Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 1/17/14

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It's another installment of the weekly Tubefilter Chart of the Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels and the internet's most popular unboxing channel is tough to beat.

For the second week in a row with no new music video releases from major artists, a perennial chart-topper claimed the #1 spot in the U.S. The most popular unboxing channel on the internet and the most-favored channel of adolescents on the hunt for age-appropriate toys, DisneyCollectorBR maintained its top spot, staying constant with almost 38.9 million views on the week.

Katy Perry finished the week again in the #2 position. Fans of the 29-year-old pop star's music watched her videos an aggregate total of nearly 34.8 million times in the last seven days, up 6% from the week prior.

Top Gainers

Eminem is up next in the #3 spot thanks to a slight 7% week-over-week increase in views. The Rap God ended the week with nearly 33.6 million views and bumped Miley Cyrus down to fourth place. The pop star experienced a not-so-insignificant 15% decrease in views, to level out at nearly 27.98 million.

And rounding out the Top 5 is Rihanna, whose channel came in just barely behind Miley's at 27.97 million views on the week.

As we mentioned in the Worldwide version of this week's Top 50, the honor of Top Gainer this week goes to Game Of Thrones. The season 4 trailer of the hit HBO series bumped up the channel an incredible 6,519% in views, to top out at nearly 14.2 million views and the #14 spot in the U.S.

Channel Distribution

But it wasn't a bad week for Animation on Fox, too.

The YouTube home for clips from Family Guy, The Simpsons, and other animated staples of the broadcast TV network witnessed a sizable week-over-week increase in views of 712%. The channel ended up with more than 12.4 million views on the week and in the #30 spot in the U.S. thanks to The Simpsons tribute to master animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. If you haven't seen it already, you should definitely give it a watch:

All in all, the top 50 most viewed U.S. YouTube channels this week amassed a total of 807,222,631 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: 17 channels in the U.S. Top 50, with Katy Perry topping out at #2. Maker Studios: 4 channels in the Top 50, with CaptainSparklez at #35 . WMG: 3 channels in the Top 50, with Atlantic Videos at #27 . BroadbandTV, Machinima, Zefr: 2 channels each in the Top 50, with BroadbandTV's speedyw03 at #19, Machinima's SkyDoesMinecraft at #11, and Zefr's Movieclips Trailers at #10.

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