The Season 6 finale for “Game of Thrones” drew the largest audience in the history of the series, with 8.9 million viewers tuning into HBO on Sunday night, according to Nielsen.

That breaks the record for the series that was previously held by the fifth season finale last year, of 8.1 million viewers.

In the coming week, those numbers are expected to only rise as more people watch it on demand or on HBO’s stand-alone app, HBO Now.

The premium cable channel said that the total audience for “Game of Thrones” this season — when factoring in original telecasts, encores, on-demand and streaming data — is averaging 23.3 million viewers per week, a 15 percent bump versus last year, according to USA Today.