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The most popular creator in the United States is beasting our Top 50 charts. For the second week in a row, his primary channel got more views than any other U.S.-based hub.
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While that creator is known for long-form spectacles, the other leading channels in the U.S. Top 50 operate primarily on YouTube Shorts.
Chart Toppers
MrBeast is still #1. Jimmy Donaldson‘s expensive and extravagant videos are outpacing all of his U.S.-based competition, and his regular activity on YouTube Shorts doesn’t hurt, either. When you combine its short-form and long-form outputs, the MrBeast channel recorded 491.2 million weekly views during the last full week of September. That gave it a cushion of 134 million views over the next-most watched U.S.-based channel. MrBeast now has more than 185 million subscribers in all.
Another individual creator ranked second in the latest U.S. Top 50. Alan Chikin Chow has long been a familiar face on YouTube Shorts, and he improved his chart position during our most recent seven-day measurement period. Thanks to a week-over-week traffic bump of 62%, Chow established himself as our U.S. runner up. He collected 357.4 million weekly views to bring his lifetime total within a stone’s throw of 30 billion. 30 seems to be a big number for Chow, as his subscriber count has now climbed above 30 million.
Jason Derulo, who led the U.S. Top 50 earlier in September, ranked third in the most recent edition of the chart. The pop star hasn’t put out a new LP in eight years, but he’s utilizing YouTube Shorts to ensure that his next album will be a hit. By attaching his new songs to viral short-form videos, Derulo picked up 344 million views during the week that was. If he can keep up the pace next week, he’ll surpass 13 billion lifetime views on his primary YouTube channel. Maybe he’ll be able to wiggle his way back to #1 in the near future.
Dylan Anderson made it four consecutive individual creators at the front of the U.S. Top 50. Like Derulo, Anderson collects noteworthy short-form content and adds his own commentary. That formula has made him one of the most successful Shorts creators since the format’s inception. Over seven days, he snagged 335.4 million weekly views to finish just behind Derulo in fourth place.
ViralHog rounded out the top five in the penultimate U.S. Top 50 of September. The YouTube Shorts hub added 310.1 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
When we interviewed Landen Purifoy four our Millionaires column earlier this year, the musical creator told us that he plans to make “money moves” on YouTube. Just a few months later, Purifoy is taking Shorts by storm. Thanks to his array of funny and tuneful videos, Purifoy has broken into the U.S. Top 50 ranking for the first time.
Purifoy breakout out thanks to a signature video format in which he combines household objects with talkbox vocals in order to create funky tunes. Those clips turned heads on TikTok, where Purifoy now counts more than 7.5 million followers.
In order to reach a similar audience on YouTube Shorts, Purifoy had to adapt to the most-watched trends on the Google-owned short-form hub. He found a way to turn his tried-and-true format into a challenge by asking viewers to guess the songs he’s improvising with his household objects. The results have been spectacular; one of those videos has earned 141 million views on YouTube Shorts.
Thanks to videos like these, Purifoy is making good on his promise to captivate the YouTube Shorts audience. His official channel just picked up 127.4 million weekly views, which was good for a week-over-week increase of 43%. That uptick propelled Purifoy into the U.S. Top 50, where he reached an all-time high ranking of 43rd.
With his creative music videos and his savvy understanding of short-form trends, Purifoy is giving us something to talk about. And thanks to his love of a particular piece of technology, that talk sounds quite funky indeed.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 39 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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