Emirates has announced the most popular in-flight entertainment on its planes this year.
The Dubai-based airline has delved into data to dissect what exactly passengers watched and listened to on journeys to and from 140 destinations around the world.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift had the most listened to album of the year on Emirates planes, while Avatar: Way of Water was most-watched film.
Emirates shares in-flight entertainment data
The airline boasts more than 6,500 channels of on demand movies, TV shows, music, podcasts, and even live TV.
The most watched movies by Emirates customers around the globe were:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Ticket to Paradise
- Top Gun: Maverick
Long haul customers across the world also settled into box sets of movies, such as The Lord of the Rings complete trilogy and all four of the John Wick films.
After English language content, the top viewed international movies include two Bollywood action movies, Vikram Vedha and Bholaa, the French thriller La Syndicaliste, Korean drama Return to Seoul, and the 2023 Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Anatomie d’une chute from France.
Arabic speakers tuned into Emirati film Khorfakkan – depicting the 16th century invasion of the city.
On long flights, Emirates customers loved to binge a box set, with exceptionally high viewership recorded for all seasons of HBO Max’s Succession and both seasons of The White Lotus.
Within the comedy genre, Emirates customers showed a preference for beloved sitcoms – Friends, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Big Bang Theory, while in drama – many travellers selected two historical dramas The English, and Women of the Movement, as well as suspense-filled drama Your Honor starring Bryan Cranston.
From a library of more than 3,000 albums, more than 500 curated playlists, over 40,000 tracks and more than 4,000 hours of music and podcasts – Emirates’ customers showed their sophisticated sides with one of the most popular albums on ice revealed as Mozart’s Chamber Music.
Ed Sheeran’s album Subtract was also in the top three, but unsurprisingly the top spot was scooped by the indomitable Taylor Swift and her album Midnights.
The most popular playlists onboard Emirates’ flights included the Arijit Singh Playlist, ABBA’s Timeless Pop Anthems and the Best of Fairuz and Khaleeji Classics.
In Global Music, the top trending regions customers accessed were India, Korea and Africa, with the most listened artists places held by Jimin from Korea, Burna Boy from Nigeria and SB19 from the Philippines.
Looking ahead to 2024, Emirates customers can expect to see many exciting developments on ice from exclusive new content partnerships to new next-generation inflight entertainment systems that offer memorable cinematic and personalised passenger experiences on the incoming 50-strong fleet of A350s.
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