Nielsen celebrated Star Wars Day 2026 with a breakdown of the galaxy-sized magnitude of contented fans streamed for past year's May the 4th festivities.
The amusement analytics institution published a heavy dive into a postulation far, acold distant with a station connected its website today. While this year's apical 10 database is astir apt already filled with appearances from Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, which aired its Season 1 finale today, the apical 10 most-streamed Star Wars titles for May 4, 2025, really saw Andor instrumentality the apical spot.
It makes sense, arsenic Andor was actively airing caller episodes of its 2nd and last play astir this aforesaid clip past year. Following the Rogue One prequel amusement was A New Hope, past The Phantom Menace, and The Empire Strikes Back, with Revenge of the Sith rounding retired the apical five. You tin spot Nielsen's afloat breakdown successful the graphic below.
It should travel arsenic nary astonishment to perceive Star Wars fans are inactive showing up to ticker its galore shows and movies astir 50 years aft the archetypal movie premiered, but adjacent during a comparatively dilatory twelvemonth for the franchise, U.S audiences inactive racked up 33 cardinal minutes watched successful 2025 alone. That included each Star Wars contented crossed linear TV and streaming, with Disney+, which offers astir each task the bid has ever released, being the fig 1 tract for fans to crook to.
Nielsen said 44.2% of each Star Wars contented viewed successful 2025 took the signifier of live-action movies, with live-action series, again led by Andor with 7.4 cardinal minutes of viewing, falling down that astatine 38.9%. Animated spinoffs accounted for 16.8% of the contented watched, with documentaries, which see projects similar Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy, made up conscionable 0.2%.
Finally, Nielsen's roundup ends with a breakdown for the property groups that aligned with circumstantial projects. Millennials and Gen X, for example, stuck by Andor, portion Baby Boomers and Gen Alpha tuned successful to ticker The Mandalorian.
For May the 4th 2026, IGN is celebrating Star Wars Day with sum for everything from Darth Maul to The Mandalorian and Grogu. You tin articulation successful by checking retired our ranking of each of the Star Wars movies from champion to worst and our ranking of the franchise's apical 10 video games.
Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

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