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Netflix’s Lupin is its most popular original show in more than a year
Netflix‘s latest hit show (at least, according to Netflix) is Lupin, a French-language heist series pulling in reported audience numbers unseen for a Netflix original show since The Witcher in December 2019. Lupin‘s appeal is crossing language barriers, too, seeming to draw in more viewership than La Casa de Papel. That Spanish-language program, titled Money Heist for English-speaking audiences, previously reigned as Netflix’s biggest non-English-language show.
Netflix said Tuesday that it projects Lupin will be watched by more than 70 million accounts within its first four weeks of release. To put that in context, The Witcher — Netflix’s most-watched original series since the company started reporting these stats — hit 76 million accounts. The fourth season of La Casa de Papel was watched by roughly 65 million accounts in its first four weeks, the company projected at the time. (We can’t compare Lupin’s audience with earlier Netflix shows that were released before late 2019, likes its retro sci-fi megahit Stranger Things. That’s when Netflix switched its measurement metric, so the comparisons aren’t apples-to-apples.)
Though Lupin is a French-language show, it has been topping popularity rankings in countries with different native languages. It has hit No. 2 on the company’s US popularity charts, Netflix said, and it has ranked No. 1 in dozens of other countries including Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Vietnam and the Philippines. (Presumably, France too.)
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