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The most notable Top 50 trend of 2022 continued to make headlines in our second-to-last chart of the year. There are more YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50 than ever before.
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Despite all that short-form representation, a long-standing long-form hub continues to lead the way in our all-American ranking.
Chart Toppers
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes is the first U.S.-based channel to ever reach 150 million subscribers. The California-based producer of animations and jingles reached that milestone just before the end of 2022, and it will be heading into the new year on a high note. With 522.4 million weekly views, Cocomelon managed to maintain its hold on the #1 position in the U.S. Top 50 chart. Early in 2023, the channel is expected to cross 150 billion lifetime views as well.
The creator who is right behind Cocomelon in the U.S. Top 50 is making his first-ever appearance as our American runner-up. Dylan Anderson has used YouTube Shorts videos to increase his profile in 2022, and that upward trend continued all the way to the end of the year. Anderson collected 410.7 million weekly views during our most-recent seven-day measurement period. That 32% week-over-week bump moved Anderson from fourth place in the U.S. Top 50 up to second.
Another individual creator is hot on Dylan Anderson’s heels in the U.S. Top 50. MrBeast is best known for long-form videos filled with stunts and exravagant sets, but his YouTube Shorts videos are propelling him toward the front of our U.S. Top 50. Those micro-videos have helped the man named Jimmy Donaldson reach third place in our star-spangled ranking. With 389.7 million weekly views, the MrBeast channel has become one of the most-watched hubs in the world, no matter how frequently its star uploads new work.
Mr DegrEE holds the #4 spot in our latest U.S. Top 50. Like Dylan Anderson, this entitled creator is surging forward thanks to his work on YouTube Shorts. His 351 million weekly views represent a 77% week-over-week viewership bump. That uptick has led Mr DegrEE to an eight-spot jump in the U.S. chart.
Kids Diana Show rounds out our U.S. top five for the second week in a row. The titular kidfluencer picked up 328.8 million weekly views on her central YouTube channel.
Top Gainers
Elliot Tebele‘s long, dramatic career as a content aggregator has taken a fresh twist. Tebele is the man behind the infamous account known as Fuckjerry, which is as popular as it is controversial.
For the uninitiated, here’s the basic story: Fuckjerry rose to prominence by compiling top clips on platforms like Instagram, but Tebele found himself in hot water because he didn’t always give proper credit to the original creators of the clips he collected.
Instagram has cracked down on account like Fuckjerry and has shifted its algorithm to promote original content, but Tebele has found a new home for his aggregating: YouTube Shorts. As the Fuckjerry brand expands, Tebele is focusing on “owned or licensed” content that can “amplify diverse voices and unite creators,” according to the About page on the Fuckjerry YouTube channel.
That doesn’t mean that Fuckjerry is always fresh. One of the channel’s most-watched Shorts is this old paper airplane clip that has been passed around the internet for months.
The clips shared on Fuckjerry may be old, but the channel is getting plenty of new viewers. On YouTube, Tebele’s hub snagged 124 million weekly views during the penultimate week of 2022. That pushed the nascent channel up to 300 million lifetime views, and it snuck into the U.S. Top 50 in the very last spot.
The message is clear: Platforms may be swapping their algorithms to make life difficult for aggregators, but there’s still plenty of viewership to be had with that strategy.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 39 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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