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Toys and Colors. J House jr. Zach D. Films. LearnToon. If you follow our U.S. Top 50 charts each week, then these names have become familiar as regular entrants within the top five. Over the past two months, they’ve consolidated their positions, creating a sort of stasis in our American charts. This week, Toys and Colors is still on top of the heap with 706.4 million weekly views.

The initial rise of YouTube Shorts brought a period of change to the U.S. Top 50, but that format has now settled down and its biggest players have been revealed. To...

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like; a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

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Five of the top ten channels in this week’s Global Top 50 got to their current stature by appealing to young children. Whether through YouTube Shorts or hour-long uploads, those channels have found the secret to social video success.

Meanwhile, all across the chart, channels are taking their own paths to the top. Here are some details:

The Top 5

Anaya Kandhal is beginning September the same way she ended August: With a rush of viewership on YouTube. The indisputable #1 chart topper throughout the spring and summer of 2024 is looking to continue her hot streak into the next season. Young...

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

Jimmy Donaldson‘s MrBeast channel is back on top by 150 million views. Why? Because the YouTube G.O.A.T. posted a banger of a video. Let’s get into it.

Chart Toppers

The #1 finisher in this week’s U.S. Top 50 is the aforementioned MrBeast. In the last several weeks he’s become the Most-Subscribed YouTuber in the world, crossed 300 million subscribers, racked up 28 million of those subscribers in one month alone (averaging 9.137 subscribers a second!), and enticed 50 of the top creators in the world to descend on Greenville, North Carolina for an epic video. 50 YouTubers Fight For $1,000,000 is the most-viewed MrBeast video ever in its first 24 hours,...

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

In this week’s U.S. Top 50, there is a break of more than 100 million views between the sixth and seventh channels in the ranking.

That top group includes all of the channels that have led the U.S. Top 50 during the 2024 calendar year. It’s an elite group, so let’s go ahead and break down those top performers.

Chart Toppers

The #1 finisher in this week’s U.S. Top 50 is someone who has been a constant presence in these charts ever since the beginning of the YouTube Shorts era. Alan Chikin Chow has made quick-hitting vertical videos his bread and butter, and that strategy has paid off handsomely.

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

Shorts continue to dominate the U.S. Top 50 this week. 42 channels in the list upload a majority of their videos in YouTube’s less-than-60-seconds vertical video format. Let’s get to it.

Chart Toppers

MaviGadget climbed back up to the #1 spot in the U.S. this week. The Chicago-based online storefront that’s a spiritual successor to Hammacher Schlemmer and home for all oddball things tech jumped up 8% in its weekly views, hitting nearly 523.5 million.

In second place is J House jr. Despite a 18% week-over-week decrease in views, the family-friendly Shorts channel definitely plays in the content category defined by elementary-school-aged hijinx, but some videos also...

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

Anyone who studies this week’s U.S. Top 50 will notice that there are a few different ways to make a run to the top of the charts.

Some channels ascend our rankings by working within tried-and-true categories like gaming and family content. Others advance by glomming onto the hottest trends on YouTube Shorts.

Chart Toppers

And then there’s MrBeast, who has taken a unique path to chart-topping glory. There are only a handful of individual creators in the U.S. Top 50, and Jimmy Donaldson has outranked them all by blending multiple formats on his primary YouTube channel. Even though he didn’t put out a...