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The first full week of December brought a new leader to the front of our Global Top 50.
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This channel and its main have swapped between #1 and #2 over the past four weeks. They’re still in those spots, and they remain well ahead of the rest of the field.
Chart Toppers
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes got more views over seven days than any other YouTube channel. During our latest measurement period, the Candle Media-controlled producer of kid-friendly animations picked up 635.6 million weekly views. While that may seem like a pedestrian total for a channel that once got a billion views in a single week, it was still a 5% week-over-week traffic increase and a high enough sum to move into first place in the Global Top 50.
As Cocomelon gained viewership, T-Series saw its own traffic take a slight dip. The Indian record label dropped to second place in the Global Top 50 after accruing 622.9 million weekly views. Though that represents a 4% week-over-week dip, T-Series can still claim the titles of most-watched and most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time.
The channel that is #3 all-time in terms of both lifetime viewership and subscribers is also #3 in this week’s Global Top 50. SET India rarely makes it past the other two members of this ranking’s “big three,” but it is still outpacing the rest of the world by a significant margin. In our latest count, the Sony-owned TV hub recorded 518.5 million weekly views, which pushed its lifetime viewership past 135 billion. Its continued success shows the power of the Indian TV audience.
The highest-ranking YouTube Shorts channel in this week’s Global Top 50 took fourth place. Hasan Tarhan, a Turkish creator who often tells funny family stories, received 363.4 million weekly views. He asks viewers to subscribe in the titles of his videos, and that strategy seems to be working. He now has more than 4.1 million subscribers in total.
Su Hao rounds out this week’s global top five. The Vietnamese channel got 344.6 million weekly views, which allowed it to move up 11 spots in our ranking. The rising channel has more than three billion lifetime views in all.
Top Gainers
Short-form video has changed the music world. In this space, we’ve talked about the strategies that groups like Triple Charm are using to climb the charts on YouTube and beyond.
Sue DJ is another artist who is furthering her career with her exploits on YouTube Shorts and TikTok. With her long pink hair and matching eyeshadow, Sue is a hard person to miss on your Shorts feed. And if you don’t notice her get-up, the pulsating beats of her music might stop you from swiping past her videos.
Though Sue uses her own songs as the soundtrack of her Shorts, the videos themselves command plenty of attention. Her most-watched video defies logic and good taste. As her song ‘Busy Bee’ throbs in the background, Sue combines a Barbie with a tube of toothpaste to conjure a DIY creation that must be seen to be believed:
This video, which has more than 27 million views, is pacing Sue in our Global Top 50. The DJ got 193.9 million views during the week that was, which led her to 47th place in our worldwide ranking. Her latest seven-day total accounts for nearly two-thirds of her YouTube channel’s lifetime viewership.
Sue is using her ascendance to invite viewers to her personal membership club, where she and her fans will make memes together. Despite her strange videos, Sue’s club has a simple goal: “If I can dance,” she says, “you can too.”
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 22 channels in the Top 50.
- India: 10 channels in the Top 50.
- Vietnam: 4 channels in the Top 50.
- Turkey: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Japan, Pakistan and South Korea: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Germany, Latvia, Mexico, Moldova, and Russia: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 28 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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