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The channel that emerged as the champion of last week’s Global Top 50 ranking only managed a one-week reign at the top of the chart.
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This week, the most-watched YouTube channel of all time reestablished itself as the most-watched YouTube channel of the week. Lower down, several newcomers made themselves known.
Chart Toppers
T-Series didn’t quite top our Global Top 50 ranking on October 17, but seven days later, the Indian record label has pulled back ahead of the pack. Its arsenal of movie and music clips earned it 610.9 million weekly views, making it the only channel to cross the half-million view mark over our most-recent measurement period. T-Series also got its 205-billionth lifetime view this week.
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes was able to sneak ahead of T-Series last week, but the American family hub is back in more familiar territory during the third full week of October. With 498 million weekly views, Cocomelon is still the most-watched U.S.-based channel by a pretty wide margin. However, a 19% week-over-week traffic drop prevented Cocomelon from claiming that title across the world.
Third place goes to the other channel that I’ve designated as a member of this chart’s Big Three. SET India has eclipsed T-Series in the past, but these days, the South Asian TV hub is more likely to finish in the #3 spot than anywhere else. It locked up its latest visit to that position after collecting 472.9 million weekly views.
SET India’s sister channel is hot on its heels. Sony SAB, which has a focus on comedy content, doesn’t typically soar as high as SET India. This week, however, the less-watched channel was able to hold onto fourth place in the Global Top 50 after recording 366.7 million weekly views. That’s a lot of Hindi-language laughs.
Alan Chikin Chow rounds out this week’s global top five. The U.S.-based comedian, who first broke out on TikTok, is the highest-ranking YouTube Shorts creator in this week’s Top 50. His primary YouTube channel brought in 318.8 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
How much stuff can you fit in your hair? However much room you have up there, Simon Baker probably has more.
The creator, whose channel flies the Australian flag, is known for his huge afro. Though there are a lot of Shorts clips on the Simon Baker channel, the most-watched ones all feature the hair of the titular subject. Baker can use his ‘fro as a cheat sheet, an umbrella, and a shopping bag, if his popular clips are to be believed.
Like many short-form channels that wind up in our Global Top 50, there’s not a lot of information on Baker’s hub. The comments riffing on his multi-purpose hairstyle are the best evidence that Simon Baker is in fact the person in these videos.
There’s nothing odd about Baker’s numbers, though. Since launching on YouTube in March 2022, the hirsute creator has pulled in more than 683.2 million lifetime views. About 183 million of those views came during our most recent measurement period, when Baker upped his viewership by 72% week-over-week and reached 42nd place in our Global Top 50. His most-watched video also crossed 70 million views.
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Baker lands millions of views by merely threatening to cut off his ‘do. Imagine what would happen if he ever shaved it for real.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 16 channels in the Top 50.
- India: 12 channels in the Top 50.
- Turkey: 4 channels in the Top 50.
- Pakistan and Vietnam: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Japan: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Australia, China, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 26 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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