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

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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 (like Mark Rober, Kai Cenat, Michelle Khare, Logan Paul, and 46 more) 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, with over 70 million views. That contributed to the channel’s 53% week-over-week increase in views to top out at 715.5 million of them.

148.58 million views behind in second place is J House jr. The family friendly channel home to Jeremy and Kendra and their five children (Isaac, Else, Caleb, Laura, and Janae) has had an incredible run over the last several months. In January 2024, the family posted 15 Shorts, 0 Longs, and got 32 million views. Fast forward to June and the family posted 189 Shorts, 0 Longs and got 2.1 billion views. That prolific output – there were 66 Shorts posted this week alone! – helped J Hosue Jr. to a 29% week-over-week increase in views and nearly 567 million views on the week.

In the #3 spot is Zack D. Films. As we’ve written before, the 31-year-old American YouTuber embarks into territory well-traveled by other highly-ranked Shorts creators. His interest in magic aligns him with Chart Toppers like Justin Flom, and his deconstruction of Vladimir Putin’s walk puts him in the company of channels like Simple Putin. He strikes a balance between major short-form trends, internet ephemera, and general esoterica, but recently has hit his stride with interesting edutaining animations. Shorts like Growing an ear in your arm score tens of millions of views. They also helped Zack D. Films to more than 522.1 million views in the week.

Up next in fourth place is Alan Chikin Chow. As we’ve noted, Chow’s made quick-hitting vertical videos his bread and butter, but he’s no slouch when it comes to long-form content, too. His latest installment of Alan’s Universe has scored 6.4 million views in 9 days. The one from three weeks ago has 15 million views. This one from three months ago has 41 million. But Chow posts about 2 Longs a month and almost a Short a day, so it’s the 60-second-or-less videos that contribute to the majority of his 419.5 million weekly views.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Toys and Colors. The perennial chart-topper and brightly-colored, family-friendly musical hub was down 14% week-over-week to bottom out at 418.1 million views.

Top Gainers

Alan Chikin Chow isn’t the only predominantly short-form YouTuber that puts out consistent long-form content that attracts a large audience. The Stokes Twins do it, too. And their Longs get a LOT of views.

Alan and Alex Stokes are the identical twin brothers behind the channel. Born on November 23, 1996, in Hollywood, Florida, they rose to fame through engaging young audiences with acrobatic, prank, and vlog-style content on Vine before doing the same on YouTube and TikTok. They’ve gotten in trouble for it, too, pleading guilty in 2020 to what The Verge describes as “misdemeanor false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies in connection with a pair of now-removed videos they filmed in the fall of 2019 in which they pretended to have just robbed a bank.”

Recently, their content has been more of the typical top-YouTuber challenge variety. I Built 4 SECRET Rooms In ONE COLOR! was released one month ago and has 88+ million views. I Built 7 SECRET Rooms You’d Never Find! was released two months ago and has 70+ million views. I Built 5 SECRET Rooms You’d Never Find! was released three months ago and has 90+ million views. There’s other content, too, but you can maybe intuit the theme.

All those secret rooms, at least two Long uploads a month, and seven or more Shorts a month (those are netting an average of 79+ million views, too) have kept he Stokes Twins channel up towards the top of the U.S. chart for a while. This week marked their second straight appearance in the #7 spot with more than 304.8 million views.

Channel Distribution

This week, there are 37 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.

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