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Though we’re now in a new month in the Global Top 50, our weekly rundown of the world’s most-watched YouTube channels hasn’t changed much since April. The top five channels are the same ones as last week and their running order has shifted only slightly.
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The lack of movement is good news for the four Indian channels to continue to serve as the Global Top 50 frontrunners.
Chart Toppers
Anaya Kandhal cannot be stopped. Though she’s only a toddler, young Anaya and her family have gotten the most views on YouTube for five consecutive weeks. Their primary YouTube hub saw its viewership go up by 8% week-over-week to reach 821.5 million weekly views. Anaya Kandhal now has more than 23 billion lifetime views in all, and the Indian channel is approaching record-setting territory. Only one channel (CoComelon) has ever received one billion YouTube views in a single week.
The #2 channel in the Global Top 50 is not nearly as close to the one-billion-views-in-a-week threshold, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a record-setter itself. T-Series is the most-watched and most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time, and it has followed behind Anaya Kandhal as the chart runner-up for five weeks in a row. T-Series retained its second-place status by picking up 661.4 million weekly views at the start of May. That sum pushed its YouTube-leading lifetime traffic total above 254 billion hits.
KL Bro Biju Rithvik made sure that there was space for two family-friendly Indian channels in the top three spots of this week’s Global Top 50. The channel known for its use of the regional language Malayalam has become one of its country’s greatest hits since the 2021 advent of YouTube Shorts. With its adorable short-form videos, KL Bro Biju Rithvik collected 532.6 million weekly views during our most recent seven-day measurement period. That haul was high enough to earn a third-place finish.
The geeta gurjar fell back one spot to land in fourth place in the Global Top 50. Geeta — who, like two of the channels above her, is a family-conscious creator based in India — couldn’t keep pace with KL Bro Biju Rithvik even though she achieved an all-time high ranking last week. Even though her Global Top 50 placement has gone down by one, the geeta gurjar is still a major force in our Tubefilter charts. She hauled in 530.9 million views during the week that was, bringing her lifetime total above 16 billion.
MrBeast rounds out this week’s global top five. The highest-ranking U.S.-based channel in our worldwide ranking held onto its previous chart position by accruing 525 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
We’ve already written at length about the popularity of culinary content on YouTube. Channels like Aja Kitchen and Nick DiGiovanni have reeled in millions of subscribers and billions of views by finding simple, satisfying ways to share complex recipes. If you get enough food content in your recommendation algorithm, you can become a skilled home chef without leaving your feed.
There are other cooking channels, however, that aren’t quite as useful as their gourmet counterparts. One of those less useful — but still entertaining — culinary hubs is Czechia’s lone representative in this week’s Global Top 50. I’m talking about chefkoudy, who is the flavor of the week in YouTube’s short-form universe.
Unlike on Nick DiGiovanni’s channel, visitors to chefkoudy’s YouTube home won’t learn how to prepare a fancy meal. That doesn’t mean they’ll walk away without useful information. Thanks to the time I spent on chefkoudy’s channel, I now know that I’ve been eating Toblerone chocolates incorrectly this entire time.
The lessons learned from chefkoudy sometimes stray from the culinary world. He may not teach his subscribers how to make sushi, but he shows them how to make a foot look like a hand. And if you’re truly a person of culture, you can try the “espresso on coffee” trick that has earned millions of views for chefkoudy.
With dozens of uploads over one million views, chefkoudy has become the most-watched YouTube creator in his home country and one of the 50 most-watched creators in the world. During the first week of May, he collected 259.7 million weekly views, which was 34% more traffic than what he earned the week prior.
As chefkoudy moved from 69th place in our ranking up to 32nd, he approached a major milestone: Next week, if he keeps up his current pace, he will reach ten billion lifetime views on YouTube. That’s an occasion that will definitely call for a celebratory piece of Toblerone.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 19 channels in the Top 50.
- United States: 11 channels in the Top 50.
- Hong Kong and Pakistan: 3 channels in the Top 50.
- Russia and South Korea: 2 channels in the Top 50.
- Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, El Salvador, Japan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam: 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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