{"id":2123202,"date":"2026-09-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123202"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:00:00","slug":"gta-6-extended-look-tops-netflix-top-10-chart-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123202","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Extended Look Tops Netflix Top 10 Chart in First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look dominated Netflix’s top 10 chart in its first week (in the English Film category), racking up 31.1 million views in its first week, beating the second-place film on the list, the Robert DeNiro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan thriller The Whisper Man<\/a>, which pulled in 23.2 million views. Worth noting is that GTA 6 handily beat its Netflix competition despite not debuting until Thursday. The reporting period was from August 24-30. All data comes directly from Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The streamer notes that, “Netflix counts a ‘view’ as one full-runtime equivalent of watch time. Netflix defines a view as the total hours viewed for a title divided by its runtime. So one household watching a 27-minute video twice looks the same in Netflix’s math as two households each watching it once.” They no doubt mention this since YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts to play, and so far, on Rockstar’s official YouTube channel<\/a>, the GTA 6 Extended Look has 17 million views as of 12pm PT when this story published.<\/p>\n

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On the TV side, Death of the Pastor’s Wife (19m views) took the top spot on last week’s Netflix Top 10, and Facing El Chapo (20.7m views) topped the non-English film category.<\/p>\n

And as it turns out, Rockstar approached Netflix<\/a> about this Extended Look premiere, not the other way around. For a whole lot more on GTA 6, check out our report<\/a> of what we got to see at Rockstar North that wasn’t on Netflix, why significant others are already mad<\/a> about Rockstar’s imminent crime epic, confirmation on a lack of microtransactions<\/a> at launch, 99 new details<\/a> we spotted in the extended look, and so much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of IGN’s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<\/a>, and a co-host of <\/em>Next-Gen Console Watch<\/a>. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em>@DMC_Ryan<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n

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Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look dominated Netflix’s top 10 chart in its first week (in the English Film category), racking up 31.1 million views in its first week, beating the second-place film on the list, the Robert DeNiro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan thriller The Whisper Man<\/a>, which pulled in 23.2 million views. Worth noting is that GTA 6 handily beat its Netflix competition despite not debuting until Thursday. The reporting period was from August 24-30. All data comes directly from Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The streamer notes that, “Netflix counts a ‘view’ as one full-runtime equivalent of watch time. Netflix defines a view as the total hours viewed for a title divided by its runtime. So one household watching a 27-minute video twice looks the same in Netflix’s math as two households each watching it once.” They no doubt mention this since YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts to play, and so far, on Rockstar’s official YouTube channel<\/a>, the GTA 6 Extended Look has 17 million views as of 12pm PT when this story published.<\/p>\n

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On the TV side, Death of the Pastor’s Wife (19m views) took the top spot on last week’s Netflix Top 10, and Facing El Chapo (20.7m views) topped the non-English film category.<\/p>\n

And as it turns out, Rockstar approached Netflix<\/a> about this Extended Look premiere, not the other way around. For a whole lot more on GTA 6, check out our report<\/a> of what we got to see at Rockstar North that wasn’t on Netflix, why significant others are already mad<\/a> about Rockstar’s imminent crime epic, confirmation on a lack of microtransactions<\/a> at launch, 99 new details<\/a> we spotted in the extended look, and so much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of IGN’s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<\/a>, and a co-host of <\/em>Next-Gen Console Watch<\/a>. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em>@DMC_Ryan<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look dominated Netflix’s top 10 chart in its first week (in the English Film category), racking up 31.1 million views in its first week, beating the second-place film on the list, the Robert DeNiro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan thriller The Whisper Man, which pulled in 23.2 million views. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,243],"class_list":["post-2123202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-ign-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}