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This week, the leading channels in our U.S. Top 50 widened the gap between themselves and the competition. Only six U.S.-based channels received at least 300 million weekly views.
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The #1 channel in the chart didn’t just reach that benchmark. It nearly doubled it.
Chart Toppers
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes may soon give up its 10-week streak at the front of our Global Top 50, but a c-c-c-combo breaker in the U.S. Top 50 seems much farther away. As the calendar turned over to April, Cocomelon continued to upload about three new videos per week, and that volume was high enough for it to continue dominating our U.S. ranking. The California-based channel earned yet another #1 finish after collecting 594.1 million weekly views.
For two straight weeks, Alan Chikin Chow has served as the closest runner-up to Cocomelon. The YouTube Shorts standout, who reaches nearly 22 million subscribers with his comedy videos, collected 405.5 million weekly views in our latest count. That made Chow the only individual creator with more than 400 million weekly views, though another individual who fits that category is hot on his heels.
MrBeast finished in third place in the U.S. Top 50 after picking up 374.8 million weekly views. That total was good for a 76% week-over-week increase for the man born Jimmy Donaldson. Spoiler alert: A #3 finish is not the end of MrBeast’s run in this week’s U.S. Top 50.
JOON took the #4 spot in the up-to-date version of the U.S. Top 50. The Shorts channel has grown quickly thanks to YouTube’s vertical video format. Less than two years after the JOON hub launched, it’s now getting 356.1 million weekly views.
Omar Raja – ESPN rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. Raja, who founded the basketball brand House of Highlights, has become a short-form star since moving to ESPN. He picked up 326.1 million views during the week that was, and #5 may not end up as his peak position. The NBA playoffs are about to start, so Raja might add millions more views in the near future.
Top Gainers
OK, let’s talk a little more about MrBeast. Jimmy Donaldson reached #3 in the U.S. Top 50 on his main channel, but he was actually represented twice within this week’s ranking. The channel he dubbed MrBeast 2 has now joined its sister hub amid our all-American countdown.
MrBeast 2 is a lot smaller than the main MrBeast channel, since it reaches about 21 million subscribers instead of 143 million. But even in front of a smaller audience, Donaldson displays his trademark commitment to experimentation. The list of most-watched clips on MrBeast 2 is a grab bag: Depending on the day, you might watch a failed stunt attempt or a situational comedy sketch.
This video’s broad strokes and twisty plot make it look like some of the popular comedy videos that come out of countries like India and Taiwan. After boosting his main channel by incorporating Shorts into it, Donaldson is now seeking further growth by taking cues from the most-watched videos on YouTube’s short-form platform.
The results speak for themselves. MrBeast 2 moved up to 38th place in the U.S. Top 50 after adding 122.5 million weekly views during our latest measurement period. Donaldson is the sort of guy who always wants to be the best, so don’t expect him to rest until he’s reached #1 and #2 in our U.S. chart.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 38 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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