Most Countries at Number One

Seven Handoffs and One Stubborn Streak

The crown on this board has changed hands seven times. The top ten shuffles by an average of 3.5 places per window, which makes it feel less like a ranking and more like a stampede. Against that backdrop, ChatGPT holding #1 for 69 of the last 70 tracked days while everything below it keeps churning stands out.

The handoff happened in July 2026, when the crown passed from Shadowrocket to ChatGPT. ChatGPT hadn't cracked the top ten before that point. It arrived and landed at #1 without climbing through the ranks first. Shadowrocket, the app it replaced, still holds #2 with a value of 6. One app skipped the queue and showed up at the top.

The Distance From #1 to Everyone Else

ChatGPT's 19 country-chart number-ones triple Shadowrocket's 6, and the gap widens further against the median across the full top 45, a clear sign of how top-heavy this board is. By #8, YouTube, you're down to a single country chart at rank one, and every app from #8 to #45 ties at that same value of 1.

That tail runs long and flat. Vinted, Telegram Messenger, and e-Título all sit at one win apiece, but the company they keep tells the real story. e-Título, a Brazilian electoral authority's voting-ID app, holds a number-one spot the same way Claude by Anthropic does. One win counts as one win, whether you're a chatbot or a government voting document. Country charts flatten everything that way; they don't care how you got there.

TikTok Ltd. Shows Up Three Times

TikTok Ltd. stands alone as the only developer with more than one entry doing real work on this board. TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE and TikTok ティックトック each carry a value of 3, and PineDrama - Short Dramas, also under TikTok Ltd., holds 1. Three apps, three separate country-chart footprints, one company collecting number-ones under different names for different audiences.

No other maker repeats in the top 45 shown here. TikTok Ltd.'s spread is the closest thing to a pattern on a board that otherwise reads like a list of unrelated winners: a bank app, an electoral ID app, a driving-theory-test kit. Everyone else picked up their one country by accident of geography or timing. TikTok Ltd. built three separate products and each one found its own number-one somewhere.

What Sitting at Number One Actually Looks Like

Across 799 reviews of ChatGPT, sentiment sits at 0.78 and has held steady there, neither climbing nor slipping. Reviewers keep coming back to helpfulness, ease of use, and AI capabilities, while limitations and update issues surface often enough to count as a real pattern rather than noise.

So the app holding more country-chart number-ones than the next six competitors combined isn't universally loved. People just keep using it. That gap between dominance and affection is the real finding here: nineteen countries agree ChatGPT belongs at the top, yet the reviews don't agree it's perfect. Both things hold at once, and neither looks likely to change soon.