Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 1 breaks Disney+ viewership record
Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians has broken streaming records. The new fantasy television series is based on Rick Riordan's book series of the same name.
The new fantasy television series is based on Rick Riordan's book series of the same name. Greek mythology inspired the story of 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who learns he is the son of the god Poseidon.
He is then taken to train at Camp Half-Blood and sets out with his friends, the satyr Grover (Aryan Simhadri) and Athena's daughter Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries), to find Master Bolt, the thief of Zeus.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 1 onDisney+ debuted to 572 million minutes of viewing during its first week on the Nielsen streaming chart, placing it at number four overall for the week of December, according to TVLine.
My Life with the Walter Boys and The Crown. Because of this, it was the most watched premiere week for a Disney+ series that isn't related to Marvel or Star Wars since Nielsen began tracking streaming in March 2020.
With 553 million minutes, Goosebumps was the only other such series to even make it into the Top 10 in its first week of release.
With the exception of Walker Scobell, who played with Ryan Reynolds in 2022's The Adam Project, the most of the Percy Jackson ensemble consists of relative unknowns, but despite this, the show is fiercely competing with Disney+ in all categories.
Indeed, Ahsoka is the only live-action program debut that outperformed Percy Jackson during the whole of 2023 (until December 18). In its first week of release, the Star Wars spinoff series received 829 million hours of streaming time.
Even though Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are the streamer's main franchises, Marvel's 2023 debuts were completely outclassed by Percy Jackson. In fact, Hawkeye, which debuted in November 2021, was the most recent MCU series to rank higher than Percy Jackson in its first week of release.