The following is a list of television Nielsen ratings and rankings for American daytime soap operas from 1950 to the present, as compiled by Nielsen Media Research.
[1] The numbers provided represent the percentage of TV households in the United States watching that particular show in a year.
[1] Ratings beginning with the 2013-14 television season count Live+Same Day households as opposed to Live+7 Days.
Before 1996, the season average included only ratings from late September through mid-April.
Since 1996, the numbers represent full-year ratings, from September through September.