Top 10 most-watched live streams in the history of Twitch

Twitch has become a go-to space for broadcasting events, presentations, challenges, and all kinds of content designed to attract the masses by combining the spontaneity of live streaming with the appeal of interaction between viewers and streamers. Its tremendous pulling power became clear last year with Ibai’s La Velada del Año V, which drew 9.33 million concurrent viewers, but that is far from the only example. Today, we are taking a look at the most-watched live streams on Twitch.

As you will see below, Ibai Llanos has been crowned the king of the platform, but there are also other streamers who will remain in the history of Twitch due to the reach they achieved with their broadcasts.

These are the 10 most-watched live streams in Twitch history:

1. Ibai Llanos (9.33 million viewers)
2. Ibai Llanos (3.8 million viewers)
3. Ibai Llanos (3.4 million viewers)
4. Ibai Llanos (3.3 million viewers)
5. TheGrefg (2.4 million viewers)
6. Ibai Llanos (2.07 million viewers)
7. TheGrefg (1.7 million viewers)
8. Ibai Llanos (1.5 million viewers)
9. Elxokas (1.2 million viewers)
10. AmineMaTue (1.15 million viewers)

Ibai Llanos (9.33 million viewers)

In 2025, Ibai Llanos made Twitch history once again. The streamer, known for organizing major events for the Spanish-speaking community and for being part of the Kings League, broke his own record by reaching 9.33 million devices connected simultaneously during the fifth edition of La Velada (an increase of more than 140% compared with the previous edition).

🥊 Una noche legendaria!

💜 Twitch got a new platform record of 14M
🥊 @IbaiLlanos got a personal record of 9.33M Peak Viewers and became #1 most followed streamer

What a #LaVeladaDelAnoV!
More on the @Twitch record: https://t.co/EcnWSa9upa pic.twitter.com/LBHxPvLbfs

— Streams Charts 🇺🇦 (@StreamsCharts) July 27, 2025

On Saturday, July 26, 2025, Ibai held the fifth edition of La Velada at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville. The event lasted nearly 7 hours and brought together 80,000 attendees, although its reach was far greater, as the show recorded 9.33 million devices connected simultaneously. In doing so, the streamer broke his own record and reinforced his top spot in the ranking of the most-watched videos in Twitch history.

In addition to the seven fights and seven concerts, the event’s sponsoring brands also starred in some of the most memorable moments. For example, CeraVe introduced its own fighter, CeraVestia, who faced off against Dryness and Itching and came out victorious. Meanwhile, brands such as Alsa and Vicio brought back Peldanyos and Mister Jagger, respectively, both former fighters from previous editions of La Velada.

The other companies sponsoring La Velada del Año 5 were: Revolut, Grefusa, Spotify, Coca Cola, InfoJobs, Nothing (R), Mahou, G-Shock, and Maxibon.

Ibai Llanos (3.8 million viewers)

Second place on the list also belongs to Ibai, with La Velada del Año 4, held on July 13, 2024. The event, staged at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, brought together 85,000 in-person attendees and recorded 3.8 million devices connected simultaneously, around 400,000 more than La Velada 3.

🚨NEW WORLD RECORD CONFIRMED@IbaiLlanos and the Spanish-speaking community made history one more time.

You are legends of the internet.#LaVeladaDelAñoIV pic.twitter.com/7ebs9rD6bP

— Twitch (@Twitch) July 13, 2024

Over the course of the night, there were six fights, musical performances by Julieta Venegas, Paulo Londra, Young Miko, and David Bisbal; and Will Smith was also there, the event’s other big star, alongside his son Jaden and Bizarrap.

Among the event’s sponsoring brands were Vicio and Revolut. Vicio delivered a food order to Ibai via jetpack just before the fight between Plex and El Mariana began. Since the streamer had no way to pay, Revolut seized its cue and entered the scene with a second jetpack to complete the payment. Not a single second of airtime went to waste.

Other brands present included: El Pozo, Grefusa, Alsa, Maxibon, Casio (through its watch brand G-Shock), Coca-Cola (through Coke Studio, its global music platform), CeraVe, Late Checkout (the clothing brand signed by C. Tangana that dressed Ibai), and Spotify, which created a special playlist with 37 tracks played throughout the evening.

There were also weaker moments, namely the absence of Nicky Jam and the late arrival of Puerto Rican artist Anuel, who performed poorly and without much enthusiasm, amid boos, insults, and plastic cups flying onto the stage.

Ibai Llanos (3.4 million viewers)

La Velada del Año 3 was organized by Vizz and Noob, both Webedia agencies, and was held at Madrid’s Cívitas Metropolitano. It featured musical performances by various artists alongside amateur-level fights between content creators. Sponsoring or partner brands included ElPozo King, which had also been present at all previous editions; Alsa, the bus network that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023; Samsung; Spotify; Grefusa; Coca-Cola; PlayStation; iGraal; Revolut; and Mahou.

Gracias por formar parte del mayor directo de la historia.

Por formar parte de otro récord mundial.

Gracias a todos de corazón. El 1 de julio de 2023 será inolvidable. pic.twitter.com/PrS47mTcVS

— Ibai (@IbaiLlanos) July 1, 2023

Ibai Llanos (3.3 million viewers)

La Velada del Año 2, in which not only content creators and streamers took part, but also singer David Bustamante, who replaced Jaime Lorente, known for playing Denver in Money Heist. It was held at the Olympic arena in Badalona on June 25, 2022.

TheGrefg (2.4 million viewers)

In 2021, David Cánovas, better known as TheGrefg, unveiled his own Fortnite skin live, drawing nearly 2.5 million viewers. A “skin” is a character appearance used in the game, in this case Fortnite, that does not affect gameplay stats. Since one of Grefg’s main types of content is this battle royale video game, he joined the list of content creators with their own in-game appearance as part of the “Icon Series.”

Ibai Llanos (2.07 million viewers)

Platform fragmentation in the broadcast of La Velada del Año VI prevented Ibai from continuing his tradition of breaking Twitch viewership records year after year. For the first time in the event’s history, Twitch was not the only channel airing the live stream, which was also broadcast on YouTube and TikTok Live.

As a result, although La Velada VI reached 7.67 million viewers across all platforms, Twitch “only” recorded 2.07 million peak viewers, trailing behind YouTube (5.08 million).

TheGrefg (1.7 million viewers)

TheGrefg also knows how to organize major events. Since 2022, he has been in charge of the awards for streamers in the Spanish-speaking community, bringing together Spain, Latin America, and Andorra: the Esland Awards. After a first edition held in Spain, with the promise that the next one would be staged in Latin America, Esland 2023 reached nearly two million viewers and was held in Mexico City.

Ibai Llanos (1.5 million viewers)

In this case, the record also belongs to La Velada del Año, specifically its first edition. Far less massive than the editions that would follow.

Elxokas (1.2 million viewers)

The Galician streamer reached 1.2 million unique viewers by making it to the final of the first Squid Craft Games in Minecraft to be held on the platform. In this Twitch Rivals event, 100 streamers competed for a $100,000 prize by playing the games from the famous Netflix series “Squid Game” in Minecraft.

AmineMaTue (1.15 million viewers)

French streamer AnimeMaTue’s Twitch channel reached a peak of 1,155,060 viewers on November 19, 2022, during a closely contested soccer match between French and Spanish content creators, in which France claimed victory with a final score of 2-0. The match was held at Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris and drew 20,000 in-person attendees.