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This week, a trickshot channel caught our attention, but the channels at the front of the U.S. Top 50 didn’t need any tricks to reach the summit of our ranking. The top five chart leaders all pulled in at least 400 million weekly views.
Four of the top five finishers in the U.S. Top 50 also reached those heights last week, but there’s a new #1 atop the heap.
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Chart Toppers
MrBeast moved up two spots to claim the #1 spot in the U.S. Top 50. Jimmy Donaldson‘s primary YouTube channel typically experiences viewership surges in the days that follow new video releases, and the first week of April was no exception. Donaldson’s week-long trip to a remote island has already pulled in 100 million YouTube views, and its popularity led the MrBeast channel to another top-ranked finish in our charts. Between long-form content and Shorts, the MrBeast hub pulled in 496.3 million weekly views.
Like MrBeast, the #2 channel in the U.S. Top 50 gained viewership week-over-week. During the first week of April, Toys and Colors enjoyed a 10% boost that brought its seven-day total up to 474.4 million weekly views. The multiformat hub, which focuses on early childhood education, has now placed second in consecutive U.S. Top 50 rankings. At its current pace, Toys and Colors has a chance to eclipse 75 billion lifetime YouTube views before the end of the year.
Last week’s #1 fell two spots in this week’s U.S. Top 50. MaviGadget has emerged as one of YouTube’s biggest success stories of the past year. It has earned regular top-five finishes by serving the millions of viewers who love to watch oddly satisfying tool videos on Shorts. That audience delivered another big haul for MaviGadget during the first week of April. The short-form hub pushed its subscriber count above 25 million and received 472.8 million weekly views in all.
Another channel with experience in the #1 spot is ranked fourth in the latest U.S. Top 50. Vlad and Niki is one of the “big three” family vlogs that rank highly in our American charts week in and week out. (The other two members of that group, Like Nastya and Kids Diana Show, are ranked #17 and #22, respectively.) Vlad and Niki surged ahead of other family-friendly channels by adding 428.1 million weekly views. It now has more than 115 million total subscribers as well.
Rainbow Friends Fans rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. The Roblox-inspired channel dished out Gen Alpha memes to the tune of 424.8 million weekly views, most of which came on Shorts.
Top Gainers
Trick shot videos occupy an interesting space on YouTube. The kings of that category, Dude Perfect, have parlayed their basketball skills into a sprawling media empire that recently picked up a nine-digit funding round. But since their channel’s earliest days, the Dude Perfect guys have contended with a common question: How many tries does it take to hit the average trick shot?
Dude Perfect has recently shined light on that particular conundrum, but another hub is basing much of its approach around the time-consuming nature of trick shots. The channel is named Tricksters, and it adds multiple layers to its trick shot content.
Let’s start with the obvious: The Tricksters library contains a lot of impressive shots. Whether they’re taking ring toss to the next level or pulling off precise card tricks, the Tricksters always deliver satisfying videos that are filled with personality.
Another commonality among many of the most-watched Tricksters videos is the presence of captions that explain how long each trick shot took to complete. The group is honest about the difficulty of its stunts, but I find it interesting that most shots would appear to take the same amount of time if the added info were not included. There’s only one thing that sets particularly difficult tricks apart from the field — the ecstatic reactions they produce.
This approach has worked wonders for Tricksters. The group reached an all-time high in the U.S. Top 50 when it hit 30th place during the first week of April. It achieved that impressive finish thanks to its 143.9 million weekly views, which represented a 10% week-over-week increase. The following on the Tricksters YouTube channel continues to grow as well; the hub now reaches 3.67 million subscribers.
It may take the Tricksters a few hours to complete their trick shots, but their rise on YouTube has hardly been slow. Even if it takes them 36 hours to successfully throw a card into a sleeve at a distance, they can appreciate that their fans are just as interested in their failures as their successes.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 36 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
