The trailer for the latest movie in the Star Wars franchise (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) was released a few hours ago. At Lead Stories we have been tracking the number of views it has racked up since it came out, and the results are impressive:

At the time this article was published the view counter already left the six million mark behind, with an impressive peak of 2.4 million views per hour about five hours after it came out, coinciding with morning in most of Europe. The chart in this article will keep updating automatically every hour, it will be interesting to see what happens when dawn breaks in the United States!

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