Two high-profile, big-budget fantasy series ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ started streaming around the same time on HBO Max / Disney+ Hotstar and the Amazon Prime Video OTT platforms, respectively. Because of the overlap, comparisons around various aspects of the shows like their entertainment quotient, production values and viewing stats, etc. became inevitable.
And now, both these ongoing premium shows ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ are once again competing against each other in the latest Nielsen’s top ten overall streaming titles list. Let’s find out who the winner is this time.
As per the Nielsen’s weekly overall top ten streaming chart (for August 29 to September 4 week), the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel ‘House of the Dragon’ has garnered 781 million minutes.
And as far as ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ is concerned, the series has attained a highly impressive 1.25 billion minutes for the same period, thereby surpassing ‘House of the Dragon’ by a significant margin. In fact, the parent series ‘Game of Thrones’ has found a renewed interest amongst viewers and is marginally ahead of ‘House of the Dragon’ and boasts of 792 million minutes of viewing.
Other titles on Nielsen’s overall top ten streaming list include the Netflix comedy film ‘Me Time’ (927 million minutes), ‘Stranger Things’ (667 million minutes), ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (674 million minutes), and ‘Echoes’ (627 million minutes), etc.
About the shows:
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel ‘The Lord of the Rings’, the epic fantasy series takes place thousands of years before the events of the book and Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’. The series would focus on the legends pertaining to major events that happened in the fabled Second Age of Middle Earth.
House of the Dragon – The series is based on George R. R. Martin’s 2018 fantasy novel ‘Fire & Blood’ and the goings-on takes place around two centuries before the events of ‘Game of Thrones’ and revolves around the beginning of the end of House Targaryen.