Elden Ring became one of the biggest game releases in YouTube history

Elden Ring has already blown the box office and collected great scores, but there's another metric where the game has set a serious record: YouTube views among all releases.

The stats were published by IGN, citing YouTube Gaming data.

Popular games in their first 60 days of release:

• Elden Ring - 3.4 billion views
• GTA V - 1.9 billion views
• Red Dead Redemption 2 - 1.4 billion views
• Super Mario Odyssey - 828 million views
• The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild - 638 million views
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 456 million views

Two things are noted:

• Many games have been restricted by YouTube audience volume of their period. For example, GTA V came out in 2013, when YouTube had a smaller audience than Elden Ring did in 2022.
• Google doesn't reveal the games whose views of the release were higher than Elden Ring, but still calls it one of the most popular games, not the most popular.

The most popular Elden Ring videos around release (they have more views now).

• CoryxKenshin - Elden Ring is Rage Game of 2022 (6.2 million views),
• AshesWolf Elden Ring - MAX LEVEL 713 VS Bosses Gameplay (5.7 million views),
• Boomstick Gaming - ELDEN RING | Get "Overpowered" At The Very Start (5.3 million views),
• Joel Haver - Elden Ring by NPC's Perspective (5 million views),
• JackSepticEye - Best Game In The Last 5 Years (4.8 million views).

Channels that had the most views on Elden Ring during release:

• RageGamingVideos (946,000 subscribers) - 71.6 million views,
• FightinCowboy (1.07 million subscribers) - 39.6 million views,
• Arekkz Gaming (1.29 million subscribers) - 39 million views.

Division by type of content:

Videos - 71.3%.
Streams - 25.98%.
Shorts - 2.72%.

Top number of clips by bosses:

1. Margit, Terrible Sign.
2. Drawing, Mikella's Blade.
3. Godric Storuky.
4. Radan Beach of Stars.
5. Dragon Tree Guardian.

Top number of casters by main character class:

1. Samurai.
2. Hero.
3. Scoundrel.
4. Astrologer.
5. Warrior.

Elden Lord Award for contributions to the Elden Ring community (titles attributed to Google):

• VaatiVidya (2.27 million subscribers) - lore expert,
• Fextralife (574,000 subscribers) - omniscient guide,
• Distortion2 (313,000 subscribers) - master of moves finders,
• Zullie the Witch (439,000 subscribers) - expert "soulslinger",
• RichaadEB (568,000 subscribers) - musician with a faded soul.

It's also noted that videos of Let me solo her have collected more than 25 million views.