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Top TikTok channels are beginning to post more frequently on YouTube Shorts. As a result, this week’s Global Top 50 features a plethora of chart newcomers.
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However, the top channels in the ranking, including the reigning #1 finisher, are all YouTube stalwarts.
Chart Toppers
Though there were a lot of movers and shakers in this week’s chart, T-Series is still on top of the world. The Indian record label continues to control the most-watched YouTube channel in the world on both a per-week and all-time basis. Over a seven-day period, the T-Series archive of music videos and music clips pulled in 639.5 million weekly views. India’s biggest channel now has more than 225 million subscribers as well; that total also leads YouTube.
Another channel from the world’s second-most populous country repeated as the #2 finisher in our Global Top 50. Like T-Series, SET India provides a new home for content that originated on TV screens. The Sony-owned channel continues to hit it big on YouTube by giving South Asian audiences easy access to their favorite shows. In return, those viewers provided SET India with 584.6 million weekly views in our latest count.
Last week, I discussed the idea of a “big three” at the top of our Global Top 50. Sure enough, those channels took the top spots in our latest chart as well: T-Series was first, SET India was second, and Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes completed the trifecta. The U.S.-based animated sing-along channel continues to outpace all other hubs in its home country. After picking up 580.1 million weekly views, Cocomelon was almost able to surge past SET India into the #2 spot, but not quite.
The fourth-place finisher in our Global Top 50 was able to improve its chart position by nine spots after getting 50% more views than it received a week ago. Kids Diana Show often trails other family vlogs in terms of weekly viewership, but by gaining 442 million weekly views, the globetrotting channel was able to leave Like Nastya, Vlad & Niki, and LeoNata Family in its rearview mirror.
This week, One More is the highest-ranked YouTube Shorts channel in our Global Top 50 and the #5 channel overall. The subsidiary of a Cyprus-based media company earned 413.2 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
A YouTube Shorts channel from Australia is one of many short-form hubs committed to inspirational content. Zane Holmes, a creator from Australia, is one of several TikTok stars who has taken his channel to YouTube and our Global Top 50.
Holmes’ YouTube channel is still pretty new. The 220.8 million weekly views he recorded during the last full week of September account for about one-third of his lifetime YouTube traffic. Holmes nearly tripled that traffic week-over-week, which allowed him to reach 29th place in the Global Top 50. He was the only Australian representative in our latest worldwide ranking.
Though many of Holmes’ top videos are the sort of heartwarming fluff that is common in the short-form world, one of his biggest hits deserves special attention. Holmes is one of the creators who has put together a “Black Ariel” supercut. By showing how excited Black people got when they saw a Little Mermaid who looked like them, Holmes celebrated the power of representation — and got about 28 million views in the process.
Though Holmes was uploading videos on TikTok before he came to YouTube Shorts, his viewership on the latter platform has already surpassed what he pulls in on the former. With the imminent arrival of ads on Shorts, YouTube’s micro-video community will only grow more powerful.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 18 channels in the Top 50.
- India: 12 channels in the Top 50.
- Pakistan and South Korea: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- United Kingdom and Vietnam: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Australia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Turkey: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 29 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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