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This week, the leading channels in the U.S. Top 50 are all seeing green. All of the channels in the top five saw their viewership go up over the previous seven days.
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The top five didn’t shift their positions very much, as there were four holdovers from the previous quintet.
The Top 5
Toys and Colors is still going strong in the U.S. Top 50. The family-friendly channel completed a dominant month in September, as it finished #1 in all of the U.S. rankings we published during that period. Toys and Colors’ latest seven-day sum was its biggest total of September, as it brought in 736.7 million weekly views. That was 8% more traffic than a number that was already far ahead of the (U.S.-based) competition. Will anyone be able to catch Toys and Colors in October? We’ll find out over the next four weeks.
🥈 J House jr. is officially the also-ran of September 2024. During that month, Toys and Colors finished first in each week’s U.S. Top 50, and J House jr. was always right behind it. The family-friendly Shorts hub earned its fourth consecutive #2 finish after collecting 607.5 million weekly views. That was 7% higher than the previous total earned by one of the fastest-rising channels on Shorts. Despite being off our radar a year ago, J House jr. now has more than 11 billion lifetime views on its primary YouTube channel.
🥉 MrBeast is in third place in the U.S. Top 50. The most popular individual creator on YouTube often climbs to the top of the charts, and that scenario becomes more likely during weeks when Jimmy Donaldson publishes one of his signature long-form competition videos. The latest of those videos featured 100 pairs of identical twins engaged in a battle royale. That’s a typically silly and spectacular conceit for MrBeast, and it helped him pick up 502.4 million weekly views as September drew to a close.
🌟 Dylan Anderson is another individual creator making his mark in the U.S. Top 50. With commentary videos that offer his take on the hottest YouTube Shorts content, Anderson has become a regular near the top of our charts. During our most recent seven-day measurement period, Anderson hauled in 500.6 million weekly views. That was enough traffic to earn him a fourth-place finish in the U.S. Top 50. It’s the second consecutive week he has wound up in the top five, and he’s in good position to continue that streak next week.
✨ Zack D. Films rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. The commentary creator collected 468.7 million weekly views, with most of that traffic coming via YouTube Shorts.
Top Gainers
In 2023, some of the biggest Minecraft content creators said goodbye to the Dream SMP, the server that had defined Minecraft culture during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the Dream SMP’s eponymous creator on the sidelines, there was an opportunity for a new gamer to become Minecraft‘s top hitmaker on YouTube. And a black-and-magenta character called Daquavis might be rising up to fill that void.
Daquavis is by no means a new name in YouTube’s Minecraft community. His channel has been active since 2020 and has attracted more than eight million subscribers as well as 3.7 billion lifetime views.
Though Daquavis has been making bank on YouTube for years, his profile has been rising over the past few months. He just made his first appearance in the U.S. Top 50 by rising to 47th place in our all-American ranking. He earned that distinction by collecting 111 million weekly views, which was 29% more traffic than what he earned the previous week (when his viewership was 68th-highest among U.S.-based channels).
Want more evidence that Daquavis is Dream’s heir apparent? The Minecraft legend actually shows up in Daquavis’ most-watched YouTube Shorts upload, which features a frenetic race through predictably blocky terrain.
I’m no Minecraft expert, so take my bluster about Daquavis’ significance in the community with a (cubical) grain of salt. But I do know this: Minecraft has been hot on YouTube for more than 15 years now, and that longevity never ceases to amaze me.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 38 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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