Love Island USA Tops July 4 Streaming With 1.9B Minutes
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- Love Island USA generated 1.9B minutes viewed to reclaim No. 1 on the Nielsen streaming charts for the third time in Season 8 and only the fourth time ever, with Season 8 totaling 8.7B minutes — up 26% (+1.8B minutes) versus the equivalent 2025 stretch.
- Harlan Coben's I Will Find You held second place with 1.1B minutes viewed despite a slight week-over-week dip, and has now crossed 1B minutes in each of its three weeks of availability despite having only eight episodes.
- Netflix claimed the other two of the week's four 1B-minute titles — Avatar: The Last Airbender and Worst Neighbor Ever — while also airing the streaming's overall top performer.
- Project Hail Mary debuted on Prime Video with 860M minutes in its first three days, a delayed-viewing win after hitting MGM+ on June 18 following a 90-day theatrical window.
- Paramount+'s Dutton Ranch captured 827M minutes in its finale week, bringing its total to over 6B minutes after charting in the Top 10 every week since its two-episode series premiere.
- House of the Dragon drove 912M minutes viewed across HBO and HBO Max during the same window.
- Independence Day (1996) landed in the Top 10 most-streamed films of the week for the third consecutive year with 331M minutes viewed — its highest Top 10 weekly total to date, suggesting an annual July 4 streaming tradition is forming.
Why it matters: The July 4 week shows streaming audiences diversifying beyond a single hit — four shows cleared 1B minutes and a 30-year-old sci-fi film posted its best Top 10 result yet. For Netflix, placing two originals alongside Love Island USA's reality dominance and a Coben adaptation reinforces its grip on the charts during a week when theatrical-to-streaming windows are also delivering measurable returns.
