The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power breaks the audience record on Amazon Prime Video

After a long wait, it has finally arrived in the Amazon Prime Video catalog ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, a production that debuted with an interesting storyline set in Middle-earth created by JRR Tolkienwho set a world audience record on this platform in just 24 hours.

According to data shared by the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’debuted on the platform getting no less than 25 million viewing hours in 24 hours globallybecoming one of the most followed releases in history, not only from this service, but from the entire world of streaming.

Without a doubt, it is a huge success that the amazon streaming service realized in a few hours with this production, which, taking into account the budget that this title had in its first season, is great news for this platform, that the series is achieving such a positive result in no time.

We must not forget that ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ had a budget of just over 700 million dollars, moreover the streaming service Amazon had already paid out about 250 million dollars to obtain the rights of The Lord. of The Rings, so we’re looking at a billion dollar production.

With the gigantic expense that the new series The Lord of the Ringsthis production is the great bet of the streaming service and, as we have underlined, the result it obtained in the first 24 hours after its preview, outlines this title as one of the most successful in the history of the entire film sector, for which everything indicates that the platform will recover its investment.

Prequel plot of The Lord of the Rings

It should be noted that much of the result obtained ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’, is due to the enormous interest it generated before its launch, because it is a production that shows a plot that is a prequel to the story presented in the successful film trilogy of this franchise created by Peter Jackson.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ achieved rapid success’ features a storyline set thousands of years earlier than those presented in the above films, as it takes place in Tolkien’s second era of Middle-earth, locations shown and characters who are only mentioned in The Lord of the Rings movies.