only has Season 1 stats available since Season 2 was released shortly after the June cutoff for this report. However, in these six months, Sonic Prime was watched across 82.1 million hours. This doesn't quite pit Prime against Netflix' most popular dramas and thrillers, but it confidently ranks the series at about 137 on the entire list of over 18,000 seasons and movies.

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    Sonic Boom isn't available on Netflix in every region, but its two seasons did quite respectably. Viewers watched a collective 27.8 million hours of Season 1, and 26.1 million hours of Season 2. Ranking in this list gets a little messy due to hours only incrementing by the hundred-thousand, but this puts Season 1 somewhere in the 710s, and Season 2 in the 790s.

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    Sonic X is available on a number of services, including all three dubbed seasons on YouTube at time of writing, but the first two are currently on Netflix and seem to be doing okay for a series that's now [checks calendar] 20 years old. Season 1 was watched for 9.5 million hours (ranking in the 2100s), and Season 2 for 3.7 million hours (ranking in the 4200s or 4300s).

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    Bringing up the animated tail(s) is the DiC classic Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (which is also officially on YouTube), though oddly enough, only 20 episodes of the 60+ episode series are available on Netflix. Yet despite the limited run, this so-called Season 1 still racked up 1.5 million hours, ranking somewhere between the 6600s and 6800s.

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    Aaaaaaand finally, Paramount's Sonic series did appear on Netflix with limited availability in certain times and territories, and were each watched enough to chart. Sonic 1 got 300,000 hours, and Sonic 2 doubled it in every sense with 600,000.

    If you'd like to peruse the entire list to take in the stats or compare other series, Netflix has made the full spreadsheet available here to download.

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    castell-neath

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    Well, comparing this to other netflix figures released this week, it would seem Prime is doing pretty well and should get a season 3. Fingers crossed that its confirmed soon!

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    Spyx

    Sonic X will always be my favorite. I especially love how they did the adaptations from SA and SA2 in there. But Prime is pretty fun so far 

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    Red Hot Jack

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    2 hours ago, The Famous Sonic said:

    Sonic Boom season 2 needs to become available in more countries as well as Sonic X season 3.

    This! They are not available in my country at all... not that I'm watching X in 4kids version (it's already on youtube anyway). Boom s2 I would gladly rewatch if it was on my Netflix.

    Anyway, I read the article and seen the data, but I still have no idea if this is a good result for Prime, is it? Sounds like it...

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    GX -The Spindash-

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    3 hours ago, Red Hot Jack said:

    Anyway, I read the article and seen the data, but I still have no idea if this is a good result for Prime, is it? Sounds like it...

    Netflix is going to have their own analysis of cost vs. viewership, and I'm not about to speculate on how either relates to the actual length of a reported season. But it seems to be seated in the high end, but not the highest end, of their kids/family programming (the super-high-end is seemingly owned by CoComelon and Paw Patrol).

    Since this is the first report, we can't exactly chart its performance over time or the expected performance of Netflix originals, so for now, we can only broadly gesture at how it stacks up against the overall ecosystem.

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    4 hours ago, Spyx said:

    Sonic X will always be my favorite. I especially love how they did the adaptations from SA and SA2 in there. But Prime is pretty fun so far 

    Sonic X will always be my favorite too! I just wish it was easier to find the Japanese subtitled version, that's the best by far.

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    CalmCha0s

    Glad Sonic Prime is doing so well! The animation is amazing and I'm surprised at how well the story is so far. Sometimes huge plots like Prime's can get out of hand but I love the direction they're taking and really looking forward to Season 3. Sonic X has a special place in my heart and will likely always be my favorite, but Prime is fast approaching that #2 spot.

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    Endoian

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    I'm glad that Sonic Prime had those visits, I really like that Sonic is still seen like he was in the 90s, but they can also take advantage of other things, such as 2D animated series and movies of the same style.

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