‘Dancing With the Stars’ Scores Season Best Ratings With Grammy Night
The ratings renaissance for Dancing With the Stars has continued throughout this season, and it reached a high with Tuesday’s episode.
Early numbers for the Nov. 10 edition are the best of the season to date. The episode, which featured the contestants and their pro partners dancing to Grammy-winning and -nominated songs — and live performances from Sheryl Crow, Maren Morris and Brandy and Monica — averaged 7.33 million viewers on ABC and Disney+ in Nielsen’s preliminary ratings, not including the out of home or big data components.
DWTS typically sees an uptick in ratings when those two elements are added, so Tuesday’s episode will likely finish ahead of season’s previous high of 7.36 million viewers for the Oct. 20 show.
In the key ad sales demographic of adults 18-49, Tuesday’s show is already at a season high rating of 1.58 (equal to about 2.15 million viewers in that age range). The previous best this season was a 1.56 rating on Oct. 13, including big data and out of home.
Tuesday’s episode saw a surprise elimination and the field narrowed to six couples. The semifinal round is on deck for Nov. 17.
Dancing With the Stars has continued the surprising ratings momentum it found in 2025 into this season. Every week so far has posted ratings higher than the same week a year ago. Through this week, DWTS is averaging about 6.89 million same-day viewers and a 1.48 rating among adults 18-49, up from 6.1 million and 1.23 at the same point last season. A week of cross-platform viewing adds more than a million viewers to the total.
This story will be updated when final ratings become available.
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