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YouTube’s top trending U.S. videos, creators of 2022

The YouTube logo as shown in the YouTube booth at the Licensing Expo 2016 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on June 22, 2016 (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images) (Gabe Ginsberg, 2016 Gabe Ginsberg, Getty Images)

YouTube released its annual list of the American “videos, creators, and music that made an impact in 2022.” It offers tantalizing insight into the content that the country’s consuming on the platform.

Collectively, the country’s top 10 trending YouTube videos amassed 650 million views. They include a Super Bowl halftime show, a slap heard around the world, Mark Rober’s hilarious attempt to foil scam callers and more.

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Scroll below for top trending U.S, YouTube videos, as well as the top shorts, creators and songs.

Top trending videos

  1. Technoblade - so long nerds
  2. Jaiden Animations - Being Not Straight
  3. The Try Guys - what happened.

Top shorts

Top creators

Breakout creators

Top songs

  1. Kodak Black - Super Gremlin
  2. Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure
  3. Bad Bunny - Tití me preguntó
  4. Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone - Me Porto Bonito
  5. Karol G, Becky G - Mamiii
  6. Imagine Dragons x JID - Enemy
  7. Karol G - PROVENZA

A local look back at 2022


About the Author
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Briana Zamora-Nipper joined the KPRC 2 digital team in 2019. When she’s not hard at work in the KPRC 2 newsroom, you can find Bri drinking away her hard earned wages at JuiceLand, running around Hermann Park, listening to crime podcasts or ransacking the magazine stand at Barnes & Noble.

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