Fyter Fest scores fantastic ratings for AEW Dynamite

Fyter Fest produced fantastic numbers for AEW. Night one of Fyter Fest brought in an audience of more than one million viewers last week, and now we know that night two of Fyter Fest raised the bar even higher.

Per Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston, last night’s (July 21) Dynamite brought in an hourly average audience of 1,148,000 viewers, with a 0.44 rating in the key 18 to 49 year old demographic. That’s a healthy bump up from last week’s already impressive 1,025,000 and 0.40 in those respective metrics.

These results rank among the best ever in Dynamite history outside of its debut episode in October 2019. With rumors linking both CM Punk and Daniel Bryan to AEW, the promotion is hot at a very interesting time. These numbers serve as a good reminder that we don’t really know what the ceiling is for AEW’s audience now that they have Wednesday nights all to themselves and are loading up the roster with as many big names as they can find.

Here’s a breakdown of AEW viewership and rating in the 18-49 demo over the last year:

• July 29, 2020: 773,000 / .30
• Aug. 5: 901,000 / .36
• Aug. 12: 792,000 / .32
• Aug. 22: 755,000 / .31
• Aug. 27: 813,000 / .29
• Sept. 2: 928,000 / .36
• Sept. 9: 1.02 million / .37
• Sept. 16: 886,000 / .34
• Sept. 23: 835,000 / .32
• Sept. 30: 866,000 / .33
• Oct. 7: 753,000 / .31
• Oct. 14: 826,000 / .30
• Oct. 21: 753,000 / .30
• Oct. 28: 781,000 / .32
• Nov. 4: 717,000 / .30
• Nov. 11: 764,000 /.30
• Nov. 18: 850,000 / .37
• Nov. 25: 710,000 / .26
• Dec. 2: 913,000 / .42
• Dec. 9: 995,000 / .45
• Dec. 16: 806,000 / .32
• Dec. 23: 775,000 / .32
• Dec. 30: 977,000 / .40
• Jan. 6, 2021: 662,000 / .25
• Jan. 13: 762,000 / .30
• Jan. 20: 854,000 / .36
• Jan. 27: 734,000 / .29
• Feb. 3: 844,000 / .32
• Feb. 10: 741,000 / .29
• Feb. 17: 747,000 / .31
• Feb. 24: 831,000 / .35
• Mar. 3: 934,000 / .33
• Mar. 10: 743,000 / .32
• Mar. 17: 768,000 / .28
• Mar. 24: 757,000 / .30
• Mar. 31: 700,000 / .26
• Apr. 7: 688,000 / .28
• Apr. 14: 1,219,000 / .44
• Apr. 21: 1,104,000 / .37
• Apr. 28: 889,000 / .33
• May 5: 1,090,000 / .42
• May 12: 936,000 / .31
• May 19: 821,000 / .28
• May 28: 526,000 / .20
• June 4: 462,000 / .19
• June 11: 487,000 / .19
• June 18: 551,000 / .20
• June 26: 649,000 / .21
• June 30: 883,000 / .35
• July 7: 871,000 / .33
• July 14: 1,025,000 / .40
• July 21: 1,148,000 / .44

For complete results and this week’s Dynamite live blog click here. To read a recap & review of the night’s events click here. For video highlights of the show click here.