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Earlier Thursday, Prime Video announced a second season renewal for Carrie . Now there’s publicly available data backing up the decision.

Carrie premiered as the No. 1 streaming title in the United States for the week of Oct. 5-11. The eight-episode season, a present-day update of Stephen King’s novel from showrunner Mike Flanagan, racked up 1.26 billion viewing minutes for the week (the series debuted on Oct. 7).

Prime Video has been on a bit of a hot streak lately: It has had the No. 1 overall title six times in the past eight weeks of Nielsen’s streaming ratings . Reacher held the top ranking four times in August and September, giving way to spinoff Neagley in the week of Sept. 14-20 .

Also opening well in the Oct. 5-11 frame was Netflix’s Below . The thriller starring Josh Hartnett had 1.19 billion minutes of watch time, good for second overall.…