DAYS ratings keep soaring

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DAYS ratings keep soaring

Ratings for Days of our Lives continue to climb, and the show is poised to become television's third most-watched soap opera.

Days of our Lives is hot, hot, hot these days, and it looks like viewers across the nation agree. The ratings are out for the week of February 5 through February 9, and not only did the show manage to gain 117,000 new viewers compared to the previous week, but it's also up 320,000 viewers in comparison to this time last year.

In fact, DAYS' ratings are so good, the show isn't too far away from dethroning General Hospital as the nation's third most-watched soap opera.

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Perennially numbers one and two, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, saw their ratings inch up. Y&R managed to gain 74,000 viewers for the week, while B&B managed to gain 26,000.

General Hospital was the only soap to lose viewers -- 63,000, to be exact.

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