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2023 ended like 2023 began – with T-Series on top.
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Chart Toppers
The Indian multi-hyphenate, multimedia conglomerate, and perennial chart-topper T-Series closed out the year in the #1 spot with 692 million views on the week. In a distant second is the United States’ very own MrBeast. Jimmy Donaldson’s main YouTube channel jumped up 15% in views to close out the year with more than 568.7 million of them.
Coming in at a distant third is another U.S. channel. MaviGadget jumped up in its weekly view count last week 42% to find its way into the Top 5. Now its up another 5% week-over-week in views to over 458.7 million thanks to global consumerism and the human penchant for inventions (that may or may not really work). Next up in a not-so-distant fourth place is Anaya Kandhal. The India-based family channel was down 22% on the week, but still amassed an incredible 444.6 million views.
And rounding out the Top 5 once again is Diary of 4. The Filipino-Canadian Santiago family and its various hijinx brought in more than 436.9 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Yoeslan Alfaro is a 39-year-old Cuban-American content creator who started his YouTube channel back in 2020 with uploads featuring a generic, kinda-scary-looking-but-not-too-scary reaper figure who hides under the bed and gets up to various family friendly shenanigans with the normal human being who lives in the house. It’s like a modern version of The Old Couple for an international audience of infants and prepubescents. Since then, the universe has expanded to other characters – there’s a generic, kinda scary masked clown among sporadic other non-Monster-related skits throughout – and the channel’s skyrocketed to 26 million subscribers and over 23 billion lifetime views.
Yoeslan regularly uploads one or two Shorts per day and one long-form video a week that dives into a slightly expanded storyline. It’s the short-form content, though, that’s driving the views. Just in the last 90 days Yoeslan’s averaged over 12 million views per short-form video, while his long form content generally gets around 120,000 views per video.
Regardless of length, all the videos follow the basic premise of the Monster getting up to no good and Yoeslan putting him in his place. Or the Monster doing something very unmonsterlike with his monster friends. Here’s how they all rung in the New Year (which has already been watched at least 2.6 million times):
The celebration helped Yoeslan’s channel to more than 218 million views on the week. That’s up 34% from the week prior and good enough to put him in the #46 spot on your Global Top 50.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 14 channels in the Top 50.
- United States: 11 channels in the Top 50.
- Pakistan: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Canada, Japan, Russia, Vietnam: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, El Salvador, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia, Spain, South Korea, Turkey and United Arab Emirates: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 37 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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