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How Netflix's Top 10 Works: Views, Hours and the 91-Day List

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Netflix publishes four weekly Top 10 lists and four all-time lists, and gives views, runtime and hours viewed for each title. This explainer shows how the columns fit together, what the data files contain and how DabPop reads them for Korean titles.

Data as of (files last modified November 3, 2026)

Illustration: the five Netflix Top 10 lists and data files, with what each covers and the fields it holds.
Netflix's Top 10 lists and data files, what each covers and its fields
No. List or file What it covers Period and size Fields Updated Source
1Weekly Top 10 listsFour lists a week, each of 10 titles: films and TV, English and non-EnglishMonday–Sunday weeks, e.g. Oct 19–25, 2026Rank, weeks on the list, views, runtime, hours viewedTudum pages45
2All-weeks global fileEvery weekly global list since the first published week279 weeks, Jul 4, 2021 to Nov 1, 2026 (11,160 rows)week, category, weekly_rank, show_title, season_title, weekly_hours_viewed, runtime, weekly_views, cumulative_weeks_in_top_10Last modified Tue Nov 3, 20261
3All-weeks countries fileWeekly Top 10 lists for each country94 countries, same weeks (519,640 rows)country_name, country_iso2, week, category (Films or TV only), weekly_rank, show_title, season_title, cumulative_weeks_in_top_10Last modified Tue Nov 3, 20262
4Most popular listsAll-time Top 10s, ranked on total views in a title's first 91 daysFour lists (films and TV, English and non-English)Rank, views, runtime, hours viewedTudum pages5
5Most popular fileThe same four all-time lists as data40 rows, 10 per listcategory, rank, show_title, season_title, hours_viewed_first_91_days, runtime, views_first_91_daysLast modified Tue Nov 3, 20263

Sizes and dates are from the three data files, which DabPop downloaded on November 8, 2026, and from the Tudum list pages opened on November 2, 2026.12345 Counts of weeks, rows and countries are DabPop's counts of those files. Netflix's own methodology page renders by script and couldn't be read here, so the definitions above come from the lists, files and footnotes themselves.

How it works

Lists

Four weekly lists, ten titles each

Netflix publishes its Top 10 as weekly lists that run Monday to Sunday (the page's current week was October 19–25, 2026). There are four lists: films and TV, each split into English and non-English, and each shows 10 titles.4 Korean-language titles sit in the non-English lists: in the data, Squid Game is a non-English TV title and The Great Flood a non-English film.13 Netflix adds that top 10 lists are available only in selected countries and territories and that some titles may not be available in every region.4

Columns

Views, runtime and hours viewed

Each row gives views, runtime and hours viewed.4 In the figures the three move together. The week ending December 28, 2025 for The Great Flood shows 60,100,000 hours viewed, a runtime of 1.8167 hours and 33,100,000 views, and 60.1 million divided by 1.8167 is about 33.1 million (DabPop's check). That is why DabPop describes Netflix's views figure as hours viewed divided by runtime, as other DabPop posts do.1 The file gives views only from the week ending June 18, 2023: 4,080 earlier rows have hours viewed but no views or runtime.1

Weeks

Weeks on the list

The files also carry a running count of weeks in the Top 10, cumulative_weeks_in_top_10. The Great Flood, for example, reached 7 by February 1, 2026, its last week on the non-English films list; it was No. 1 for its first four weeks and its biggest week was the one ending December 28, 2025.1 DabPop's most-watched Korean films on Netflix table uses these peaks and counts.

All-time

The all-time lists use the first 91 days

The "most popular" lists rank titles on total views in their first 91 days of release, not on any one week.5 In the non-English TV list, Squid Game holds the top three places by season: 265.2 million views for season 1, 192.6 million for season 2 and 145.8 million for season 3. The Great Flood is No. 5 on the non-English films list with 86.6 million views.3 DabPop compares the Squid Game seasons in Squid Game Seasons 1–3: By the Numbers.

Countries

Country lists differ from the global list

The country file covers 94 countries and splits titles only into films and TV, with no views or hours.2 The lists can differ from the global ones: in the week ending November 1, 2026, Lupin: Part 4 led the global non-English TV list, but it is not on South Korea's TV Top 10, which that week began with Doctor X: Mafia in White.12

Limits

What the numbers can't tell you

These are Netflix's own figures about Netflix viewing. They cover only titles in a list's top 10 for a week, and views are not a count of different viewers.14 Other services such as Disney+ and TVING publish no equivalent, so DabPop uses Nielsen Korea for domestic broadcast ratings (see How Nielsen Korea Ratings Work) and Netflix's data where a Korean title is on Netflix, as in its Korean reality shows in the global Top 10 ranking.

Sources

  1. Netflix Tudum, Global Top 10, all weeks (data file), weeks ending July 4, 2021 to November 1, 2026 (file last modified November 3, 2026), retrieved 2026-11-08.
  2. Netflix Tudum, Top 10 by country, all weeks (data file) (file last modified November 3, 2026), retrieved 2026-11-08.
  3. Netflix Tudum, Most popular (data file) (file last modified November 3, 2026), retrieved 2026-11-08.
  4. Netflix Tudum, Top 10 Non-English Movies on Netflix Right Now (global list for October 19–25, 2026, with its footnotes), retrieved 2026-11-02.
  5. Netflix Tudum, Most Popular Non-English Movies on Netflix of All Time ("Rankings based on total views in the first 91 days of release"), retrieved 2026-11-02.