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The top four channels in this week’s Global Top 50 are making it harder to keep up with their pace. They all saw week-over-week viewership increases, with #1 finisher T-Series pushing its YouTube-leading total to more than one billion weekly views.
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It’s not the first time that T-Series has reached that benchmark, and another member of the ten-digit club — MrBeast — is right behind the Indian record label in second place. Meanwhile, individual creators continue to find chart real estate next to dozens of kid-friendly hubs.
Ben Eagle kicks it into high gear
YouTube’s favorite martial arts instructor is back. After breaking out on Shorts toward the end of 2023, the Vietnamese brawler had his biggest year on YouTube in 2024. Based on his early returns from 2025, the upcoming 12 months will be an even bigger coming-out party for Ben Eagle and his cast of characters. His most recent seven-day sum topped out at 340.2 million weekly views.
Eagle gained worldwide attention for his dojo by staging expertly choreographed fight scenes on YouTube Shorts. His work has only gotten more elaborate of late. It’s as if every Ben Eagle video is a sequel that’s bigger and badder than the upload that came before it.
There’s good reason for creators like Eagle to up the ante. YouTube Shorts viewers have shown a tremendous appetite for action-packed mini-films. Another individual with a sharp eye for YouTube trends, Japan’s Issei, has invoked fight-happy characters like Demon Slayer‘s Inosuke as he climbs the Global Top 50 leaderboard.
Issei’s eighth place finish in this week’s Global Top 50 shows that Asia’s YouTube Shorts all-stars are still going strong in the new year. Even Korea’s CRAZY GREAPA (#34) is back in the ranking with a fresh crop of sigma memes. Though Gen Alpha memes move quickly, some elements of the cohort’s taste have staying power.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 15
- United States: 10
- Indonesia: 4
- Hong Kong and South Korea: 3
- Japan and Vietnam: 2
- Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechia, El Salvador, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand: 1
This week, 37 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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