According to the data released by Nielsen,” Coming 2 America” became the most-streamed program for the second consecutive week. The report suggests that the viewers have watched around 770 million minutes in the first week of release.
Although the viewership dropped 45.5% from the first three days of streaming time, that’s around 1.413 billion minutes.
Eddie Murphy starred, the sequel to the 1988 ‘Coming to America’, is the talk of the town. Traditionally, the weekly streamed top 10 list is dominated by Netflix. But here, against all the odds, ‘Coming 2 America’ became the first Amazon Prime show to join the top 10 list.
Reportedly, “Coming 2 America” was the only non-Netflix program to make the Top 10 for the week of March 8-14.
According to the media measurement company, African American viewers accounted for 40% of the film’s audience. The reason behind an Afro-American dominated audience might be Eddie Murphy’s involvement or the movie’s fascinating theme.
‘Coming 2 America’: A sequel to ‘Coming to America’
Well, a question that begs a response is, Will the second installment do justice to the first one? According to the reviews received and the love movie has got, it seems like that Coming 2 America is living up to the viewers’ expectations.
Coming to America was undoubtedly a breath of fresh air in the 80s. The movie has a great plot, fun elements, and most importantly Eddie Murphy plays a pampered African Prince.
Now talking about the sequel to the above-mentioned movie, ‘Coming 2 America’ has broken records of online streaming.
There is no doubt that the story will be revolving around the African Prince of Zamunda, whose name is Prince Akeem. Interestingly, in this part, the African monarch learns that he has a long-lost son in the United States. This revelation is the reason he returns to America (watch the first part, if you didn’t get ‘return’). Anyways, he wants to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.
Coming 2 America stars Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Arsenio Hall, and Tracy Morgan. These stars made this movie vibrant and fun to watch with their exceptional performances.
Let’s come back to the top 10 list
“The premiere of ‘Coming 2 America’ has far exceeded any of our wildest expectations,” Jen Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. “It’s clear an entirely new generation of fans have joined the enormous loyal fanbase who already adored the magical world created by global phenom Eddie Murphy, the incredibly talented filmmaking team and the hilarious, all-star cast of existing and newly-cemented legends.” He added.
Following all the buzz ‘Coming 2 America’ has created, “Ginny & Georgia” came second for the second consecutive week.
Reportedly, viewership of the 10-episode Netflix drama-comedy has 722 million minutes. It came down 37.8 from the 1.161 billion minutes watched the previous week. Furthermore, “The Crown” again made it to the top 10 list after waiting for like 3 months. Since the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3, we haven’t seen it on the top. The reason for this might be some events surrounding the Royal Family. Every little happening drives viewership.
Conclusively, the top 10 programs of the week include:
- Coming 2 America
- Ginny & Georgia
- Criminal Minds
- Grey’s Anatomy
- CoCoMelon
- “The Crown” and “Good Girls” tying for sixth
- NCIS
- “Schitt’s Creek” and “Heartland”
