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Among the 50 most-watched U.S.-based YouTube channels during the third week of June, only nine have a significant presence on the long-form version of YouTube. A Shorts channel even dethroned MrBeast at the top of our all-American ranking.
Music fans will find a few curious insights in this week’s U.S. Top 50. Here’s the scoop:
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Chart Toppers
The top five channels in this week’s U.S. Top 50 is a crowded bunch, but Jason Derulo was able to separate himself from the pack. The singer-songwriter has become a regular factor in these charts thanks to his activity on Shorts. He promotes his music by attaching it to some of the most widely-circulated short-form videos on YouTube. That’s right: The man who was once “Ridin’ Solo” is now a serial reposter who gets 565.1 million weekly views. And yes, feel free to use “Jason Derulo’s Meme Account” for your next trivia team name.
J House jr. has equaled its highest-ever finish in the U.S. Top 50. The family-oriented Shorts channel has had a breakout year so far in 2024, and its fortunes improved during our most recent seven-day measurement period. With a library full of bright and colorful Shorts content, J House jr. increased its traffic by 11% week-over-week to reach 562.4 million weekly views. The current chart leader among U.S.-based family channels now has more than four billion lifetime views, and it’s on track to cross the five million mark sometime in July.
MrBeast is in third place in the U.S. Top 50. The most-watched and most-subscribed individual American creator on YouTube has seen his weekly traffic decline since he pulled in 1.3 billion weekly views at the start of June. This time out, MrBeast finished our latest measurement period with 531.9 million weekly views, which was 25% less traffic than his previous seven-day sum. In spite of that viewership decline, Jimmy Donaldson can say that he’s one of the few creators in this week’s U.S. Top 50 who isn’t predominantly active on Shorts (even if he does have a sizable presence within that format).
Another individual creator is sitting in fourth place in the U.S. Top 50. Alan Chikin Chow was the fourth of four channels with at least 500 million weekly views during the third week of June. With 507.3 million weekly views, Chow barely cleared that benchmark while also bringing his lifetime YouTube traffic above 40 billion. It was also a big week for Chow in other ways. The man known for his YouTube Shorts comedy videos has signed with talent agency CAA, which will represent him as he continues to stake out his place on our leaderboard.
MaviGadget rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. The short-form stalwart used its library of tool-focused videos to collect 482.5 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Jason Derulo isn’t the only musician who is using YouTube Shorts to increase the size of his following. Another individual riding a wave of short-form traffic is Magelias Kristofer, the producer known as Prvnci.
Once upon a time, Prvnci’s output on YouTube was focused around his long-form videos, which he used to share the songs he produced and performed. The advent of Shorts, however, has changed the nature of Prvnci’s output. He now gets millions of views with Shorts that follow curious members of the animal kingdom. Prvnci explains that change simply with a line in his channel description: “We are all animals.”
Like Jason Derulo, Prvnci uses short-form aggregation as a vehicle for sharing music. His songs and beats typically serve as the soundtrack for his short-form uploads, and in some cases, he even tries to sync up his music with the movement of a particular animal. Videos featuring cute animals were already a popular choice on YouTube Shorts, and many of those clips are improved with the inclusion of a hip-hop soundscape.
The Shorts audience took a liking to Prvnci’s digital zoo during the third week of June. That’s when Kristoffer’s primary YouTube channel received 127.5 million weekly views, which was 11% more traffic than the amount it recorded in the previous week. Prvnci isn’t quite in Jason Derulo territory yet, but he hasn’t been active on Shorts for nearly as long. The more work he puts in on his animal videos, the higher he’ll rise in the U.S. Top 50. Right now, he finds himself in 35th place.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 41 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
