YouTube releases top trending lists as a stand-in for Rewind

Earlier this week, YouTube Music sent out a Music Recap of 2022. This individualized recap shared your top tracks, artists and summary of your musical journey for the year. This is

very similar to Spotify Wrapped. Now, YouTube is also releasing the top trending lists to make up for the Rewind feature that’s no longer available. The lists released by YouTube

include Top Trending Videos of 2022, US Top Songs, US Top Creators, Breakout Creators, and Global Top Ads.  First, let’s look at YouTube’s US Top Trending list. This list

considers in-country videos uploaded in 2021. This list excludes Shorts, music videos, trailers and children’s videos. There can also be only one video per creator to ensure

fairness. The list of Top US Trending Videos from YouTube is: Technoblade: so long, nerdsGuardian News: Watch the uncensored moment Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the

Oscars, drops F-bombDream: hi, I’m Dream. NFL: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar & 50 Cent FULL Pepsi SB LVI Halftime ShowMrBeast: I Built Willy

Wonka’s Chocolate Factory!Mark Rober: Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb PaybackJaiden Animations: Being Not StraightKane Pixels: The Backrooms (Found Footage)The Try Guys:

what happened. First We Feast: Millie Bobby Brown Needs a Milkshake Next, let’s take a look at the list of US Top Creators. These results were based on the number of in-country

subscribers gained in 2022. This list excludes artists, brands, media companies and children’s content. It also features only one channel per creator. Here is the list of the Top

US Creators from YouTube: MrBeast (114M subs)NichLmao (18.7 subs)Airrack (10.7M subs)Ryan Trahan (11.1M subs)Isaiah Photo (8M subs)Brent Rivera (22.3M subs)Dan Rhodes (18.8M

subs)Luke Davidson (9.31M subs)CoryxKenshin (15M subs)Ian Boggs (8.07M subs) The Breakout Creators list considers in-country subscribers gained in 2022 for channels showing at

least a 200% year-on-year growth. This means creators need to have tripled their subscribers within a single year to be considered. The Top US Breakout Creators, according to

YouTube, are: NichLmao (18.7 subs)Airrack (10.7M subs)Jooj Natu ENG (6.03M subs)Shangerdanger (4.03M subs)David The Baker (2.47M subs)Kat (5.2M subs)Dayta (4.39M subs)Devin Caherly

Shorts (3.61M subs)MDMotivator (4.17M subs)Charles Brockman III (TheOnly CB3) (2.41M subs) The US Top Songs list contains songs that debuted or saw significant year-on-year growth

in 2022. Candidates for this list included official music videos, lyric videos and user-generated content that uses the full song. Only two songs per artist or album can be