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There’s a clear gap between the top four channels in this week’s ranking and the next tier in the Global Top 50.
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Within that uppermost echelon, there are a pair of Indian channels that are far ahead of the pack. Both of those hubs have been regulars in the Global Top 50 since the start of the year.
The Top 5
🥇 Anaya Kandhal got the most weekly views among all YouTube channels. Unprecedented viewership is becoming the norm for this Indian family channel, which has raised the stakes with repeated #1 finishes during the summer of 2024. After getting 761.5 million weekly views, young Anaya and her family achieved a major milestone by surpassing 40 million subscribers on their primary YouTube hub. There are two morals to this story: There are a lot of kids on the Indian version of YouTube, and family content translates easily across cultural lines.
🥈 T-Series came the closest to matching Anaya Kandhal’s weekly traffic, but the Indian record label eventually settled for yet another runner-up finish. That has become the norm for this one-time Chart Topper, which has played second fiddle across multiple categories this year. Anaya Kandhal keeps pipping it in the worldwide charts, and MrBeast is now ahead of it in YouTube’s subscriber rankings. But T-Series can still count 730.1 million weekly views and the most lifetime views of any YouTube channel (263.8 billion).
🥉 KIMPRO is in third place in the latest Global Top 50. Last week’s #1 finisher followed up that chart-topping performance with a similar weekly sum. This week, however, 696.6 million weekly views wasn’t a big enough total to keep up with the Indian channels that went 1-2. KIMPRO did join Anaya Kandhal by surpassing a round-number subscriber milestone: There are now more than 50 million YouTube accounts subscribed to one of Korea’s most reliable sources for short-form memes and skits.
🌟 Toys and Colors took fourth place to stand as the highest-ranking U.S.-based channel in the Global Top 50. Like most of the other entrants in the global top ten, Toys and Colors is a kids’ channel that hauls in views by offering a mix of long-form edutainment and quick-hitting Shorts. That combination allowed it to cross the 600 million view mark, putting it 150 million views ahead of the fifth-place finisher. Toys and Colors’ final seven-day tally was 645 million weekly views, giving it a strong finish to the month of August.
✨ Alan Chikin Chow is fifth in the Global Top 50 for the second week in a row. The short-form comedy creator counted 495.9 million weekly views, making him the most-watched individual creator other than Anaya Kandhal.
Top Gainers
Move over, Thomas the Tank Engine. There’s another anthropomorphic vehicle dominating the children’s entertainment world in Southeast Asia. Tayo the Little Bus is a Korean production that has maintained steady popularity in its home country, but it has also become a phenomenon in another nation: Indonesia.
Tayo became so big in his home country that real buses were named after him. Once the show took off, it was translated into 11 different languages, including Indonesian. That’s how we ended up with the Tayo Bus Kecil YouTube channel, which just made its first appearance in the Global Top 50. Tayo’s Indonesian follow offers short-form snippets from the show, but like many family-friendly channels, its viewership is bolstered by a single video that has claimed more than one billion views all on its own.
But there’s more than Tayo’s Indonesian channel than meets the eye. The show’s theme song has become a popular meme in the world’s fourth-most populous nation, and Tayo was once one of Indonesia’s most-Googled topics. That viral nature helped the bus cruise to the tune of 228.2 million weekly views during the last full week of August. That total represented a 5% week-over-week bump that pushed Tayo from 57th place in the world up to 48th.
Other talking vehicles will need a lot more YouTube Shorts views to keep up with Tayo’s fast speed. For more information on the popular Korean show, check out its primary YouTube hub.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 14
- India: 13
- Hong Kong: 6
- Canada, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Vietnam: 2
- Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, El Salvador, France, Japan, Moldova, Russia, and South Korea: 1
This week, 32 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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