Andor Leads 2025 Viewing With 7.4 Billion Minutes
Andor led Star Wars live-action series viewing in 2025 with 7.4 billion minutes watched, giving the Disney+ series the clearest business signal in a year when Star Wars viewing topped 33 billion minutes across linear TV and streaming. Streaming supplied most of that total, and the live-action ranking put Andor ahead of the rest of the field.
The 7.4 billion-minute total also explains why Andor mattered beyond its own episode count: the final season pushed the show into Nielsen’s Original Top 10 for six straight weeks in spring 2025. For a franchise with nearly a dozen films and at least as many TV series, that kind of sustained viewing turned one title into a major share of the brand’s annual watch time.
May 4 and the 637 Million-Minute Spike
Nearly 637 million minutes of Star Wars content were streamed on May 4, 2025, and Andor led the titles drawing the most viewing that day. Tales of the Underworld launched on the same date and finished in the top 10 for May 4 viewing, showing how concentrated the franchise audience remained even on a single holiday-heavy streaming day.
The May 4 total also shows how the franchise’s audience behaved in 2025: one day could produce a huge burst of viewing, but the larger yearlong picture still belonged to Andor. That is the useful split for the business side of the library — a one-day surge can widen awareness, while a series with 7.4 billion minutes keeps the meter moving for months.
A New Hope Leads Films
The Star Wars films commanded the biggest share of viewing time in 2025, led by A New Hope, which posted the largest minute total among the movies. The Phantom Menace ranked second, while Rogue One: A Star Wars Story rounded out the top three.
Rogue One likely benefited from its direct connection to Andor, whose story leads into the film. That link matters because the series did more than win a live-action ranking; it also appears to have fed older catalog viewing, giving Disney+ another way to keep the franchise active between theatrical releases and new series drops.
May 22, 2026 for Grogu
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu was scheduled to hit theaters on May 22, 2026, giving the franchise a next theatrical marker after a year dominated by streaming minutes. After a 7.4 billion-minute showing for Andor and a 33 billion-minute franchise total, the live-action side looks strongest when it can push viewers back into the catalog, not just into one title.
