Top 15 Most Popular American Youtube Channels

Let’s tune into the top 15 most popular American Youtube channels. Ever since its inception Youtube has been constantly rising in popularity all over the world and US has definitely been one of the forerunners. And, with the analytics game intensifying, every marketer is trying to look for the channels where the traffic is flocking to, and the American channels occupy most of the top spots.

While channels are battling it out for the views, the tables are being turned every other day. So that leaves us wondering – which are after all the highest performing channels on the tube today and how can their popularity be assessed? The two most important parameters, therefore, can be said to be the number of subscribers and the number of views on the channels. But if we consider them independently, neither of them can accurately give us an exact measure of popularity. Simply having a great number of subscribers can be a misleading measure because it doesn’t exactly show us the number of active users, and idle users are of little value. Similarly a channel can experience a sudden spike in views for a certain uploaded video which can blow up its overall views.

Popularity of a channel should ideally signify the ability of the channel to consistently maintain the number of active users and consistent views. To make its list of the Top 15 Most Popular American Youtube Channels, InsiderMonkey has taken into account the top performing American channels by both the subscribers and views and has made its ranking by applying weights accordingly. We have obtained our data from reliable stats sites which are constantly tracking the trends on Youtube.

Also see our list of 15 Most Popular Youtube Songs of All Time to know about the most viewed songs on the video-sharing website.

Let’s proceed to unearth what’s hot on the tube right now with our current list!

15. Maroon5VEVO,

Subscribers – 8,589,752

Views – 3,851,598,907

The American band’s VEVO channel has an overall rank of 15 in our list. The channel that contains music videos of the band seems to emulate the band’s growing popularity around the world, with the channel experiencing approximately 8000 new subscribers on a daily basis.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels Maroon5VEVO

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14. Bruno Mars,

Subscribers – 9,432,202

Views – 3,369,729,889

The singer/songwriter’s VEVO channel ranks quiet highly on the popularity quotient even though by subscriber numbers it ranks only at the 19th among American Channels.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels Bruno Mars

13. NickiMinajAtVEVO,

Subscribers – 9,426,686

Views – 3,420,864,469

The hip hop singer has no dearth of a loyal following though not as much in solidarity as Taylor Swift’s fan army. Minaj’s music channel has over 2,491,600 views every day.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels NickiMinajAtVEVO

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12. BeyonceVEVO,

Subscribers – 8,181,515

Rank by Views – 4,377,193,367

Queen B still proves that she’s here to stay with an astounding number of subscribers on her VEVO channel. The channel has an average of 4000 new subscribers every day.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels BeyonceVEVO

11. David Guetta,

Subscribers – 9,366,794

Views – 3,888,575,612

The official channel for David Guetta videos has over 122 uploads and an impressive number of views. Considering its performance on both parameters it ranks 11th among the Top 15 Most Popular American Youtube Channels.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels David Guetta

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10. Fine Brothers Entertainment,

Subscribers – 13,185,715

Views – 3,371,385,561

The Fine Brothers entertainment channel is quite popular for its comedy series. The channel has had an immense following from the get go owing to their consistent uploads. Their segments like Youtubers React and Spoilers are major crowd pullers.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels Fine Brothers Entertainment

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9. College Humor,

Subscribers – 9,894,353

Views – 3,846,123,121

The other comedy channel that is rising on the popularity quotient is College Humor. Their animations, web-series and music videos have Youtubers rolling on their digital floors, definitely asking for more.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels College Humor

8. TheEllenShow,

Subscribers – 12,537,140

Views – 4,860,533,134

TV’s original funny-woman is an ace on the internet too. The channel that consists of snippets, moments and episodes from the show gets more than 4,193,710 average views per day and has over 6000 uploads.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels TheEllenShow

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7. Machinima,

Subscribers – 12,635,578

Views – 5,500,218,120

The Machinima entertainment channel ranks 10th among all channels world over when views are considered. The channel is targeted towards gamers and makes videos centered around gaming news, podcasts and parodies.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels Machinima

6. JustinBeiberVEVO,

Subscribers – 13,039,289

Views – 6,089,930,773

You can love him or hate him but you can’t deny Justin Beiber’s popularity. His VEVO channel also quite indicates towards that. The channel ranks at No.7th of the overall world view ranking.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels JustinBeiberVEVO

5. Smosh,

Subscribers – 21,164,863

Views – 4,786,822,800

The undeniably high number of subscribers makes Smosh one of the most popular channels out there. With their quirky brand of humor they are sure out there to grab eyeballs.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels Smosh

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4. EminemVEVO,

Subscribers – 16,313,317

Views – 5,384,603,788

The veteran rap star has an amazing following and the Youtube channel is proof to it. Even though the channel has only 58 uploads so far, the views seem to be overflowing. The channel ranks 11th by world views and 14th by subscriber numbers world over.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels EminemVEVO

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3. TaylorSwiftVEVO,

Subscribers – 16,180,938

Views – 6,371,729,992

As we move into the Top 3, we enter the battle of the Pop Queens. T Swift’s ever loyal fan base strike again to push her channel on the 3rd position of our list. The channel is extremely high performing all over the world.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels TaylorSwiftVEVO

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2. KatyPerryVEVO,

Subscribers – 16,820,348

Views – 6,137,680,829

It seems like the numbers keep rolling up on Katy Perry’s VEVO channel. The honey eyed singer lands up in the 2nd position on the popularity list, with 89 uploads so far and 6th greatest video views across the world.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels KatyPerryVEVO

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1.RihannaVEVO,

Subscribers – 17,467,018

Views – 7,157,915,014

As far as popularity is concerned, Rihanna’s channel rules the charts. It ranks pretty highly on both parameters of subscriptions and views. The channel has been active since 2009 with over 92 uploads and 6000 new subscribers on an average per day.

Most Popular American Youtube Channels RihannaVEVO

So these were the Top 15 Most Popular American Youtube Channels. Which one are you subscribing to?