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Three of the top five channels in the U.S. Top 50 got fewer views during the last week of April than during the penultimate stretch. Despite those declines, six U.S.-based channels got at least 300 million views during our most recent seven-day measurement period.
It was a particularly strong week for individual creators, three of whom landed in the American top five.
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Chart Toppers
One of those individual creators reached the top spot in our all-American ranking. MrBeast returned to the territory he has occupied more frequently than any other U.S.-based channel since the start of 2024. Thanks to his latest long-form video, which featured a cast of all ages, MrBeast raked in 486.8 million weekly views on his primary YouTube channel. The man whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson continues to lead all U.S.-based channels in terms of subscribers, with 254 million of them.
Another channel with plenty of experience in our U.S. Top 50 ranked second in the latest iteration of the chart. MaviGadget has used its library of satisfying, machinery-focused videos to become a regular #1 contender in our weekly U.S. charts. Though it fell just short of that goal at the end of April, it came close to MrBeast’s total by accruing 435.5 million weekly views. By this time next month, we expect MaviGadget to surpass 25 billion lifetime views.
Toys and Colors, like the two channels above it, has sat in the first-place seat at some point during 2024. Last week, it sat in the #2 spot, but it dropped to third after losing 1% of its viewership week-over-week. That small decline left Toys and Colors with 414 million weekly views, which brought its lifetime total above 63 billion. Toys and Colors also counts 54.9 million subscribers; only five channels that placed in this week’s U.S. Top 50 have more.
The creator who landed in first place in last week’s U.S. Top 50 dropped back to fourth during the last week of April. Illusionist Justin Flom has enjoyed a magical run to the top of the charts thanks to his consistent posting schedule and his ability to combine short-form and long-form formats. This week, that combo drew 386.2 million weekly views for Flom; that total was 28% lower than the magic man’s chart-topping sum from a week ago, but Flom is still on pace to reach 20 billion lifetime views before the end of May.
Alan Chikin Chow rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. The creator behind some of the funniest YouTube Shorts comedy videos collected 328.3 million views during the week that was.
Top Gainers
We could spend all day analyzing the unusual characters and wacky jokes that have defined the first few years of Gen Alpha internet culture. But in the opinion of this humble writer, there are more interesting conclusions we can draw by observing the influence of older generations on YouTube’s youngest cohort.
BBOY’S is one channel that is applying tried-and-true internet formats to the bizarre brand of content that appeals (primarily) to Gen A. Like many other channels that cracked this week’s U.S. Top 50. BBOY’S is an animation hub that gets most of its views on YouTube Shorts.
I don’t know enough about elementary school memes or Roblox modes to identify all of the characters who show up in the most popular BBOY’S Shorts, but I can appreciate the space BBOY’S occupies in the long tradition of gamified content on YouTube. Its titles, which prompt viewers to pick one of two options, harken back to the choose-your-own-adventure videos proliferated by YouTube’s most creative voices. The video descriptions asking viewers to “vote” by either commenting or liking are yet another gamified twist — and an easy way to drive up traffic.
These strategies worked wonders for BBOY’S during the last week of April. The animation hub earned its first-ever placement in the U.S. Top 50, landing in 49th place in our American ranking. It achieved that high water mark thanks to a seven-day total of 100.2 million weekly views. That was 85% more views that BBOY’S previous weekly sum and its first-ever nine-digit haul.
I think we can be pretty sure that two things will happen: BBOY’S will continue to grow on YouTube by appealing to the platform’s Gen A community, and I will continue to recognize few of the characters that appear in the channel’s videos.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 40 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
