It is reportedly on course to be the most-watched trailer of all time after picking up more than 50m views in its first few days of release. But the teaser for JJ Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been beaten into second place for the most popular trailer in 2014 by the debut glimpse of mega-hyped “mommy porn” literary adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey.
The teaser for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s sex drama, which stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as kinky business magnate Christian Grey and his blushing virginal paramour, Anastasia Steele, has been viewed more than 93m times since debuting on 24 July.
The Force Awakens comes in second on a list compiled by YouTube partner Zefr, having picked up more than 81m views in a much shorter time: it only hit the web on 28 November.
Third on the list is the trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which generated plenty of buzz after leaking online in October ahead of a planned debut screening via Marvel TV show Agents of Shield. It has since picked up 78m views.
The top five was rounded out by the trailers for sci-fi sequel Jurassic World, with 64m views since 25 November, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with 58m views since March.
Most viewed trailers on YouTube of 2014
1. Fifty Shades of Grey (93m views)
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (81m views)
3. The Avengers: Age of Ultron (78m views)
4. Jurassic World (64m views)
5. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (58m views)
6. Furious 7 (58m views)
7. Minions (54m views)
8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (45m views)
9. Dumb and Dumber To (44m views)
10. Interstellar (39m views)
