We already knew that ‘The house of the dragon’ was a great success. HBO Max itself was in charge of making it clear after the historic audience data for its first episode, but now Variety has revealed what the average audience for each episode in the United States taking into account the viewings through all platforms, and the spectacular figure: 29 million viewers.
Impressive success
The data in itself is quite striking, but a good way to better understand what it represents is to compare it with the averages made by ‘Game of Thrones’, a series that it only surpassed that average audience during its last two seasons:
- Season 1: 9.3 million viewers on average
- Season 2: 11.6 million
- Season 3: 14.4 million
- Season 4: 19.1 million
- Season 5: 20.2 million
- Season 6: 25.7 million
- Season 7: 32.8 million
- Season 8: 46 million
Obviously, ‘The house of the dragon’ has in its favor that it had an audience already interested in this universe created by George R.R. Martin and a world in which streaming has gained much more relevance, but that does not mean that its success is impressive.
Also, ‘House of the Dragon’ following has stabilized with a slight upward trend, since the fifth episode has grown by 3% compared to the fourth, while the latter improved by 5% the data of the third. It is not a growth as spectacular as the one that ‘Game of Thrones’ was having at the time, but it is that it starts from a much higher point.
Now it will be necessary to see if the important change that the series will undergo in its sixth episode will not affect its popularity in some way. Personally I’m going to miss a lot Milly Alcock and Emily Careybut I hope that Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke They don’t detract from the adult versions of Rhaenyra and Alicent.
By the way, if anyone is now thinking that ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ had 25 million during its first episode alone, don’t forget that that was worldwide audience and ‘The house of the dragon’ refers only to the United States.