Discover the most watched YouTube videos in Japan right now.
Top 50 videos·🇯🇵 Japan
Japan has a unique YouTube ecosystem dominated by virtual talents (VTubers), anime, J-Pop music, and entertainment formats deeply rooted in Japanese culture. Japanese trends remain largely impervious to Western influences, reflecting a market deeply loyal to its own cultural codes.
"EBiDAN(恵比寿学園男子部) 「好きだから走れ！！！！！！！」Lyric Video" by EBiDAN leads the trending charts in Japan with 502K views. 3 videos are trending in multiple countries. 50 different channels in the top 50.
How fast this chart renews itself
Over the last 7 days, the ranking in Japan replaced an average of 80% of its entries every day, moving between 74% and 86% depending on the day. That is a chart that is almost entirely rewritten from one day to the next, where a video has a single day to be seen. 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 3 consecutive days: Nintendo Direct 2026.9.9. 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 日向坂46『風にキンモクセイ』MUSIC VIDEO, up 11 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.