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Chart Toppers
Ryan ToysReview held onto its first-place position on the U.S. chart for an incredible 33rd week. Ryan’s self-named YouTube home where he shows off his unboxing abilities and uploads his playtime footage dipped 22% in views on the week, but still took home nearly 154 million. In a dangerously close second place is WWE. World Wrestling Entertainment’s YouTube outpost shed 40% of its weekly view count to bottom out at more than 151.5 million views.
Up next in the #3 spot is ToyScouter. With uploads that have fully embraced YouTube’s oddball adults-dressing-up-in-Disney-and-superhero-costume phenomena, this YouTube channel ostensibly for kids hopped up 33% in views to end the week with nearly 129.4 million of them. In fourth place is Chainsmokers. The DJ duo’s music videos got played to the tune of almost 114 million views throughout the week.
And rounding out the Top 5 is Katy Perry. The 32-year-old international pop star’s YouTube channel stayed relatively unchanged at more than 97.3 million views.
Top Gainers
The honor of one of our Top Gainers this week goes to BuzzFeed Blue.
The blue-hued destination in BuzzFeed’s color-coded YouTube strategy that focuses on videos related to sports, video games, unsolved mysteries and more had a great week on the world’s largest video sharing site thanks to an epic game of high-stakes hide-and-seek.
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures staffer Mike Carrier wanted to see if his skills of being undiscovered were as good as he thought, so he went and hired a bounty hunter to track him down. The ensuing upload “I Tried To Escape A Bounty Hunter” documents the six-hour endeavour and was very popular online. The video amassed a view count in the several millions and helped push the BuzzFeed Blue channel up 136% in its week-over-week view count to nearly 33.1 million views on the week and the #44 spot on the U.S. chart.
Channel Distribution
The top 50 most viewed U.S. YouTube channels this week amassed a total of 2,905,818,556 views. Here’s the distribution of a few of those channels by multi-channel network:
VEVO: 14 channels in the U.S. Top 50, with Chainsmokers the top-ranked channel of the network at #4.
BuzzFeed: 3 channels in the Top 50, with BuzzFeed Video at #10.
BroadbandTV, Maker Studios, Movieclips, NBCU, Studio71: 2 channels each in the Top 50, with BBTV’s WorldstarHipHop at #7, Maker’s FGTeeV at #34, and Movieclips’ Movieclips at #9, NBCU’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at #28, and Studio71’s FamilyFunPack at #18.
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Tubefilter Top 50
The 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels
This Week • U.S.
April 6, 2017 - April 12, 2017
1
Ryan ToysReviewViews This Week: 153,979,000 -22%Subs This Week: 106,851 | Position Last Week: 1All-Time Views: 11,525,683,101 | All-Time Subs: 7,343,250 | SlateScore: 581
2
WWEViews This Week: 151,501,842 -40%Subs This Week: 188,760 | Position Last Week: 2All-Time Views: 14,288,598,390 | All-Time Subs: 15,628,806 | SlateScore: 765
3
ToyScouterViews This Week: 129,352,148 33%Subs This Week: 180,897 | Position Last Week: 6All-Time Views: 4,058,078,468 | All-Time Subs: 5,761,961 | SlateScore: 594
4
ChainsmokersVEVOViews This Week: 113,956,359 -5%Subs This Week: 289,578 | Position Last Week: 4All-Time Views: 3,889,984,116 | All-Time Subs: 8,661,766 | SlateScore: 609
5
KatyPerryVEVOViews This Week: 97,321,660 0%Subs This Week: 110,145 | Position Last Week: 5All-Time Views: 11,441,167,540 | All-Time Subs: 21,941,431 | SlateScore: 627
6
LuisFonsiVEVOViews This Week: 92,700,581 -22%Subs This Week: 238,065 | Position Last Week: 3All-Time Views: 1,812,698,615 | All-Time Subs: 3,866,483 | SlateScore: 501
7
WORLDSTARHIPHOPViews This Week: 80,954,028 95%Subs This Week: 88,270 | Position Last Week: 19All-Time Views: 3,323,560,175 | All-Time Subs: 5,081,998 | SlateScore: 663
8
Bruno MarsViews This Week: 80,763,714 -1%Subs This Week: 173,395 | Position Last Week: 7All-Time Views: 5,801,955,219 | All-Time Subs: 14,286,266 | SlateScore: 580
9
MovieclipsViews This Week: 80,865,967 6%Subs This Week: 66,941 | Position Last Week: 10All-Time Views: 6,199,975,199 | All-Time Subs: 4,857,640 | SlateScore: 581
10
BuzzFeedVideoViews This Week: 77,712,874 4%Subs This Week: 87,943 | Position Last Week: 11All-Time Views: 9,624,465,707 | All-Time Subs: 12,269,027 | SlateScore: 758
11
EnriqueIglesiasVEVOViews This Week: 71,964,851 8%Subs This Week: 111,120 | Position Last Week: 14All-Time Views: 7,907,354,267 | All-Time Subs: 10,383,176 | SlateScore: 533
12
shakiraVEVOViews This Week: 72,731,264 -16%Subs This Week: 152,417 | Position Last Week: 8All-Time Views: 8,979,844,643 | All-Time Subs: 13,259,820 | SlateScore: 608
13
Dude PerfectViews This Week: 65,994,435 80%Subs This Week: 684,289 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 2,856,815,184 | All-Time Subs: 17,683,558 | SlateScore: 708
14
Toy FreaksViews This Week: 68,390,639 -7%Subs This Week: 114,798 | Position Last Week: 17All-Time Views: 5,030,762,973 | All-Time Subs: 6,131,819 | SlateScore: 557
15
Freak Family VlogsViews This Week: 63,036,684 23%Subs This Week: 96,699 | Position Last Week: 34All-Time Views: 1,842,472,564 | All-Time Subs: 2,805,053 | SlateScore: 562
16
DisneyMusicVEVOViews This Week: 62,909,620 1%Subs This Week: 89,854 | Position Last Week: 16All-Time Views: 3,083,548,932 | All-Time Subs: 5,632,655 | SlateScore: 618
17
JustinBieberVEVOViews This Week: 61,604,585 -25%Subs This Week: 156,215 | Position Last Week: 12All-Time Views: 14,845,754,144 | All-Time Subs: 28,487,811 | SlateScore: 514
18
FamilyFunPackViews This Week: 60,922,764 -31%Subs This Week: 41,283 | Position Last Week: 9All-Time Views: 9,146,443,287 | All-Time Subs: 5,088,942 | SlateScore: 606
19
CookieSwirlCViews This Week: 56,826,446 78%Subs This Week: 34,615 | Position Last Week: 33All-Time Views: 5,045,073,993 | All-Time Subs: 4,352,588 | SlateScore: 606
20
Jake PaulViews This Week: 58,535,244 29%Subs This Week: 465,006 | Position Last Week: 36All-Time Views: 404,365,951 | All-Time Subs: 4,464,141 | SlateScore: 699
21
TaylorSwiftVEVOViews This Week: 55,142,651 -29%Subs This Week: 77,029 | Position Last Week: 13All-Time Views: 11,177,352,708 | All-Time Subs: 22,010,777 | SlateScore: 543
22
Wave MusicViews This Week: 53,538,335 -29%Subs This Week: 83,359 | Position Last Week: 15All-Time Views: 2,165,252,940 | All-Time Subs: 2,323,826 | SlateScore: 602
23
Trap NationViews This Week: 52,920,361 -20%Subs This Week: 149,912 | Position Last Week: 18All-Time Views: 4,391,375,278 | All-Time Subs: 13,329,892 | SlateScore: 667
24
Super Simple SongsViews This Week: 50,076,789 0%Subs This Week: 67,812 | Position Last Week: 28All-Time Views: 6,032,783,659 | All-Time Subs: 5,485,194 | SlateScore: 593
25
Maroon5VEVOViews This Week: 48,121,773 1%Subs This Week: 72,051 | Position Last Week: 30All-Time Views: 7,070,345,159 | All-Time Subs: 13,136,747 | SlateScore: 599
26
TheEllenShowViews This Week: 48,404,076 -5%Subs This Week: 66,090 | Position Last Week: 32All-Time Views: 8,525,636,762 | All-Time Subs: 19,494,328 | SlateScore: 736
27
FGTeeVViews This Week: 45,841,107 13%Subs This Week: 44,862 | Position Last Week: 37All-Time Views: 3,690,390,347 | All-Time Subs: 3,324,097 | SlateScore: 608
28
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonViews This Week: 41,927,696 26%Subs This Week: 46,896 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 6,869,895,222 | All-Time Subs: 13,477,289 | SlateScore: 722
29
CalvinHarrisVEVOViews This Week: 44,661,860 -23%Subs This Week: 57,535 | Position Last Week: 23All-Time Views: 6,947,158,508 | All-Time Subs: 10,875,976 | SlateScore: 455
30
PopularMMOsViews This Week: 42,880,286 -26%Subs This Week: 56,867 | Position Last Week: 29All-Time Views: 8,169,289,691 | All-Time Subs: 11,335,793 | SlateScore: 744
31
Fueled By RamenViews This Week: 43,661,725 -24%Subs This Week: 64,215 | Position Last Week: 22All-Time Views: 7,243,261,099 | All-Time Subs: 7,974,148 | SlateScore: 647
32
Toys and Funny Kids Surprise EggsViews This Week: 40,639,602 12%Subs This Week: 69,228 | Position Last Week: 43All-Time Views: 5,504,972,809 | All-Time Subs: 6,107,830 | SlateScore: 583
33
Inside EditionViews This Week: 40,152,998 -19%Subs This Week: 24,370 | Position Last Week: 26All-Time Views: 1,369,577,750 | All-Time Subs: 897,752 | SlateScore: 605
34
MarkiplierViews This Week: 40,725,498 -29%Subs This Week: 73,097 | Position Last Week: 24All-Time Views: 7,042,602,382 | All-Time Subs: 17,154,989 | SlateScore: 776
35
Saturday Night LiveViews This Week: 36,966,456 137%Subs This Week: 36,831 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 2,394,907,905 | All-Time Subs: 4,061,017 | SlateScore: 623
36
Guava JuiceViews This Week: 37,860,737 -34%Subs This Week: 77,965 | Position Last Week: 20All-Time Views: 1,946,691,416 | All-Time Subs: 5,788,640 | SlateScore: 693
37
ArianaGrandeVevoViews This Week: 37,646,512 -23%Subs This Week: 86,451 | Position Last Week: 35All-Time Views: 6,775,300,689 | All-Time Subs: 16,301,721 | SlateScore: 564
38
BuzzFeedYellowViews This Week: 37,432,159 -27%Subs This Week: 8,859 | Position Last Week: 31All-Time Views: 7,023,534,774 | All-Time Subs: 7,796,602 | SlateScore: 680
39
ShawnMendesVEVOViews This Week: 36,621,691 5%Subs This Week: 79,790 | Position Last Week: 47All-Time Views: 2,577,942,534 | All-Time Subs: 7,626,944 | SlateScore: 471
40
Ultra MusicViews This Week: 36,710,265 -4%Subs This Week: 58,718 | Position Last Week: 41All-Time Views: 6,064,050,394 | All-Time Subs: 8,281,351 | SlateScore: 690
41
Fresh Movie TrailersViews This Week: 35,897,540 5%Subs This Week: 32,765 | Position Last Week: 45All-Time Views: 2,888,427,480 | All-Time Subs: 2,596,757 | SlateScore: 612
42
Ricky MartinViews This Week: 35,706,348 -22%Subs This Week: 40,333 | Position Last Week: 38All-Time Views: 2,767,015,786 | All-Time Subs: 3,147,970 | SlateScore: 494
43
Wiz KhalifaViews This Week: 34,866,165 -2%Subs This Week: 75,451 | Position Last Week: 46All-Time Views: 5,868,526,556 | All-Time Subs: 10,824,707 | SlateScore: 556
44
BuzzFeedBlueViews This Week: 33,054,644 136%Subs This Week: 56,533 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 2,388,414,991 | All-Time Subs: 5,545,530 | SlateScore: 673
45
Charlie PuthViews This Week: 34,520,362 4%Subs This Week: 55,699 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 2,100,518,064 | All-Time Subs: 5,883,560 | SlateScore: 568
46
Movieclips TrailersViews This Week: 32,918,962 -28%Subs This Week: 30,157 | Position Last Week: 25All-Time Views: 8,068,867,027 | All-Time Subs: 10,918,641 | SlateScore: 710
47
FUNnel VisionViews This Week: 33,058,374 -20%Subs This Week: 32,962 | Position Last Week: 42All-Time Views: 3,043,813,619 | All-Time Subs: 2,859,480 | SlateScore: 614
48
EminemVEVOViews This Week: 33,130,574 -26%Subs This Week: 92,405 | Position Last Week: 40All-Time Views: 8,380,566,150 | All-Time Subs: 21,684,570 | SlateScore: 511
49
Linkin ParkViews This Week: 29,599,462 70%Subs This Week: 44,420 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 3,504,631,160 | All-Time Subs: 7,709,235 | SlateScore: 679
50
Talking TomViews This Week: 29,108,843 110%Subs This Week: 63,652 | Position Last Week: N/AAll-Time Views: 2,081,411,768 | All-Time Subs: 3,721,427 | SlateScore: 533