Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 5/9/14

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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 up in that #1 spot.

Top Gainers

Katy Perry's fans are still celebrating her ' Birthday' and kept the singer's YouTube channel in the #1 spot in the U.S for its 12th week in a row with more than 44.1 million views. In the #2 position is Shakira. Fans of the singer and judge on NBC's The Voice continued to watch her ' Dare' music video in very high numbers, giving her channel a view count to the tune of almost 41.9 million views on the week.

Channel Distribution

Following the international pop star in third place is DisneyCollectorBR. The online video collection of children's toys racked up over 39.7 million views on the week. Up next in the #4 spot Eminem. The rapper imported from Detroit witnessed a 47% week-over-week uptick in views to top out at more than 30 million views during the week. And rounding out the Top 5 is The Ellen Show. The YouTube home of Ellen DeGeneres' eponymous daytime talk show witnessed a 56% increase in views and received more than 25.8 million of them on the week.

Thehonor of Top Gainer this week goes to Magic of Rahat. The YouTube home of the online video prankster known to friends and family as Rahat Hossain witnessed an incredible 1,320% week-over-week increase in views thanks to a particularly charitable video in which Rahat surprises a formerly homeless man named Eric with a new house of his own. The video quickly gained an eight-figure view count and pushed Magic of Rahat's channel up to the #18 spot in the U.S. with nearly 17.4 million views on the week.

All in all, the top 50 most viewed U.S. YouTube channels this week amassed a total of 881,111,030 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, Machinima, Maker Studios: 3 channels each in the Top 50, with Fullscreen's TheFineBros. at #17, Machinima's SkyDoesMinecraft at #21, and Maker's markiplierGAME at #24. DEFY Media, Movieclips, NBCU: 2 channels each the Top 50, with Defy's Smosh at #16, Movieclips' MovieclipsTrailers at #11, and NBCU's The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon at #6.

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