Bluey tops US streaming charts in 2025 with 45.2bn minutes watched
Australian-made animated series Bluey was the most streamed show in the US for the second year in a row in 2025, topping Nielsen’s annual year-end streaming charts with 45.2bn minutes watched on Disney+, according to Nielsen. The 45.2bn minutes in 2025 was down from 55.62bn in 2024, and Nielsen notes Bluey comprises 154 episodes — most of them less than 10 minutes long.
Grey’s Anatomy ranked second for the second year in a row with 40.9bn minutes watched; Nielsen says that represents 455 episodes of about 40 minutes each. The continued dominance of both shows reflects a broader trend in streaming for “library series”, with nine of Nielsen’s top 10 made up of long-running shows with large back catalogues, including Family Guy, NCIS and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Netflix’s Stranger Things was the only original series to make the top 10, with just under 40bn minutes watched, buoyed by the release of its fifth and final season in November and December. Nielsen’s 2025 calendar ended on 28 December, meaning Stranger Things’s tally doesn’t include the series finale, which dropped on New Year’s Eve.
Besides Bluey, the only other children’s show to make the top 10 for 2025 was SpongeBob SquarePants. Bluey creator Joe Brumm revealed in 2024 he would be stepping away from the series, though he will write and direct the full-length movie adaptation due to hit cinemas in 2027.
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