What little data we get about the performance of WWE Raw on Netflix is here. It comes from the streamer itself via their Tudum website.
Tudum ranks Netflix’s Top 10 shows by weekly number of views, which it calculates by dividing the time all subscribers spent watching a program by its duration. The default is a global ranking, which is also the only one where Netflix shows its work (e.g. the numbers behind the ranking). You can view the Top 10 for each country Netflix is in, but that only gives you
a ranking, no numbers. Similar ranked lists are available for shows in English, one for shows in all other languages, and corresponding Top 10s for movies.
The latest Raw we’re getting Netflix’s numbers for discussing streamed live premiered on Dec. 22, but was taped the Friday before in Grand Rapids, Michigan — making it the first non-live Raw of the Netflix era. The episode featured Becky Lynch being attacked by ants (or tapping to a Maxxine Dupri ankle lock, depending on who you talk to) and a tag main event building to next month’s CM Punk/Bron Breakker World title match.
That was not enough to get Raw back into Netflix’s Global Top 10 during Christmas week, so we don’t know how views it had. We do know last week’s Raw had less than 3.2 million views, because that’s how many the tenth place show had (that tenth place show was Fireplace for Your Home: Crackling Birchwood Fireplace… and it sounds funny, but my father-in-law had that gimmick up last Thursday and it was on all day… so I’m actually surprised it didn’t have better numbers). Stranger Things 5 was back on top thanks to a batch of new episodes. It had 34.5 million views last week; all five seasons of Netflix’s home-grown juggernaut finished in the latest Global Top 10.
For the first time ever, Raw failed to finish among the Top Ten in the United States. WWE’s home market was likewise dominated by the gang from Hawkins (and the Upside Down). Crackling Birchwood Fireplace did not place in the U.S.
Netflix is tracking a week’s worth of viewing (Dec. 22-28, in this case), but we still check in with the Monday night television ratings to see how those might impact anyone who still strictly watches Raw live. Monday Night Football still rules the roost there, and ESPN says Dec. 22’s 49ers/Colts game was ”generated 19.8 million viewers… across ESPN, ABC, ESPN Deportes, ESPN2, the ESPN App, and for the first time ever (as a traditional NFL broadcast), on Disney+.“
We’ll keep tracking Raw’s “views” data here… when its in the global Top 10. Whatever we get about each week’s performance will be added to our regular rundown of Raw’s TUDUM-reported performance for each episode of the Netflix Era:
- Jan. 6, 2025 – 5.9 million views; ranked 4th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Jan. 13 – 3.7 million views; ranked 4th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Jan. 20 – 3.0 million views; ranked 7th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Jan. 27 – 2.9 million views; ranked 9th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Feb. 3 – 3.1 million views; ranked 7th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- Feb. 10 – 2.8 million views; ranked 8th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Feb. 17 – 2.8 million views; ranked 10th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Feb. 24 – 2.6 million views; ranked 8th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- March 3 – 3.1 million views; ranked 7th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- March 10 – 3 million views; ranked 6th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- March 17 – 3.1 million views; ranked 4th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- March 24 – 3 million views; ranked 4th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- March 31 – 2.9 million views; ranked 8th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- April 7 – 2.8 million views; ranked 10th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- April 14 – 2.9 million views; ranked 9th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- April 21 – 3.6 million views; ranked 5th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- April 28 – 3 million views; ranked 4th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- May 5 – 2.8 million views; ranked 4th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- May 12 – 2.7 million views; ranked 8th globally, 7th in the U.S.
- May 19 – 2.7 million views; ranked 9th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- May 26 – 2.6 million views; ranked 6th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- June 2 – 2.7 million views; ranked 8th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- June 9 – 2.9 million views; ranked 7th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- June 16 – 2.7 million views; ranked 9th globally, 4th in the U.S
- June 23 – 2.6 million views; ranked 4th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- June 30 – 2.5 million views; ranked 5th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- July 7 – 2.6 million views; ranked 6th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- July 14 – 2.7 million views; ranked 5th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- July 21 – 2.7 million views; ranked 5th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- July 28 – 2.7 million, ranked 8th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Aug. 4 – 3 million views, ranked 5th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Aug. 11 – 2.8 million views, ranked 6th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Aug. 18 – 2.8 million views, ranked 7th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Aug. 25 -2.6 million views; ranked 6th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Sept. 1 – 2.4 million views; ranked 8th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Sept. 8 – 2.6 million views; ranked 8th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Sept. 15 – 2.6 million views; ranked 7th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Sept. 22 – 2.3 million views; ranked 8th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Sept. 29 – 2.3 million views; ranked 8th globally, 7th in the U.S.
- Oct. 6 – 2.4 million views; ranked 9th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Oct. 13 – 2.4 million views; ranked 8th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Oct. 20 – 2.6 million views; ranked 6th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Oct. 27 – 2.3 million views; ranked 8th globally, 4th in the U.S.
- Nov. 3 – 2.4 million views; ranked 9th globally, 6th in the U.S.
- Nov. 10 – 2.8 million views; ranked 7th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- Nov. 17 – 3.1 million views; ranked 6th globally, 3rd in the U.S.
- Nov. 24 – unknown views total; did not rank globally, 9th in the U.S.
- Dec. 1 – unknown views total; did not rank globally, 9th in the U.S.
- Dec. 8 – 2.5 million views total; ranked 10th globally, 5th in the U.S.
- Dec. 15 – unknown views total; did not rank globally, 7th in the U.S.
- Dec. 22 – unknown views total; did not rank globally, did not rank in the U.S
