Two Twitch records in a single month? Not a problem for TheGrefg. This Streams Charts' article is dedicated to the new achievement of David “TheGrefg” Martinez, as well as to the overall top of Twitch streamers and studios based on the peak viewers indicator.
The previous viewership record was set thanks to Galactus Event
The first record of TheGrefg was set at the Galactus Event (an in-game collaboration between Fortnite and Marvel). As in the case of the Travis Scott concert, the players fully interacted with their environment and Galactus himself.
The scale of the event was incredibly large, with viewers literally storming the broadcasts of many streamers. On December 1st, 2020, the stream of TheGrefg gathered 660K peak viewers, making David the most popular content creator based on this metric among all the Twitch streamers.
Entering the Icon Series
It wasn’t long until the new achievement unveiled itself. The developers took notice of TheGrefg’s achievements. The game includes the Icon Series of skins featuring such famous battle royale personalities as Ninja, Lachlan and Loserfruit.
David definitely deserved a spot among these, and so just a month later his own skin was added to the game – while its presentation reached an incredibly high mark of 2.4 million peak viewers. To compare, the same numbers would be reached if the entirety of the population of Slovenia or Lativa was watching the stream at the same time.
Along with the record, TheGrefg got his own PogChamp emote on Twitch:
The most popular Twitch streams - are the esports streams getting left behind?
An important point: we have determined the platform’s top 10 most popular channels (including those of esports studios) and the presentation of TheGrefg’s skin ended up attracting more viewers than the official broadcasts of the tournaments.
Before that, the record of 1.1 million peak viewers belonged to ELEAGUE TV and was set in 2018 at the ELEAGUE Major 2018 in the final match between FaZe Clan and Cloud9.
PlayStation reached the mark of 1 million viewers during The Future of Gaming Show on June 11th. It was then when PlayStation 5 was unveiled for the first time.
The record of Riot Games was set at the Worlds 2019, with the final stage in Madrid being spectated by a total of 673K peak viewers gathered at the developer’s channel.
Among the esports studios, the channel of PGL also entered the top, gathering 668K peak viewers at the PGL Major Kraków 2017’s final match between Gambit and Immortals. The tournament series itself took a two-years break, but now you can already buy tickets to Stockholm – as on October 23rd, 2021, the tournament operator will be holding a new major.
The ESL_CSGO channel reached the mark of 579K peak viewers during the final of IEM Katowice Major 2019 where Astralis and ENCE met.
Closing the top 10 is FACEIT TV. This tournament organizer has set its record of 519K peak viewers at FACEIT Major London 2018.
The most popular Twitch streamers – whose record has TheGrefg broken?
It wasn’t TheGrefg alone that was able to change the composition of the platform’s most popular streamers lately. The fourth spot was taken by the Spanish-speaking streamer Ibai. His New Year's stream from December 31st gradually transitioned into the celebration of a new record – given that he gathered a total of 552K peak viewers on the holiday’s eve.
Update: Tommyinnit has entered the top in 2021 with 650K Peak Viewers
The third spot still belongs to Ninja. Tyler’s record was set at the Ninja Las Vegas battle in 2018, and amounted to 633 thousand viewers. The fifth spot belongs to the Arena of Valor player xTears88, who restreamed Asian Games 2018 during the same year, gathering 515K viewers.
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