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Two weeks into the new year, we’ve had two different #1 finishers in the Global Top 50. This week’s top YouTube channel is returning to the #1 spot after hovering close to the top five for much of last year.
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Further down the ranking, a channel is making its first-ever appearance in the global top five.
Chart Toppers
MaviGadget occupied fifth place in last week’s Global Top 50, but it has now moved all the way up to #1. The YouTube Shorts hub actually got less viewership than what it received a week ago, but it moved up four places regardless. During a down week overall for YouTube traffic, MaviGadget pulled in 509.6 million weekly views. That sum was high enough to push the short-form channel past 17 billion lifetime views. I guess there’s a lot of people out there who like learning how various machines operate.
Last week’s #1 fell to second place in the latest Global Top 50. MrBeast continues to maintain a regular posting schedule, and that has kept him near the top of our rankings for years on end. After protecting a large sum of money, the man born Jimmy Donaldson is attacking the upper reaches of our charts. With 509.1 million weekly views, the main MrBeast channel is just a few thousand views behind MaviGadget. Don’t be surprised if it finds its way back to the driver’s seat approximately seven days from now.
Welcome to the top five, Diary of 4! Channels from Canada don’t often show up near the front of our charts, but this kid-friendly hub is proving itself to be an extraordinary exception. Diary of 4 reaches third place in the Global Top 50 during a week when it collected 482 million weekly views. Among channels that operate predominantly on YouTube Shorts, only MaviGadget got more views than Diary of 4 this week. The Canadian channel has more good news on the horizon as it approaches eight million lifetime views and five million subscribers.
Anaya Kandhal moved into fourth place in the Global Top 50. The Indian kidfluencer has become a regular presence in our rankings thanks to her ability to unite two vast audiences: Young children and non-English-speaking Indians. Those groups flocked to the Anaya Kandhal channel during the second week in January; it picked up 465.3 million weekly views to move from tenth place up to fourth.
ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING rounds out this week’s global top five. The highest-ranking channel based in the United Arab Emirates continued its strong YouTube Shorts performance with 409.2 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
In 2022, the outbreak of war in Ukraine shook up our weekly charts. Two years later, a similar phenomenon is occurring: News organizations that provide free, neutral coverage of the ongoing violence in Gaza can attract viewers from around the world.
One example is Jamuna TV, a news organization based in Bangladesh. Jamuna uses its YouTube channel to cover domestic and foreign affairs in great detail. It uploads dozens of videos every week and routinely gets millions of views, especially on its short-form content.
Jamuna’s most-watched videos mostly cover Bangladeshi news items, but the org’s reporting on the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars has expanded the scope of its audience. Daily “I-Desk” updates have routinely rolled up six-digit view counts, leading Jamuna to the most YouTube traffic it has ever received in a single week.
Lately, there has been plenty of local news for Jamuna to share alongside its international coverage. A contentious (and, according to the U.S. State Department, unfair) election has drawn millions of eyeballs to Jamuna’s YouTube channel. That hub picked up 224.8 million weekly views, reaching 39th place in the Global Top 50. That was good for a 57% week-over-week increase.
There will surely be no shortage of news in the coming months, and Jamuna is well-equipped to provide coverage for South Asian audiences. It is one of three channels from Bangladesh in this week’s 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 and United States: 12 channels in the Top 50.
- Pakistan: 4 channels in the Top 50.
- Bangladesh and Japan: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Canada and Vietnam: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Brazil, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates: 1 channel each in the Top 50.
This week, 32 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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