Voicemails for Isabelle Breaks Netflix Rom-Com Record

How Voicemails for Isabelle broke the record

Subscribers have watched the Ciara Bravo-led film for more than 165 million hours — over 9.9 billion minutes — since it landed. That is the longest run any Netflix rom-com has managed in the platform’s weekly charts, edging past franchise favourites like The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys. Irish viewers can stream it on Netflix now, and there is plenty more in the latest film and TV news.

Netflix has long leaned on the genre, turning The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys into popular trilogies for its younger viewers while also courting older audiences with titles like Your Place or Mine and Office Romance.

Rom-coms rarely post the elite viewing figures of Netflix’s action or crime titles, but the genre has quietly become one of the streamer’s most dependable performers, with The People We Meet On Vacation and Office Romance also among its most-watched films of the year.

With the major studios still largely leaving the genre alone, the seven-week run underlines how firmly Netflix now owns the rom-com space heading into the autumn.