Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 4/25/14

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It's another installment of the weekly Tubefilter Chart of the Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels and Katy Perry is still on top.

Top Gainers

Katy Perry's recent release of the lyric video to her latest single ' Birthday' helped to net her channel over 59 million views on the week and keep it up in the #1 spot in the U.S. for its ninth week in a row. Next in the #2 position is once again DisneyCollectorBR. The online video collection of children's toys racked up over 46 million views on the week.

Channel Distribution

In the #3 spot is WWE Fan Nation. The YouTube destination for all things World Wrestling Entertainment maintained its position within the ring of the Top 5 with more than 32.4 million views on the week. Shakira comes in next at fourth place. The Voice judge's recent release of ' Empire' is still getting plays and helped her channel end the week with more than 29.9 million views. And rounding out the U.S. Top 5 is TheFineBros, with more than 29.8 million views in the last seven days.

The honor of Top Gainer in the U.S. this week goes to X-Men Movies. The YouTube repository for all of the official trailers (in a variety of languages) for the upcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past flick witnessed an extraordinary week-over-week increase in views of 605%. That uptick was due to the release of Official Trailer #3, which helped push the channel up to the #34 spot in the U.S. and more than 14.4 million views on the week.

All in all, the top 50 most viewed U.S. YouTube channels this week amassed a total of 972,240,781 views. Here's the distribution of those channels by multi-channel network:

Download a high-res version of this week's Tubefilter Chart here. OpenSlate is a video content analytics platform that tracks more than 135,000 YouTube video channels and measures their ability to attract, engage and influence an audience. By providing one consistent measure of quality - the SlateScore™ - OpenSlate helps marketers, producers and agencies hone their online video marketing strategy. VEVO: 16 channels in the U.S. Top 50, with Katy Perry topping out at #1. Fullscreen, Maker Studios: 3 channels each the Top 50, with Fullscreen's TheFineBros. at #5 and Maker's markiplierGAME at #24. DEFY Media, Machinima, Zefr: 2 channels in the Top 50, with Defy's Smosh at #19, Machinima's SkyDoesMinecraft at #17, and Zefr's MovieclipsTrailers at #7.

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