On Sunday, Nov. 9, Kandi Burruss, Nene Leakes, Phaedra Parks, Kenya Moore, Porsha Williams and Cynthia Bailey returned to television on the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" season seven premiere. Viewers were anxious to see their favorite personalities with two new cast members, Claudia Jordan and Demetria McKinney, as their personal lives' making headline news all off-season long. The constant media coverage helped as the belles of the south brought in 3.83 million viewers, breaking records as the best season premiere Bravo ever had.

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According to the latest Nielsen reports and Variety, the show "Averaged a 1.8 rating/5 share in adults 18-49 (about 2.2 million in this age group)," totaling in a 20% rise in viewership compared to the season six premiere.

Also, the beloved drama kept Twitter on its' toes. Coupled with the high ratings, the season premiere was also the no. 1 most social reality program with over 171,000 tweets, marking another feat for the Atlanta imports.

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The ladies, except for Kenya Moore, Porsha Williams and Nene Leakes who is in NYC preparing for her stint on Broadway's "Cinderella," celebrated in Atlanta with their close family and friends. They shared photos on Instagram with cute poses and large smiles.

Kandi posted...

 It's way too many to tag but @phaedraparks @claudiajordan @cynthiabailey10 @peterthomasrhoa @todd167 & I wanted to come & celebrate the crew of #RHOA7 & let them know that we appreciate all their hard work to make a record breaking premier! Thanks guys! Love yall!

A photo posted by Kandi Burruss (@kandiburruss) on Nov 11, 2014 at 5:57pm PST

. Cynthia posted...

.Watch episode two this Sunday on Bravo at 8/7c. Here's a trailer from next week's episode.

Are you all excited to see what happens between Kenya and Apollo? Let us know in the comments, below.

Congrats ladies!

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