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heads up they aren't romance dramas, crime crackdown is doing super well. ideal city and the bond could both be hits. these three are all daily dramas, so they don't really lose steam. candle in the tomb: worm valley at the end of the month will probably do well too

GGS and Legend of Fei are both considered idol dramas by cnetizens, they are usually targeted at young and female audience, romance dramas are usually consider as idol dramas. Rebel Princess is an idol drama (due to content, the politics feels like child's play)

Modern dramas that's not idol dramas's primary focus are usually on something else (family, kids or everything together), e.g. Nothing but Thirty or a Love for Dilemma. Historical, well most dramas international audience watch are also idol dramas lol, xianxia are idol dramas too, even Nirvana in Fire is kind of inbetween of idol and "serious" political drama.

Idols in this context are "young and popular actors", idol dramas tend to be lighter and less realistic. To breakfree of "idol" label, they usually have to do lot of other genres. Yang Yang's special force drama is an example, but if it's not done well, it's considered not serious/"idol-y". There's some realism in YAMG, and lot of people applaud it for that, but it's still not super down to earth? It's a neutral term by the way, although some people will use it negatively, but those people aren't worth your time usually.

You are looking at the yearly chart of mhmmm, basically it's the first thing you watch after you subscribe (so they assume you subscribed for that drama/show). There's actual numbers under them but I think they are relative figures so not relevant here. The donghua version of DLDL is basically always #1, so everyone just ignores it.

I'm not sure where @WK1's numbers are from, but they are total viewcounts this year so far. But they probably aren't updated since youku have recently completely blocked people from seeing its viewcounts last month.

There are people that compile charts for 14 days after non-vip ends for their dramas, but comparing across platforms can be headache inducing, especially when they air on multiple platforms. Tencent's 100mil+/ep dramas are DLDL, Sword of Brocade then Legend of Fei (in order). iQiyi only has MHH but it's higher than DLDL (by my count, iQiyi uses its own system of viewcounts and the figures that's shown here looks like it's lower than the counts I've seen). You Are My Hero and Rattan both aired on all three platfoms and I can't remember their figures off top of my head lol, Rattan broke 100mil and YAMH is just under though.

it hasn't but since datawin doesn't take into account viewcounts, i take it with more grain of salt. Its vlinkage is second highest this year though. 93.62 vs 93.64 iirc, the latter is my heroic husband

it's 2.06billion now

people usually use viewcounts per episode when talking about them to avoid this problem.

today it's still an update day, its regular curve is steadily climb till wednesday then it drops, this week should be climb till tuesday and drop, hopefully the drop isn't as drastic

By the end of the week, unlikely, you can use last week's thurs to sunday number to estimate this week. Next week 3billion should be fine.

lower than I expected, i expected 7+, but it should rise.

vlinkage takes into account viewcounts, buzz around the net, I think weibo probably play into it (not sure if wechat official acc/douyin does though). Detawen never actually say what influences their rating, but it definitely does not include viewcounts, looks like fandom hype actually, considering Imperial Coroner got a pretty high number iirc (IC is a low budget drama that outperformed its expectations and had good buzz amongst certain circle of cnetizens but it shouldn't have a high number)

Hopefully it makes up for the completely dead first half of the year for tv dramas, the tv ratings were all around abysmal lol. It finally looks like a summer hits are coming! I've been waiting for this for months!

Sun Honglei's new thriller (?) is doing pretty well too. Daylight ent's new drama have four promising young actors and I'm sure daylight will go pretty hard on the promotion, both of them are tencent dramas, and they will have daily updates so yeah.

I'd note that just before Olympics started, there were floods, then right when YAMG started, the slow moving typhoon that caused the floods hit, then there was a COVID flare up that was caught too late that's still on-going. Olympics and Kris Wu definitely got most of the attentions though. There's a whole bunch of strong tv dramas starting this week too.

I'd expect it to slow down unless the kiss scenes grabbed new audience. The day after first fast track is usually the high point of a series' daily viewcount. Let's see how it goes today and tomorrow. YAMG drops bit too fast on non update days too.

fun fact: her real QQ account's name is 一闪一闪, in her profile it says 一闪一闪亮晶晶 which is twinkle twinkle little star's chinese lyrics, although literal translation would be twinkle twinkle shiny-ny lol. So their QQ account kind of match too, jade rabbit and a star!

it's taken for granted you can buy them, and have been previously shown in multiple dramas. I don't remember dramas showing you can take them off, but it's taken for granted by cnetizens, you sometimes just watch the hashtag gets lowered really fast (I think removing it cost more than putting you on it lol) You can also nuke tags by the way, which is really questionable, so weibo users are always calling weibo and its CEO names.

....that's because people always incorrectly blame censorship when a lot of it are their assumption/speculation.

they are, it's on the calender. it's honestly kind of rude, normally you'd fast track on last update day, so wednesday, but for this drama, it's monday, get them money and still keep the viewcounts, gg tencent.

Again, you are underestimating Sword and Brocade's two leads, Wallace Chung have couple extremely popular dramas under his belt, one of them a Gu Man adaptation. Both the leads have market amongst the Chinese aunties. S&B's novel is actually more well known than Minglan's, it's a shame that they didn't seem to adapt it super well, ah well, the drama outperformed its expectations.

When you look at how popular a drama is from cnetizen side, it's very often just weibo/douban which is young and female dominated, there are lot more people than that. Case in point, this week, we are going to see flurry of new tv dramas that's broadcasting, Cheng Yi's new drama is the least competitive of them all. A thriller that just started with a stellar cast, a Sun Li drama (tv rating queen), a daylight entertainment (production company, dramas all tend to be decent quality) family drama, and another family drama that looks like tv audience will love.

You can divide the viewcounts by ep number, that makes it bit fairer for shorter dramas. I want to restate that MHH is literally the top airing drama for iQiyi this year, by a very large margin. Expecting YAMG to match up is really high expectations.

I actually like that arc, but i think it got more boring in second half, but if you look at viewcounts, most people didn't drop it. Well done comedy is actually pretty hard to come by, and it has the widest audience reach. It's actually getting more views during summer than before. It is definitely the most watched drama for iQiyi, period, by a very large margin.