How it works
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Pick a period
Yesterday, the last 7 or 28 days, 3 or 6 months, a year or all time. Videos are ranked among the uploads of that period.
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Narrow it down
Shorts or long videos, the channel's country, and whether to count music, made-for-kids videos and movie trailers.
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Read the ranking
Videos by views, or channels by the views their uploads of the period gathered, with their best video.
How the Top 100 is made
Returbe follows hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from the main markets and refreshes their view counts every day. The Top 100 ranks the videos uploaded in the period you pick by their current views, so a 7-day ranking shows the biggest hits of the week, not old videos still getting views.
The channels ranking adds up the views of each channel's uploads of the period. It favours channels that publish often and hit often, and shows the video that brought them the most views.
Why leave out music, kids and trailers
Left in, the top of YouTube is mostly music videos, nursery rhymes and studio trailers: huge numbers, but nothing a creator can learn from. Untick them to see the videos made by creators, the formats and topics that pull views right now.
- Music: music videos, lyric videos and music channels (music production and commentary channels stay in).
- Made for kids: videos YouTube marks as made for kids.
- Movies & trailers: the Movies and Trailers categories, and titles with "trailer" or "teaser".
Most viewed is not the same as best idea
A big channel gets millions of views on an ordinary video. The Top 100 shows what reaches the most people; to find ideas you can copy, look at outliers instead: videos that got many times more views than their own channel usually gets. Returbe lists them by niche and format, small channels included.
Frequently asked questions
What are the most viewed YouTube videos this week?
Pick "Last 7 days" above: the ranking lists the 100 videos uploaded in the last 7 days with the most views, refreshed every 15 minutes from the videos Returbe tracks.
Can I see the most viewed YouTube videos in my country?
Yes. Choose a country to keep only the channels registered there on YouTube. Channels that don't state a country only appear under All countries.
Does the Top 100 include YouTube Shorts?
Yes. Choose All, Long videos or Shorts. Shorts get far more views than long videos, so ranking them apart gives a fairer picture of each format.
How are channels ranked?
By the total views of the videos they uploaded in the period, not by their lifetime views or subscribers. Each channel shows its number of uploads and its most viewed one.
Is it every video on YouTube?
It covers the videos Returbe tracks: hundreds of thousands of channels from the main YouTube markets, with new channels added every day. A very new or very small channel can be missing.
Is the Top 100 free?
Yes, without an account or a limit. A free Returbe account adds the outlier videos of your niche, competitor tracking and alerts.
More free YouTube tools
YouTube Outlier Checker
Paste a video link and see in seconds whether it is an outlier: how many times more views it got than this channel usually gets, its views per hour and how it ranks against the channel's latest uploads.
YouTube Monetization Checker
Paste a channel or a video link to see whether it meets the YouTube Partner Program requirements, its estimated RPM and how much it likely earns from ads each month.
YouTube Keyword Tool
Type a topic or a keyword and see whether it is worth a video: how many views videos on it get, how crowded it is, who leads it and the related keywords, from the last 12 months of real YouTube videos.
Keep reading
- How to find trending topics on YouTube
- What YouTube Shorts get the most views
- How to find YouTube outlier videos
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