The season 33 finale of “Dancing With the Stars” reaches its largest audience since 2020

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“Dancing With the Stars” ended its 33rd season with a bang in the ratings.

Tuesday’s finale of “Dancing With the Stars” drew 6.36 million viewers on ABC – the largest audience the ABC ballroom dancing show has seen since the Season 29 finale in November 2020, according to Nielsen live and same-day -Pay.

The finale episode also achieved a 1.14 rating in the key broadcast demo among adults 18-49, making it the series’ highest demo rating since the Season 29 premiere in September 2020. The episode dated Tuesday also recorded the show’s largest demo viewership for a finale in seven years, since May 2018.

As five couples performed their final dances in the hope of winning the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, the finale saw a record-breaking 32 million votes as fans voted for their favorite teams.

In addition to achieving its highest total and demo viewership since Season 29, the Season 33 finale also saw double-digit gains compared to last season’s finale, increasing total viewership by 16% and demo viewership by 70%. .

The “Dancing With the Stars” finale topped other key demos, earning a 1.27 rating among adults 18-34, a 1.61 rating among women 18-49, a rating of 1.9 for women aged 18 to 34 and a rating of 0.65 for men aged 18 to 34. 34.

Tuesday’s finale gave ABC a win among its broadcast peers, with “Dancing With the Stars” outperforming “The Voice” – its closest broadcast rival – by 226% as the NBC show earned a 0.35 rating. The “Dancing” finale also ranked as the highest-rated regularly aired primetime entertainment program since NBC’s “This Is Us” finale, which earned a 1.28 rating in May 2022.

Season 33 of “Dancing with the Stars” averaged a 0.77 rating, making it the No. 1 entertainment series among adults 18-49 for the first time ever.

The final five couples – Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong; Danny Amendola and Whitney Carson; Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson; Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten; and Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold – took the stage for the final time this season, Graziadei and Johnson were named the winning couple of season 33.