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The most-watched YouTube channel of all time is on a roll. It just claimed a #1 finish for the second week in a row after being a runner-up for most of the summer.
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There’s only one new entrant in the top five after a week that didn’t bring much change to our Global Top 50.
The Top 5
🥇 T-Series is not getting views at its fastest rate ever, but it is pretty close. The Indian record label was the most-watched YouTube channel of the week once again after picking up 842.8 million weekly views over our latest seven-day measurement period. That total was 13% higher than the sum T-Series posted during the previous week. The most-watched YouTube channel of all time now has 267.7 billion lifetime views, and that’s not the only milestone it has achieved. It just became the second YouTube channel with at least 275 million subscribers.
🥈 Toys and Colors moved up one spot to serve as the runner-up in this week’s Global Top 50. It earned its second-place finish after increasing its YouTube traffic by 8% week-over-week. That uptick brought Toys and Colors up to 736.7 million weekly views. The channel’s sustained growth — it should reach 75 billion lifetime YouTube views next week — is a testament to the ever-growing audience of babies, toddlers, and tykes on the world’s top video platform. As long as that audience continues to show up, expect Toys and Colors to stick around in our rankings.
🥉 KIMPRO is up next in the Global Top 50. The Korean short-form hub dropped one spot after serving as the runner-up a week ago, but that downturn didn’t have much to do with its viewership. KIMPRO’s YouTube traffic only fell by 1%, leaving the channel with 712.5 million weekly views. In many of our charts, that total would be high enough to claim the #1 spot, but with two channels surging in front of KIMPRO, the home of viral Shorts content will have to settle for third.
🌟 Anaya Kandhal‘s cool-off is still in full effect, but the channel that dominated these charts over the past three months isn’t falling off the map entirely. Instead, the leading Indian family channel has settled into fourth place, which it is occupying for the second week in a row. Young Anaya and her parents managed to increase their traffic by 11% week-over-week, but that boost wasn’t big enough to pull the Kandhals out of fourth place. But the channel’s total of 709.3 million weekly views is high enough to impress even the most seasoned Shorts analysts.
✨ KL Bro Biju Rithvik is the fifth-place finisher in this week’s Global Top 50. The Indian channel rounded out the global top five after collecting 674.3 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
In our previous chart update, we discussed how commentary channels are becoming the new hotness in the world of Shorts. Our analysis focused on channels in the United States, but the rise of viral commentary hubs is not just a U.S. thing. That trend is also making a dent in our Global Top 50, where hubs like Antariksh Yatra are rising up the rankings.
Antariksh Yatra literally translates to “space travel” in Hindi, and as the channel’s rocket ship emblem indicates, it is ostensibly a source for content related to the great beyond. In practice, however, Antariksh Yatra looks a bit different from the way NASA fans might imagine it.
Its most-watched videos (all of which are Shorts) depict viral slice-of-life situations, with the faceless narrator’s voice overlaid on top of the proceedings. In other words, it’s very similar to what you’d find on channels like Zack D. Films or Dylan Anderson, except it’s in Hindi (with English-language video titles).
Commentary videos like these have become so big that they’re even fueling channels that are supposed to be fueled by, well, rocket fuel. Antariksh Yatra reached 27th place during the final week of September, when it collected 303.8 million weekly views. That was 70% more traffic than it earned during the previous week, and it rose from 89th place up to its current position.
That’s the type of growth that is reserved for a select few categories on YouTube Shorts. Of course, if Antariksh Yatra wants to return to its original niche, that kind of content is pretty big on the Indian side of YouTube as well.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 16
- India: 13
- Pakistan: 3
- Canada, Hong Kong, and Indonesia: 2
- Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Czechia, El Salvador, Germany, Kazakhstan, Japan, South Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 29 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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