On January 25, the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship — M7 World Championship — came to an end. Esports Charts shared the tournament’s viewership statistics.
The championship grand final between Aurora Gaming PH and Alter Ego ended with a 4–0 scoreline. The match peaked at over 5.6 million concurrent viewers. The tournament itself generated 135.5 million hours watched. By both of these metrics, M7 set new records for mobile esports.
Previously, the record for peak concurrent viewers belonged to the Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore, which was watched simultaneously by 5.4 million fans.
M7 also set several additional records:
- The all-time esports viewership record for Indonesian-language broadcasts.
- The all-time esports viewership record for Tagalog-language broadcasts.
- The all-time esports viewership record for Malay-language broadcasts.
- The all-time esports viewership record for broadcasts on TikTok.
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