What were the most watched YouTube videos in 2022

YouTube has dropped the “Rewind” clips it used to make, which were complex productions featuring some of the platform’s biggest content creators. Instead of Rewind, YouTube now offers a list of the year’s most popular clips and most successful content creators, but currently only for the US

YouTube’s 10 most-watched videos in 2022 come from multiple categories. The most popular, however, is Technoblade’s “so long nerds,” the last video by a gaming content creator, published after he passed away. In second place was the clip in which Will Smith punched Chris Rock during the Academy Awards, while the third-place clip is “hi, I’m Dream”, in which one of gaming’s biggest YouTubers finally shows his face after many years in “hiding”.

Top 10 most popular YouTube videos in 2022.

1. Technoblade – so long nerds
2. Guardian News – Watch the uncensored moment Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, drops F-bomb
3. Dream – hi, I’m Dream.
4. NFL – Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar & 50 Cent FULL Pepsi SB LVI Halftime Show
5. MrBeast – I Built Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory!
6. Mark Rober – Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
7. Jaiden Animations – Being Not Straight
8. Kane Pixels – The Backrooms (Found Footage)
9. The Try Guys – what happened.
10. First We Feast – Millie Bobby Brown Needs a Milkshake

For the year 2022, YouTube has also produced a ranking of the most popular Shorts videos.

Top 10 Shorts on YouTube in 2022

1. Shangerdanger – Diver Cracks Egg at 45 ft Deep #Shorts
2. Hingaflips – Sarah Trust Challenges
3. Brodie That Dood – Come with me to shave my fluffy dog! #doggrooming #grooming #goldendoodle
4. Chris Ivan – Dave and Busters Bet Me 1000 Tickets I Couldn’t Do THIS…
5. Jay & Sharon – That GAP Between Your Car Seat and Center Console
6. Adrian Bliss – Welcome to the stomach #shorts
7. Zack D. Films – This Magic Trick EXPLAINED 😱 (America’s Got Talent)
8. ILYA BORZOV – Social experiment | What would you do?
9. PaulVuTV – Wife surprises husband at his office with pregnancy reveal! 😭❤️ #Shorts
10. NichLmao – If you catch it… YOU KEEP IT w/ MY GF (Funny) #shorts

The top content creators is the top of the top content creators with the most views over the year, and for the second year in a row, MrBeast is the one who holds the top spot.

Top 10 YouTube content creators in 2022

1. MrBeast
2. NichLmao
3. Airrack
4. Ryan Trahan
5. Isaiah Photo
6. Brent Rivera
7. Dan Rhodes
8. Luke Davidson
9. CoryxKenshin
10. Ian Boggs

There’s also a top list of the most popular new content creators that only surfaced this year.

Top 10 new creators in 2022

1. NichLmao
2. Airrack
3. Jooj Natu ENG
4. Shangerdanger
5. David The Baker
6. Kat
7. dayta
8. Devin Caherly Shorts
9. MDMotivator
10. Charles Brockman III (TheOnly CB3)

Of course, YouTube is also a music platform, and the platform also reveals which were the 10 most popular songs of the year.

Top 10 songs on YouTube in 2022

1. Encanto Cast – We Don’t Talk About Bruno
2. Kodak Black – Super Gremlin
3. Jessica Darrow – Surface Pressure
4. Bad Bunny – Tweety Asked Me
5. Future – WAIT FOR U ft. Drake, Tems
6. Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone – Me Porto Bonito
7. Karol G, Becky G – Mamiii
8. Imagine Dragons x JID – Enemy
9. Karol G – PROVENZA
10. Lil Baby – Right On (Official Video)

source: YouTube Blog