5 trailers to League of Legends have a total of over 1.7 billion views on YouTube. MeinMMO shows you which ones they are.
What kind of list is this? Riot Games puts a lot of work and effort into producing trailers and videos for League of Legends. The studio collaborates with well-known bands, has the champions of the MOBA perform songs, and promotes the most important tournaments of the game.
Many videos from Riot about League of Legends have several hundred million views. We have gathered the 5 LoL videos that have the most clicks on YouTube (as of May 26, 2023).
POP/STARS – Music video with the fictional band K/DA
What kind of video is this? At some point over the last few years, Riot Games thought that developing successful games like League of Legends and Valorant wasn’t enough, and the decision was made to additionally become a production company for animated music videos.
For this, the company even created its own band from the champions of the popular MOBA. This band is called K/DA. However, it does not stand for kills, deaths, and assists, but for the three members of the band: Evelynn, Kai’Sa, and Akali.
The “trailer” is accordingly a music video for the song POP/STARS. The real musical part was taken on by Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns.
How many views does the video have? With over 533 million views, POP/STARS sits at the top of the LoL videos. Since its release in 2018, there have also been 5.9 million “likes” added (via YouTube).
Warriors, Worlds 2014 – Music video
What kind of video is this? The World Championships are the largest esports tournaments in League of Legends. The best teams in the world compete against each other once a year to determine the sporting dominance among themselves at the “Worlds”.
Riot Games likes to release animated videos with musical accompaniment in this context. For the Worlds 2014, the development studio landed the band “Imagine Dragons.” The subsequent collaboration around the song “Warriors” was very well received by many fans.
How many views does the video have? The LoL video for Warriors collected over 401 million views and 3.4 million “likes” on YouTube. In a comment with over 33,000 likes, a user also mentions that although he does not play LoL, the video is so good that he wants it now.
RISE, Worlds 2018 – Music video
What kind of video is this? Like “Warriors”, “RISE” was released as part of the LoL World Championship and was intended to excite players and fans about the tournament in 2018.
Like POP/STARS, RISE was written and produced by Riot Games’ music team. The musical implementation was handled by The Glitch Mob, Mako, and The Word Alive.
How many views does the video have? The video for RISE has been viewed a strong 340 million times since 2018 (via YouTube).
Legends Never Die, Worlds 2017 – Music video
What kind of video is this? “Legends Never Die” is also one of the annually released hype music videos from Riot Games with which the studio wants to promote the Worlds, in this case, the World Championship 2017.
The music of the video was once again produced by Riot Games and arranged by the American pop/rock band “Against the Current.”
On the YouTube channel of League of Legends, there is another video for “Legends Never Die,” which, however, contains no animations but only a still image. However, this version includes the official audio file. The video for the Worlds 2017 has added audience cheers that are supposed to represent ecstatic viewers.
How many views does the video have? The video for Legends Never Die has 240 million views on YouTube. The second version with the official audio file has 229 million and therefore is also just ahead of the fifth video on the list.
Enemy, LoL series Arcane
What kind of video is this? Enemy is a video for the successful “League of Legends” series “Arcane” and was published for its marketing on the League of Legends channel in 2021.
Musically, Riot Games relied on a proven successful recipe and chose once again the band Imagine Dragons, who were additionally supported by the American rapper JID.
How many views does the video have? The LoL music video for Enemy collected nearly 228 million views on YouTube since its release in October 2021.
Thus, Enemy is at the bottom of our list, but still impressively demonstrates the reach of League of Legends.
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