Daytime Ratings: All Soaps See Audience Decline But 'The Young and the Restless' and 'Days of our Lives' Inch Up in Women 18-34 Demo

The Live + Same Day daytime Nielsen ratings are in for December 5-9, 2016. For the week, The Young and the Restless averaged 4.66 million viewers and was first in women 25-54 (1.4/10) for the 511th time in 513 weeks and first in women 18-49 (0.9/07) for the 505th time in 509 weeks.

On Pop TV, The Young and the Restless made the cable Top 150 rankings on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (433,750 viewer average). For the latest Pop's soap opera ratings, visit our Pop TV Ratings Hub.

Check out a breakdown below of the daytime soap opera Nielsen ratings by category:

Total Viewers (versus previous week/versus same week last year)
1. The Young and the Restless 4,659,000 (-18,000/-127,000)
2. The Bold and the Beautiful 3,726,000 (-50,000/+81,000)
3. General Hospital 2,654,000 (-17,000/+9,000)
4. Days of our Lives 2,284,000 (-19,000/-261,000)

Women 18-49 Viewers
1. The Young and the Restless 584,000 (-8,000/-168,000)
2. The Bold and the Beautiful 474,000 (-9,000/-121,000)
3. General Hospital 454,000 (-25,000/-14,000)
4. Days of our Lives 386,000 (-44,000/-130,000)

Women 18-34 Viewers
1. The Young and the Restless 149,000 (+6,000/-85,000)
2. The Bold and the Beautiful 113,000 (-2,000/-8,000)
3. General Hospital 111,000 (-11,000/-57,000)
4. Days of our Lives 87,000 (+1,000/-54,000)

Women 25-54 Viewers
1. The Young and the Restless 868,000 (-17,000/-139,000)
2. The Bold and the Beautiful 718,000 (-4,000/-119,000)
3. General Hospital 640,000 (-27,000/-46,000)
4. Days of our Lives 516,000 (-38,000/-137,000)

(via CBS and SON)

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