"With today’s launch of Cursed Sails, we’re excited to share with you that our community has reached a new milestone of five million pirates that have played Sea of Thieves thus far on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC."
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/07/31/sot-cursed-sails-available-now/
Was at 4 million during E3 so 1 million new players in about a month and a half.