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To qualify for this week’s Global Top 50 subscriber ranking, channels needed to add at least 380,000 new fans over a seven-day period. The channels that reached that benchmark came from 20 different countries and included a mix of long-form and short-form standouts.
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MrBeast, who added two million new subscribers between April 28 and May 4, is still lurking near the top of the chart. This time, however, he could only manage a second-place finish. A different channel hauled in a whopping 4.8 million new subs over the same period, pushing its lifetime total above 21 million.
Will synthwave be the soundtrack for the AI revolution?
Whether we like it or not, AI-generated video is becoming a more common sight among the most-watched and most-subscribed content on YouTube. As we head full steam ahead toward the dead internet of the future, some channels are playing familiar sounds: the thumping basslines and ethereal melodies of the synthwave genre.
One prominent purveyor of synthwave beats landed in the #1 spot in this week’s Global Top 50 subscriber chart. Masters of Prophecy is a favored source for Indian dance music, and it pairs those tunes with AI-generated imagery. The soft blues and purples that are associated with synthwave can sometimes feel out of this world, but for a generative AI model, those spacey hues are just another background.
Masters of Prophecy has grown its subscriber count by embracing YouTube Shorts, and it has expanded its library in that format by getting an assist from AI. Twinkly tunes draw South Asian consumers to the channel’s minute-long uploads, and the semi-realistic images that are paired with those songs keep people watching.
Maybe you would prefer for the AI-generated future to be a bit less vibey. If that’s how you feel, fret not — the subscriber charts include channels that employ AI in many different ways. Masters of Prophecy’s creations pair well with its musical stylings, but another Indian channel, MonkuMiya, prefers to concoct truly bizarre genAI videos.
Have you ever wanted to see what Spiderman would look like if he dressed in military fatigues and spoke Hindi? MonkuMiya has you covered, and the video fitting that description has more than four million views in all.
MonkuMiya’s use of AI may be more “random” than what we find via Masters of Prophecy, but even strange videos like that can draw in millions of subscribers. MonkuMiya added 391,000 new subs during our most recent seven-day measurement period, and its viewership has shot up as a result.
Data via Gospel Stats
For the AI skeptics among us, that upward trajectory is a point of concern. I understand where those people are coming from; in one sense, it was more fun to imagine fantastical images before it was easy to render them. At this point, however, little can be done. The AI-generated cat is out of the bag. Just throw on your favorite synthwave tunes and enjoy the ride as best you can.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 19
- United States: 7
- Japan: 3
- Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, and Spain: 2
- Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Latvia, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and Vietnam: 1
This week, 40 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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