“Empire” Breaks 23-Year TV Ratings Record

    FOX’s hit show Empire appears to be gaining new fans each week.

    The Hip Hop-themed TV show has just broken a ratings record that is more than two decades old. According to Fox, Empire is the only primetime scripted series to grow in total viewers over each of its first five telecasts since at least 1991.

    Entertainment Weekly has also reported that for the first two weeks with total DVR data available that Empire is averaging 14 million viewers and a 5.6 rating among adults 18-19.

    ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire also achieved a similar feat through each of its first five telecasts in 1999, but the show was not considered a series at the time.

    EW also states that the ratings record Empire just broke may have been in place longer than the 23 years Fox has publicized. Since Nielsen revised its measuring system 23 years ago, comparisons can only be calculated from that time period.

    Empire has already been picked up for a second season and a slew of celebrities, Snoop Dogg among them, are expected to make cameos on upcoming episodes.

    17 thoughts on ““Empire” Breaks 23-Year TV Ratings Record

    1. LOL THEY KEEP MAKING UP IRRELEVANT RECORDS TO GIVE THIS SHOW TO TRY AND MAKE IT SEEM BIGGER THAN IT REALLY IS

      1. What record do you have? The records they have are relevant. A record is, by its very nature, relevant. Otherwise there’d be no records at all.

      1. We live under a system of white supremacy where people who classify themselves as white seek to dominate and subjugate non white people.

      1. the only people who truly think Empire is better than Power Tyler Perry fans and homosexuals happy to see a gay black kid getting some screen time.

      1. LMAO @ SOMEONE CALLING POWER GAY WHILE DEFENDING EMPIRE, THE FEMINIIZATION OF THE BLACK MAN IS WORKING JUST AS PLANNED

      2. I don’t know why, thanks to Timbaland they have his damn headphones all in that show. 50 he is cool now and that the show is different than his. Both Power and Empire are good shows though!

    2. why yall all up on here wasting yall time typing if yall stupid asses dont even like it, yall just mad cuz they making more money than yall ever will. dumb asses

    3. I look forward for Wednesday’s to come to see this show, I love Cookie & Lucious! Love the music & love the story period! So much fun, my new personal therapy! My treat! Yall leave me alone and shut up when this show comes on!

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