Discover the most watched YouTube videos in Iraq right now.
Top 49 videos·🇮🇶 Iraq
Iraq is experiencing rapid growth in its YouTube scene, driven by a young population eager for digital entertainment. Arabic music, TV series, and humor content dominate the trends. The Iraqi market shares many trends with Egypt and the Gulf, while developing its own digital identity.
"دمعة الهجر نار | محمد باقر الخاقاني " by محمد باقر الخاقاني / Mohamad Baqer Alkhaqani leads the trending charts in Iraq with 20K views. 17 videos are trending in multiple countries. 49 different channels in the top 50.
How fast this chart renews itself
Over the last 7 days, the ranking in Iraq replaced an average of 63% of its entries every day, moving between 12% and 90% depending on the day. That is a chart that turns over faster than it settles, where roughly half the entries survive a second day. This figure comes from comparing our own daily snapshots: YouTube publishes the ranking of the moment, never how much of it survived since yesterday.
The chart carries about 49 entries a day, filled by 49 distinct channels, so almost every slot belongs to a different publisher. Concentration only appears when one channel places several videos at once, which is exactly what the ranking above lets you check.
The most resistant video of the week held on for 6 consecutive days: رندة احمد - يا دنيا دوري | Randa Ahmed - Ya Danya. Survival time is a far better measure of a video's strength than the position it opened at, because it is the only one a launch budget cannot buy.
The sharpest climb belonged to Nos Convertimos en FAMILIA DE VERITY en Minecraft!, up 14 places in a single day. A jump of that size in twenty-four hours almost always signals an audience arriving from outside YouTube rather than gradual discovery.
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Reading a country ranking
This ranking lists the most popular videos in the selected country, in the official order published by YouTube and refreshed daily. Switch countries in the top bar and you will often see an entirely different list, even between neighboring countries sharing the same language.
Every country has its own logic
The gaps we observe between markets are considerable and remarkably stable over time. Japan lives in a near-closed ecosystem, where local productions occupy almost the entire top. India is dominated by film music, carried by channels with view volumes unmatched anywhere else. Brazil crowns its national creators well ahead of international productions. Spanish-speaking countries largely share their trends across borders thanks to the common language. Comparing two countries side by side is often more instructive than looking at an aggregated global top, which flattens precisely those singularities.
Filtering by category
A country's general ranking is almost always dominated by music and entertainment, that is structural. If you are after something else, the category filters give a far more useful reading: gaming surfaces local creators and regional competitive scenes, news reveals the subjects genuinely mobilizing a country at a given moment, and sport follows the competition calendar. These sub-rankings change face much faster than the general top, and that is often where trends can be spotted before they become massive.