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The back half of this week’s U.S. Top 50 is filled entirely with short-form channels. You read that right — the chart includes 25 Shorts hubs in a row.
For those who prefer long-form content, there are some familiar faces among the top five finishers, all of whom increased their YouTube viewership week-over-week.
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Chart Toppers
MaviGadget has earned a #1 finish in the U.S. Top 50 for the second week in a row. The tool-focused YouTube Shorts channel has become a major factor in our charts; it now has more than 25 billion lifetime views. That’s a number that compares favorably to other Shorts channels in the top five. When you combine the lifetime viewership of the fourth and fifth-place finishers, the result is still 16% lower than MaviGadget’s sum. This week’s chart leader earned its position by counting 566.2 million weekly views.
The #2 channel in the U.S. Top 50 has nearly twice as many lifetime views as MaviGadget, but it couldn’t quite catch the leader in this week’s ranking. I’m talking about MrBeast, the North Carolina-based creator who has finished second in the U.S. Top 50 for two consecutive weeks. The man whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson saw his traffic go up by 45% week-over-week on his primary YouTube channel, but that uptick wasn’t big enough to negate MaviGadget’s advantage. Nevertheless, MrBeast’s 553.8 million weekly views represent an impressive seven-day tally.
Toys and Colors ensured that this week’s U.S Top 50 will have an unchanged top three. The family-friendly channel retained its placement from the previous week thanks to the 413.7 million weekly views it collected. That was good for a week-over-week increase of 17%, but Toys and Colors couldn’t catch the two channels that experienced even bigger gains. It does lead the U.S. top five in terms of lifetime views. It has 64 billion of them, about 15 billion more than MrBeast. (Jimmy Donaldson’s main channel is ahead of Toys and Colors by about 204 million s. bscribers).
The fourth-place finisher in the U.S. Top 50 possesses a lot of the same characteristics as the hubs ranked above him. Like those channels, Zack D. Films is still in the same position as the previous week even though he increased his YouTube traffic by 29% week-over-week. The YouTube Shorts standout now reaches more than 11 million subscribers, and his growing fan base has helped him collect more than 12.5 billion lifetime views. 376.7 million of those views came during the third week of May.
Another channel with a big week-over-week increase rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. Oscar’s Funny World experienced a 37% week-over-week uptick that brought the channel up to 332.3 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Last week, platforms like Twitch celebrated the 15th anniversary of the initial launch of Minecraft. The block-busting sandbox game has become a timeless favorite since it was first introduced by Mojang in 2009, but its community has hardly been stagnant. The typical piece of 2024 Minecraft content would be utterly inscrutable to the game’s original audience.
Take Intalord, for example. Among several Minecraft-loving channels in this week’s U.S. Top 50 (LankyBox and Realistic Craft are two others), Intalord earned one of the highest placements in the chart. With storytelling videos that utilize Minecraft‘s creative tools, this upstart channel ranked 34th in the U.S. Top 50 with 128.2 million weekly views. One week after landing in 57th place, Intalord moved up 23 spots thanks to a week-over-week traffic increase of 33%.
The long-form, narrative-focused Minecraft videos on the Intalord channel wouldn’t look too strange to early Minecraft stars like CaptainSparklez or DanTDM. The Shorts are a whole different story. Like so many channels in the U.S. Top 50, Intalord has achieved nine-digit weekly viewership by peddling all of the Gen Alpha memes that can fit on one channel. Here’s a small taste of what those videos look like:
It’s amazing to think that many of the viewers who are enjoying these videos weren’t even alive when Minecraft first hit the market. It is a game that has already achieved cross-generational appeal, and its audience only seems to be getting bigger. Will it still be en vogue 15 years from now? We can’t tell for sure at this point, but if Minecraft maintains its place in Gen Alpha culture, it won’t be fading from the spotlight anytime soon.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 42 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
