Fortnite has finally done it. Tonight’s Remix Finale event has at last beaten the game’s long-standing concurrent player record for a live concert, set back in 2020 when 12.3 million players tuned in for the first broadcast of its lockdown-era Travis Scott concert.
14.3 million people were in-game tonight for Fortnite’s Remix Finale event, according to the game’s public player stats, while millions more were watching online via Twitch and YouTube.
That’s higher than the 9.8 million watching in-game earlier this month when the Fortnite Remix mini-season kicked off with a livestreamed concert in Times Square featuring Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice. It’s more than double the 5.6 million players who logged in for October’s hour-long Doctor Doom boss battle. And perhaps most impressively, it’s also higher than last December’s much-hyped The Big Bang event, which was attended by 10 million players at the end of the game’s hugely popular OG season.
The only event to ever get higher within Fortnite was its Marvel season finale featuring Galactus, again back during the lockdown era of 2020, when 15.3 million people were in-game.
It’s been a while since Fortnite itself has commented on its own player stats. Tonight, Epic Games noted the Remix Finale’s huge attendance and it confirmed it was a record for any Fortnite concert event. Excluding concerts – which draw huge engagement but are brief affairs – Epic Games last noted a player milestone at the launch of last year’s OG season. Then, an astonishing 44 million players logged in over 24 hours, for Fortnite’s biggest day ever. (Could this record be broken next week, when Fortnite OG returns as a permanent mode?)