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YouTube’s #1 channel has gotten the most views on the platform over the past two weeks. It has ascended to heights no other channels have reached, and it’s still climbing as we speak.
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Read on for more details about channels that got at least 220 million weekly views as the calendar turned over to December.
Chart Toppers
T-Series has the most lifetime views on YouTube, the most subscribers on YouTube, and, as of December 3, the highest view total of the week on YouTube. The Indian record label consolidated its already dominant position by adding 658.9 million weekly views to its YouTube-leading total. As long as T-Series maintains its current pace, it will become the first YouTube channel with at least 240 billion lifetime views by the time we publish our next weekly charts. Should that happen, the T-Series team can lead us in a celebratory dance.
The #1 channel in the U.S. Top 50 posted its second-straight runner-up finish in the global edition of our weekly ranking. Toys and Colors led the Global Top 50 for three consecutive weeks in November, and it has continued to post strong viewership numbers even after conceding pole position to T-Series. Between November 27 and December 3, Toys and Colors pulled in 513.8 million weekly views by entertaining toddlers with its multiformat array of vibrant videos. News flash: It turns out that kids really like playing with toys — and watching other kids play with them.
Anaya Kandhal completed an unchanged top three from the previous week’s Global Top 50. The Indian family channel ranked higher than any other short-form hub thanks to a seven-day view count that eclipsed the half-billion mark. Anaya Kandhal’s traffic sum topped out at 501.7 million weekly views. That’s one of the highest-ever view totals for one of YouTube Shorts’ fastest-rising stars. Kandhal and her family have collected about 12 billion lifetime views since they first turned on their YouTube channel in 2016.
The fourth-place finisher in this week’s Global Top 50 has a lot in common with Anaya Kandhal. Both channels operate on YouTube Shorts, both hail from India, and both have become regulars in our worldwide ranking. Unlike Kandhal, the fourth-ranked channel previously made it to the front of the Global Top 50. KL BRO Biju Rithvik may have fallen a bit since reaching that high point, but it’s still a major force on YouTube Shorts, where it picked up 472.9 million views during the week that was.
Yet another non-English-speaking channel rounds out this week’s global top five. ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING, which hails from Dubai, collected 441.4 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Channels from Belize don’t show up often in the Global Top 50, but when the Central American country’s blue-and-red banner shows up in the charts, it usually means one thing: Bonku is back in action.
Like many channels that operate primarily on YouTube Shorts, Bonku has achieved a huge amount of success in a limited amount of time. The Belize-based channel has only operated on YouTube for fewer than four years, but in that time, it has attracted nearly five million subscribers and about three billion lifetime views.
Movie clips are the building blocks of Bonku’s short-form dominance. The channel’s most-watched videos are film snippets that are dressed up with provocative titles and Shorts-approved editing choices. If you’ve ever wanted to see an entire action setpiece condensed into a one-minute frenzy of frenetic cuts, you’re not alone. A Bonku video depicting that exact scenario has been viewed more than 244 million times on YouTube.
That clip is not the only blockbuster on the Bonku channel. The upstart hub just had one of its best weeks on YouTube; it added 222.4 million weekly views and pushed its placement in the Global Top 50 up to 42nd place. Bonku’s seven-day performance represented a 14% week-over-week bump, and the channel’s weekly viewership was about five times larger than the population of Belize. Now that’s what I call a national hero.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 20 channels in the Top 50.
- United States: 13 channels in the Top 50.
- Pakistan: 4 channels in the Top 50.
- Russia: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Japan and South Korea: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Belgium, Belize, Canada, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 34 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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