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‘365 Days’ Is Currently Battling With Not One, But Two Different Mark Wahlberg Movies To Become #1 On Netflix

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The Netflix narrative in June absolutely and unequivocally belonged to 365 Days—a Polish erotic film that rose from nowhere and took hold of the world’s most popular streaming service. In the Monthly Top 10 rankings for June, 365 Days stood far above every other movie in the #1 spot. In just a little over 20 days, the summer’s unexpected hit broke Netflix records, commanded the Top 10 charts week in and week out, and achieved milestones that no other movie on the streaming service has every accomplished.

The only thing that stood in the way of 365 Days? A Mark Wahlberg movie.

No—not that Mark Wahlberg movie. Not the one that stripped 365 Days of its #1 reign on the Daily Top 10.

I’m talking about Spenser Confidential.

The other Mark Wahlberg movie that got in 365 Days’s way was Patriots Day—a film premiered on Netflix on July 1 and became the fourth movie to grab the #1 spot from 365 Days on the Daily Top 10. And so far in July, Patriots Day has easily accrued the most points of any film on Netflix (you can read about the Netflix Top 10 points system here) with 68 points. Meanwhile, 365 Days in down in fifth place in July with just 37 points.

Here are the July rankings so far:

  1. Patriots Day - 68 points
  2. The Town - 55 points
  3. Desperados - 47 points
  4. A Thousand Words - 42 points
  5. 365 Days - 37 points
  6. Eurovision - 29 points
  7. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry - 27 points
  8. Double Jeopardy - 12 points
  9. Feel the Beat - 10 points

But it’s not the July ratings that concerns 365 Days—it’s the 2020 rankings. And that’s where Spenser Confidential comes in.

Today, 365 Days saw its lowest ranking on the Daily Top 10 charts yet in eighth place. Ever since the Polish movie’s Netflix premiere on June 9, the film has owned the #1 spot 12 different times and the #2 spot nine different times. On average, 365 Days has accrued 8.17 points per day of the maximum possible of 10—not bad.

And 365 Days’s 12-day reign at #1 would have been a Netflix record if it wasn’t for Spenser Confidential, which held onto the top spot for an all-time high of 18 straight days back in March. And up until today, Spenser Confidential had accrued the most points of any live action film on Netflix in 2020.

But today, 365 Days’s uncharacteristically low ranking was just enough to push it past Spenser Confidential in the 2020 rankings:

  1. Despicable Me - 314 points
  2. The Angry Birds Movie 2 - 284 points
  3. 365 Days - 237 points
  4. Spenser Confidential - 236 points
  5. The Wrong Missy - 187 points
  6. Extraction - 182 points
  7. Angel Has Fallen - 182 points
  8. The Willoughbys - 169 points
  9. Code 8 - 129 points
  10. Space Jam - 126 points

It’s hard to believe 365 Days will own the lasting power to push past the animated juggernauts of The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Despicable Me, which seem to have immense replay value for families with a Netflix account.

But in the live action category, 365 Days now owns sole possession of the #1 position. So even as 365 Days tries to work its way back up the Daily Top 10 charts and retake the top spot from Patriots Day (which is unlikely), the Polish film can take solace in the fact that no other live action movie in 2020 has commanded Netflix like it has.

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