Fastest to Fame

A Crown That Barely Moves, Then Suddenly Does

Forty-five days of tracking this board, and the top ten has shifted by an average of 1.7 places. Apps stay put. Ratings keep piling up at the same steady clip they always have. Week after week, nothing much budges.

So the one moment the top spot actually changed hands matters more than the raw count implies. It happened exactly 1 time in the stretch we've tracked, back in July 2026, when 抖音 by Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. took the crown from Facebook. 抖音 wasn't even in the top ten before that. It leapt straight to #1 and has camped there for 38 of the last 45 days. Facebook hasn't fallen far either, it's parked at #2, and the whole handover still reads as clean.

5.2 Million a Year, and the Air Gets Thin Fast

抖音 pulls in an average of 5.2M ratings a year since it launched, a figure so large it makes the #2 spot look almost modest by comparison. Facebook trails at 3.7M, which leaves a gap of 1.5M a year between first and second place, the steepest single-step drop anywhere on this board.

After that, the decline keeps going, just more gradually. YouTube holds 3.5M, ChatGPT sits at 3M, and 剪映 - 抖音官方AI创作神器 also lands at 3M, which is a surprisingly strong number for a name that's far less known globally than the apps sitting next to it. By the time you reach the bottom of the top 100, the pace has slowed to 391K a year, and the list as a whole averages eight times the median value you'd find sitting in the middle of the pack. Newer apps generally grow the fastest, and 抖音, the newest arrival at the top, fits that pattern exactly.

One Developer, Five Games, and a Bible

Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Ltd shows up 6 times in the top 100, more than any other developer on this entire board. Just within the top 25, you'll spot 三角洲行动 at #8, 和平精英 at #10, 金铲铲之战 at #13, 王者荣耀 at #18, and 洛克王国：世界 at #19. No other developer piles up entries like that. Five hits from a single company looks less like luck and more like one studio quietly dominating mobile gaming ratings growth.

Then there's Bible, from Life.Church, sitting at #9 with 1.8M ratings a year, tucked right between 三角洲行动 and 和平精英. It's the odd one out in this stretch, the only entry that isn't a social platform, a game, or an AI tool. Watching a scripture app keep pace with Tencent's shooters and DoorDash's delivery empire is exactly the kind of detail no spreadsheet can explain on its own. Ratings just don't sort themselves by category. People rate whatever they actually use, and the numbers stack up regardless of what the app happens to be.