Tim Burton's Wednesday breaks Netflix record

The Addams Family spin-off is the biggest English-language debut in the streaming service's history, knocking Stranger Things off the top block.

The Addams Family spin-off is the biggest English-language debut in the streaming service's history, knocking Stranger Things off the top block.

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, and now, they’re… breaking streaming records? Wednesday, Netflix’s new Addams Family spin-off, now holds the record for the biggest English-language debut in the streaming service’s history.

I mean, this comes as no real surprise, considering the goth-indebted dance scene from Episode 4's 'Woe What a Night' during the Rave'N dance that has taken TikTok by storm... 

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Wednesday 🦇 🎻🖤 Scream queen #JennaOrtega took inspiration from post-punk icon Siouxsie and the Banshees, new wave singer Lene Lovich, Bob Fosse’s ‘The Rich Man’s Frug’ and the original #AddamsFamily when choreographic her routine at Nevermore Academy’s Rav’N dance. #wednesday #siouxsieandthebanshees #postpunk #goth

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Viewers watched over 341.2 million hours of the first season of the Tim Burton-directed show in the first week, which was released on November 23. Stranger Things 4 previously held the title at 33m hours.

The current all-time record holder is South Korea’s Squid Game with 571.8M hours viewed in its first week on Netflix.

A still from the hit South Korean Netflix show, Squid Game.,

Wednesday notched a Top 10 place in all 93 countries that Netflix tracks, and sits at No.1 in 83 of them. According to Netflix, the show has been viewed by more than 50M households. 

As it stands, Stranger Things 4 holds the title for the most-watched Netflix English-language series in its first 28 days on the platform, with 1.35 billion hours viewed.  Only time will tell if Wednesday's supernatural powers are potent enough to dethrone it. 

The following shows are Netflix's most-watched series, based on the service's own reporting of total hours viewed in the first 28 days of each title's release.

Read our review of Wednesday  here