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The first five channels in this week’s Global Top 50 hail from five different countries. Overall, it was a particularly international week in the chart, with 21 different countries represented.
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The nation with the third-most representatives in the ranking is home to the current #1 channel.
Chart Toppers
KIMPRO has had an up-and-down year in our Global Top 50, but during the first full week of September, the former first-place finisher landed back in the driver’s seat. The Korean channel got more YouTube views than any other hub, picking up 830.8 million weekly views during our latest seven-day measurement period. KIMPRO rode a 56% week-over-week bump to first place, but even if it had gotten 200 million weekly views, it would still have enough to claim the #1 spot.
Celine Dept‘s incredible summer is continuing into September. The Belgian creator, who has captivated soccer fans by completing challenges and imitating star players, is the runner-up in this week’s Global Top 50. She collected 629.9 million weekly views to equal her highest-ever finish in our ranking. Dept landed in third a week ago but moved up after gaining a 19% week-over-week viewership increase. She actually owns two of the channels in this week’s Top 50; she can also be found alongside her partner Michiel on a joint channel that currently ranks 44th in our worldwide chart.
Last week’s #1 dropped two spots to end up in third place in the Global Top 50. T-Series actually gained 4% more views this week than it did during the week prior, but other channels achieved larger percentage gains to leap past it. Even though T-Series has to settle for #3, it still leads YouTube in terms of lifetime views, and it could get subscriber #250 million next week. Its latest seven-day total topped out at 585.8 million weekly views.
Jason Derulo is wiggling his way up the Global charts. After using YouTube Shorts to add his new music to viral clips, Derulo has become a short-form sensation. He just upped his traffic by 44% week-over-week to reach 570.8 million weekly views. Derulo now has more than 12 million lifetime views on his official YouTube channel, and thanks to his activity on Shorts, his official music videos have contributed only a small portion of that 11-digit sum.
ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING rounds out this week’s global top five. The most-watched YouTube channel from the United Arab Emirates added to its impressive total by picking up 565.2 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Caín Guzmán is rocketing up the charts. The Mexican short-form star has shared hundreds of vertical videos on YouTube in 2023 alone, and that expanding library is starting to show results.
During the first full week of September, Guzmán doubled his YouTube viewership week-over-week while quartering his ranking in our Global chart: A week after he sat in the 88th position, he’s now up to 22nd. His final seven-day tally topped out at 356 million weekly views, which brought his lifetime YouTube viewership above five billion.
Those numbers would be astonishing for many creators, but Guzmán is no stranger to short-form success. By filming a wide array of video ideas — his uploads range from pranks to moralizing pet adoption clips to couple content — Guzmán has become a huge hit on TikTok, where he has more than 25 million followers.
His YouTube audience isn’t quite as big, but it’s growing. In one of his most-watched YouTube Shorts uploads, he instructs viewers to seize every moment and take leaps of faith. As a matter of fact, that’s exactly what he’s done with his accelerating YouTube presence.
Guzmán has been making short-form videos for more than five years and is part of a growing Mexican community that also includes creators like Kimberly Loaiza, Rod Contreras, and Domelipa. Even with all that star power, Guzmán is the only Mexican creator in this week’s Global Top 50. Perhaps his contemporaries should take a page out of the “creative boy” playbook.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 15 channels in the Top 50.
- India: 8 channels in the Top 50.
- South Korea: 4 channels in the Top 50
- Japan and Russia: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Belgium: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Brazil, El Salvador, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 33 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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