[HanCinema's News] "Lovely Runner" Leads Viu Charts All Across Asia

Asia's largest streaming platform Viu recently released figures for the fifth week of May, defined as May 27th to June 2nd. The time slip romance "Lovely Runner" which ended on May 28th topped the Viu charts in six regions- Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Additionally, Viu enjoyed a large influx of new members once all episodes became available to stream, allowing users to watch all of them in a relatively short time frame.

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Marianne Lee of Viu credited the amazing cast, the quality of the work, and Viu's own marketing for making this sucess possible. The success of "Lovely Runner" also boosted other projects streamed by Viu featuring those same leads. "Extraordinary You" with Kim Hye-yoon was eighth place in the Indonesian rankings for that week, as well as fourteenth in the Phillipines, sixteenth in Malaysia, and seventeenth in Myanmar. "Moonshine" with Byeon Woo-seok was also eighteenth place in the Indonesian charts.

Viu is a Hong Kong service that streams in sixteen territories across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. "Reborn Rich" and "Taxi Driver 2" are among the major South Korean dramas it's currently streaming. More recently, it also streams "The Midnight Romance in Hagwon", "Bitter Sweet Hell", "The Player 2: Master of Swindlers", "High School Return of a Gangster", and "Dreaming of Cinde Fxxxing Rella" in international territories.

Written by William Schwartz