Yellowstone wrestled quite an audience for what is likely the conclusion of Taylor Sheridan‘s flagship series.
The Season 5B finale delivered 11.4M viewers, the largest in series history, on Sunday night across Paramount Network and CMT.
According to Paramount Global, that’s up 4% from the Season 5A finale, which lassoed 10.3M live + same-day viewers.
This data is courtesy of VideoAmp, since Paramount is still locked in a contract dispute with Nielsen.
This is the most bare bones data that Paramount has released for Season 5B. The company previously revealed a behemoth live + same-day audience across CBS and eight cable networks for the premiere, but the finale viewership gives a much better indication of just how big the weekly audience for the series was, since the rest of the episodes only aired on two networks.
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The only other data that Paramount has given for Season 5B is three-day viewership for the fourth episode, which tallied a record 12.1M in that time frame. It will be interesting to see if the company reveals any further delayed-viewing audience data for the finale.
Paramount Global also says this is the “most social” season of Yellowstone, up 103% in views and 68% in engagement.
From MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Yellowstone is co-created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. Executive producers include John Linson, Art Linson, Taylor Sheridan, Kevin Costner, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari, Stephen Kay, Michael Friedman, Christina Voros and Keith Cox.
While Yellowstone might be done for good, Sheridan is still dominating Paramount’s airwaves with a slew of other shows.
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