Top5s YouTube Stats

@top5s · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Top5s channel overview

Top5s (@top5s) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2014. It has 3.4M subscribers and 911M total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 680K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 142K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 118K views. Over the last 12 months, Top5s published 54 videos (15% Shorts), and 3 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Top5s gained 0 subscribers and 1.6M views, about 81K views a day.

How much does Top5s make?

Returbe estimates Top5s's YouTube ad revenue at $6.4K – $19K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.97 to $8.92, typically $4.95, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Top5s publishes about 10.9 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (33% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Top5s's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Top5s's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The Most Terrifying Serial Killer I've Ever Researched...596K views · Aug 15, 20265× typical views
• I've Researched 9/11 For 15 Years. These Things Still Don't Add Up...524K views · Sep 21, 20264.4× typical views
• When Interviewers Asked Serial Killers The Wrong Question...388K views · Sep 16, 20263.3× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Paranormal Case I’ve Ever Researched314K views · Aug 17, 20262.7× typical views
• I’ve Watched 1,000+ Disturbing Videos. These I Can’t Unsee…263K views · Aug 29, 20262.2× typical views
• The Man Who Tried Climbing Down on 9/11…221K views · Sep 19, 20261.9× typical views
• I’ve Researched 1,000+ Mysteries. These I Can’t Explain…217K views · Sep 5, 20261.8× typical views
• Candyman's Unknown Victim: A 40-Year-Old Mystery Solved? #shorts12K views · Apr 28, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Top5s's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Most Disturbing Stories I've Ever Researched… (DON'T WATCH ALONE)119K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• 3 Disturbing Halloween Horror Stories...50K views · Oct 28, 20260.4× typical views
• I've Watched Thousands of Paranormal Videos. These Still Haunt Me...120K views · Oct 26, 20261× typical views
• Viewers Sent Me Their Most Disturbing Ghost Stories...59K views · Oct 24, 20260.5× typical views
• I Revisited One of the Most Disturbing Videos on the Internet...57K views · Oct 21, 20260.5× typical views
• Skinwalker Ranch: What's Happening in 2026 Is Seriously Strange...102K views · Oct 19, 20260.9× typical views
• I've Watched Thousands of Poltergiest Videos. These Still Creep Me Out...189K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views
• I Can't Stop Thinking About What These People Saw...82K views · Oct 14, 20260.7× typical views
• I Went Down a Portal Rabbit Hole... I Wish I Hadn't74K views · Oct 12, 20260.6× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Encounters With Mimics...93K views · Oct 10, 20260.8× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Top5s or YouTube.