Like last year, Twitch has seen a rise in its audience numbers. This shows that more people consider this platform a good source of entertainment and visit it even after the COVID-19 pandemic has waned down. Before 2021 ends, let us bring to you the top 10 most-watched streamers on the Twitch TV platform who have attracted audiences through their online content. All these data have been taken from streamscharts.com. Twitch TV, Top Twitch Streamers 2021, Most watched Twitch Streamers, Top 10 on Twitch
Here is a list of the Top 10 Twitch most-watched streamers for 2021
- Felix “xQc” Lengyel: xQc once again takes the top spot in 2021. His watch hours on the viewers’ side increased by a whopping 78% more than last year. It means that his Twitch audience has seen 269 million hours worth of his stream collectively.
- Alexandre “Gaules” Borba from Brazil has taken the second spot in the top 10 Twitch streamers list of 2021. He is known for being online most of the time and has streamed for a total of 8,447 hours (352 days) on Twitch. The watch hours of his audience increased by 22.6% from last year, with a total of 163 million hours.
- One of the better performers on this list is Raul “AuronPlay” Alvarez. His ranking jumped from sixth to third place when compared to last year. Even the watch hours of his broadcasts nearly doubled by reaching 120.8 million. He also has the highest average viewers count in 2021 which is 109k.
- Ibai “Ibai” Llanos also jumped one rank from last year. The total hours watched by his audience reached 102.7 million, and he also gained the highest peak number of viewers among all the top 10 Twitch streamers of 2021. It was 1.54 million active viewing audience members during is fighting tournament.
- We also have a new name on this year’s Top 10 Twitch streamers list. Victor “loud_coringa” Augusto has risen up to be ranked 5th right away by having 99.8 million hours watched by his streamers. One of the main factors behind his rise is his association with the popular Brazilian esports organization LOUD. He is known to play and stream mostly GTA Online on RP servers.
- Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar is the first streamer who has dropped in rankings in this year’s list. He dropped from third place (in 2020) to sixth (in 2021) as his streams had 89.9 million hours watched. One of the factors that resulted in a dip in his numbers is that he almost stopped broadcasting VALORANT in 2021.
Most watched @Twitch streamers in 2021:
1⃣ @xQc
2⃣ @Gaules
3⃣ @auronplay
4⃣ @IbaiLlanos
5⃣ @loud_victor
6⃣ @summit1g
7⃣ @shroud
8⃣ @NICKMERCS
9⃣ @hasanthehun
🔟 @loltyler1Full report: https://t.co/RByGZAv6fa pic.twitter.com/fMBn7rxBsu
— Streams Charts (@StreamsCharts) December 25, 2021
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- Another well-known FPS streamer, Michael “shroud” Grzesiek made it to the Top 10 watched Twitch streamer lists in 2021. He streamed mainly VALORANT throughout the year and had 84.9 million Hours Watched.
- Another streamer who fell in his ranks when compared to 2020 is Nick “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff. Although his total Hours Watched increased to 81 million, he was still outshined by the streamers above him on the list.
- A unique name that got added to this list is Hasan “HasanAbi” Dogan. It is also his first time climbing up into the Top 10 most-watched Twitch streamers. He had a total of 80.8 million Hours Watched and secured a ninth-place finish on this list this year. Hasan mainly talks about political news and his opinions on his broadcasts. Thus he can be found mostly in the “Just Chatting” category of Twitch TV.
- The hyperactive and rage machine Tyler “Loltyler1” Steinkamp also lost three ranks as compared to 2020. He is known for streaming his League of Legends games and this year his broadcasts got 75.8 million watch hours.
Except for Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar, all the other names on this list had increased their content hours to attract more audiences. It shows that there is high competitiveness to become the most-watched streamer on the Twitch TV platform.