Since Netflix established its top 10 list in February 2020, I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet tracking the position of movies in the US for one and both days. It is desirable to see which films have lasted the longest and been most sensible. on the list more than any other. There have been some wonderful defining moments over the years, from Red Notice to The Mitchells vs. The Machines, from Don’t Look Up to Glass Onion, from The Adam Project to Spenser. Confidencial. And 2024 has also seen its fair share of dominant films, some of which are among the most productive performances ever in Netflix’s Top 10. So which movies dominated the most this year?
Fortunately, since I’ve been tracking one and both movies on Netflix’s Top 10 list for a day, I’ve kept a scoring formula that ranks movies based on their performance. The calculation is simple: a first position earns ten points, a second position earns nine points, up to a tenth position that earns one point. Although Netflix provides viewership numbers and viewing hours for many movies, I think my approach offers some advantages. Several films will climb the charts by being dominant for a short period of time, while others will suffer and remain consistently applicable, two points that are not necessarily taken into account in Netflix’s weekly report. In fact, I think my approach allows us to better perceive which films dominated the zeitgeist over the course of an entire season. That’s why I would like to talk about those effects here in this article.
The following are the 25 movies that garnered maximum numbers in December. May 14, 2024 (I will update this article if new movies appear on the list before the end of the year. ) You’ll see a clear winner at the top of the list, followed by what looks like a year of more general competition:
As with most years, this list is largely animated-driven. Starting with what has become the best-performing Netflix movie of all time, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, whose score of 1,145 numbers at most doubles that of Shrek, which is in second place, with 632 numbers. While the film premiered on Netflix in December 2023, the film’s dominance in the Top 10 continued through 2024, as the Super Mario Bros. movie has appeared on the list 249 times this year (277 total if you count last year). In total, it almost tripled the second-highest number of appearances in this year’s Top 10, which belonged to the Minions with 89.
The other top animated films were Trolls Band Together, which appeared in the Top 10 a total of 71 times, Shrek, which made the list 84 times out of a total of 132 times in 2024, and Sing, which came in second. the best streak of the year with 56 consecutive days on the charts (only the 122-day streak of the Super Mario Bros. movie). Other notable titles were The Secret Life of Pets, which charted 38 times this year, and Home, which earned 31 days of its 117 days total in 2024.
As a father, it makes sense to me that animation would dominate the Top 10, given kids like to watch the same movies over and over. So let’s see how that top 25 would shake out if we excluded animation:
As you can see, the general points are getting closer and closer. Rebel Ridge is the only non-animated film that had a streak of 25 consecutive days in the Top 10 (it was on the charts for a total of 26 days) and had a streak of 8 consecutive days in the most sensible place. Then there’s Damsel, which might have been the most-watched non-animated film on Netflix in 2024 in terms of hours viewed, but it didn’t necessarily dominate the more sensible spots in the Top 10 like Rebel Ridge, Array, and the other big winner, The Union, did. tying with two other films, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Hit Man, for the longest streaks in the top position with 10 consecutive days.
Several of Netflix’s big winners this year weren’t produced by the streamer, with Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Madame Web and The Equalizer 3 all being part of the top seven spots. Interestingly, those movies didn’t spend as much time in the #1 position as movies like Anyone But You, The Little Things and Irish Wish, but spent more time on the charts overall, making the Top 10 list 23 times, 20 times and 19 times respectively.
You’ll notice Atlas is missing from this list, which is surprising considering that it was technically the third-most watched movies on Netflix in 2024 in terms of total hours viewed. Yet, despite kicking off its Netflix run with nine consecutive days on the charts, the Jennifer Lopez sci-fi vehicle fell off the Top 10 after just twelve days. So while the movie might have been technically more watched, it wasn’t advertised on Netflix’s Top 10 list for even half the time Rebel Ridge was. As of the moment, Atlas’ 105-point total barely cracks the top 50 movies of the year.
Compared to other years, 2024 is both an up and down year for Netflix’s Top 10. It was certainly an up year for animation, as movies like The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Shrek, Minions and The Boss Baby spent more time on the charts than animation has in past years, and as a result they currently all rank amongst the ten best lifetime performances on the Top 10.
However, this is not entirely the case with non-animated films. For example, Rebel Ridge’s 215-issue run is slightly ahead of the top 25 most sensible productions ever, surpassing other films like You People and The Unforgivable. However, if we exclude the animated films, Rebel Ridge comes in at number 15. However, over the years I have noticed that their non-animated films do much better, such as the 355 issues of Red Notice, the 340 issues of Glass Onion : A Knives Out Story and all 335 issues of Don’t Look Up. Simply put, no 2024 film has dominated the Top 10 for as many days as those giants.
As I said, I will continue to update this list as the year comes to a close. Currently, the only other major film to climb the charts is Our Little Secret, which lately has 136 issues and ranks 17th among non-animated films. But for now, this turns out to be a transparent review of the movies that made the top impression on Netflix’s Top 10 list in 2024.
As you can see, Carry-On rose to fifth position thanks to its historic year-end broadcast, although it would gain more numbers in the Top 10 than any other film released in 2024 on Netflix. And Our Little Secret little by little accumulated up to two hundred numbers in its 33 days of broadcast (the maximum projections in the Top 10 of any non-animated film in 2024).
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