With 25 million viewers, Grammys ratings drop to 7-year low
This story has been updated to reflect adjusted audience totals for 2015.
The 58th Grammy Awards netted CBS nearly 25 million viewers Monday, down slightly from 25.3 million it claimed on a comparable February Sunday last year, hitting a seven-year low.
The awards, shifted to avoid competing with the holiday weekend, The Walking Dead and the NBA All-Star Game, clocked in at three and a half hours, and for the first time aired live in all time zones, as many other awards shows now do. It marked the most-watched entertainment program this TV season.
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The Grammys were the lowest-rated since 2009, when 19 million tuned it. The recent high, 39.9 million, came in 2012, immediately after Whitney Houston's death in a Beverly Hills hotel on Grammy weekend. Young-adult viewership also marked its lowest level since 2009.
Despite complaints Monday night that CBS's All Access live-streaming app asn't working, the network said the platform set new records for usage, though it provided no specifics. Last week, it said about 4 million streamed the Super Bowl, compared to the 111 million who watched it on TV.