Love Island USA pulled 1.94 billion viewing minutes on Peacock for the week of June 29 to July 5, 2026, reclaiming the top spot in Nielsen's weekly streaming rankings — just shy of the 1.97 billion minutes it set the week before, which stands as the series' best-ever figure (The Hollywood Reporter).

It was the third time Love Island USA reached No. 1 in its eighth season and only the fourth time ever on the Nielsen streaming charts, which measure U.S. viewing on television sets only — not phones, tablets or computers (Deadline). Season 8, which premiered June 2, has now accumulated 8.7 billion total viewing minutes, up about 26% (or 1.8 billion minutes) on the same point in 2025's run. Season 8 episodes alone accounted for roughly 94% of the show's total viewing in this interval.

Four TV titles crossed the one-billion-minute mark that week. Joining Love Island USA were three Netflix entries: the Harlan Coben thriller I Will Find You, the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the docuseries Worst Neighbor Ever, which tallied 1.1 billion, 1.1 billion and 1.03 billion minutes respectively (The Hollywood Reporter).

I Will Find You, an eight-episode series, has now topped one billion minutes in each of its first three weeks of release. Its latest figure represents a 56% drop from the previous week, a typical third-week decline as early viewers finish the run (Deadline).

On the film side, Prime Video's Project Hail Mary led the movie chart with 860 million minutes in its first three days on the platform. The film arrived on Prime Video on July 3 after a 90-day theatrical window — the standard gap between a film's cinema release and its streaming debut — having first played on the MGM+ cable channel from June 18 (Deadline).

Two other debuts caught the eye. Prime Video's Elle, a prequel to the Legally Blonde films, opened with 499 million minutes and landed at No. 7 among streaming originals. Amazon has already renewed it for a second season (Deadline). Netflix's Enola Holmes 3 drew 505 million minutes in its first week — well below the first-week figures of 1.17 billion for the 2020 original and 855 million for the 2022 sequel (The Hollywood Reporter).

Paramount+'s Dutton Ranch, a Yellowstone spinoff, closed out its first season with 827 million minutes, slightly under its season high of 840 million. Across its eight-week run the show totalled 6.04 billion minutes and charted in the Nielsen Top 10 every single week since its two-episode premiere (Deadline).

Hulu/FX's The Bear rose 14% week-over-week to 669 million minutes following the debut of its final season, while House of the Dragon drove 912 million minutes across HBO and HBO Max — falling just short of the billion-minute club (Deadline).

And in a quiet ritual of its own, the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day landed in the film Top 10 for the third straight July 4 holiday week, with 331 million minutes — its highest Top 10 total to date (Deadline).