EXCLUSIVE: The audience for American Idol Season 23 is on the rise, despite some tough competition last week.
Hollywood Week kicked off on Sunday night, up nearly 10% from the week prior in live + same-day viewership with 5.1M tuning in. Within three days of multi-platform viewing, the audience had ballooned to 6.69M viewers, packing well ahead of the season’s average viewership (6.13M), per ABC. Similarly, the three-day audience was up 10% from the week prior as well.
This episode’s three-day viewership marks American Idol‘s largest overall audience since its post-Oscars premiere on March 2.
From linear viewing alone, the episode tallied about 5.92M viewers and a 0.57 rating among adults 18-49 in the L3 window, marking season highs in both measures and boosting it to the top entertainment program of the night across broadcast and cable (after three days of viewing, that is).
American Idol‘s Monday performance was also quite impressive, especially considering the tough competition not only from regular its time-slot rival The Voice but also from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship.
The episode managed 5.83M multi-platform viewers after three days, growing about 10% over the week prior. On linear alone, the episode delivered 5.11M viewers in L3 and a 0.54 rating among adults 18-49, which are double-digit increases over the previous week’s performance.
Notably, that linear viewership led the original hour of The Voice (the first hour was a recap) by 690,000 viewers, which is American Idol‘s largest margin of victory head-to-head with the NBC competition series in over seven years.
Two new episodes of American Idol are now available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ after the top 24 performances wrapped up Monday night from Disney’s Aulani Resort. Next week, we’ll see how viewers voted to determine the next round of contestants.
