RuPaul’s Drag Race S13 Premiere Slays As Most-Watched Episode in History

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RuPaul’s Drag Race slayed ratings records with its Season 13 premiere on January 1. The Emmy-winning reality drag queen competition rang in the “Ru year” with a gag-worthy new season that became the most-watched episode in the history of the franchise with a staggering 1.3 million total viewers.

The season premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race on VH1 delivered a 0.4 P18-49/LSD rating, which is up +1% from the Season 12 premiere. In addition, the premiere was up triple digits from time period benchmarks, up +144% vs. the P4W average (movies, 0.17) and +115% vs. year ago time slot (movies, 0.19).

For the first time in its 12-year run, VH1 simulcast the premiere on The CW Network, MTV, MTV2, PopTV and Logo. The full simulcast delivered a 0.74 P18-49 rating and netted 1.3 million total viewers (P2+). VH1 tallied 525,000 viewers with The CW earning 478,000 and 111,000 tuning in on MTV. Rounding out the simulcast tally were Logo with 58,000 viewers; Pop with 116,000 and MTV2 with 27,000.

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[RAMROD 110,675]

Pandemonium Pandemic did that

[jackoajl 435]

Gays are still winning!!! 

[MadreMonster 2,584]

This show is going to last forever and I love it 

[bryanspears 462]

That was such a messy episode nnn but whatever

my top 4 im rooting for is Kandy, Denali, Tina, and either Symone/Rose depending on how their runways go

[weed 74,661]

Honestly amazing that in its thirteenth season the show is on an upward trajectory and doing better than ever, a true cultural juggernaut. Love that

[MeetinDaShadow 224]

26 minutes ago, bryanspears said:

That was such a messy episode nnn but whatever

my top 4 im rooting for is Kandy, Denali, Tina, and either Symone/Rose depending on how their runways go

Rooting for Kandy, Symone, Tina Burner and Gotmik

[MessyTop 14,389]

Yaaaaaaaa. The gays keep winning!!!! 
mama Ru is the queen!!!!

[SharkmanthaC 114,699]

Ok but, as drag race episodes go this one wasn't amazing. 

[Zombiecat 17,098]

compared to last season's 'Im that bitcg' ep (one of my faves ever' it wasn't spectacular

 

but i'm never going to complain bc i literally love that drag race is feeding us so much, something care free to enjoy watching

[GagaSine 7,464]

Good job queens 

[elijahfan 26,506]

Glad to see the show smashing, tho I found this season premiere a bit weird and repetitive... It's always great to see the queens meeting and introducing themselves through the first challenges, and I don't think this lip-sync twist was worth losing that.

[phantasmas 10,705]

do we know if the rest of the season will be simulcasted? or was it only for the premiere? 

[BUtterfield 8 41,574]

Just now, phantasmas said:

do we know if the rest of the season will be simulcasted? or was it only for the premiere? 

Only for the premiere 

[Guest]

Honestly, thank you Rupaul drag race to give me something to look forward to in this lockdown!