List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

A subscriber to a channel on the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a user who has chosen to receive the channel's content by clicking on that channel's "Subscribe" button, and each user's subscription feed consists of videos published by channels to which the user is subscribed.^[1] The ability for users to subscribe was introduced in October 2005.^[2] YouTube began publishing a list of its most-subscribed channels in April 2006.^[3] An early archive of the list dates to May 17, 2006.^[4]

American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, with 372 million subscribers as of March 2025.^[update]

Since May 2006, when Smosh occupied the top position with just 2,986 subscribers,^[4] at least 11 other YouTube channels have held the top spot; these include the channel for the American fictional web series lonelygirl15,^[5] American comedian Brooke "Brookers" Brodack,^[6] American fictional character Fred Figglehorn,^[7] Swedish gamer Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg,^[8] American comedian Ryan Higa,^[9] American media personality Ray William Johnson,^[10] American public speaker Judson Laipply,^[11] English pensioner Peter Oakley,^[12] and the official channels for Indian music record label T-Series, as well as YouTube^[A] itself.^[13]

The most-subscribed YouTube channel is MrBeast, having 372 million subscribers as of March 10, 2025, and gaining subscribers by an average of about 350,000 per day.^[14][15][16]

50 most-subscribed channels

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The following table lists the 50 most-subscribed YouTube channels,^[B][17] as well as the primary language, country, and content category of each channel. The channels are ordered by number of subscribers. Those whose displayed subscriber counts are identical, are listed so that the channel whose current growth rate indicates that its displayed subscriber count will exceed that of the other channel is listed first. Automatically generated channels that lack their own videos, such as Music and News, and channels that have been made effectively obsolete as a result of the transferral of their content, such as JustinBieberVEVO and TaylorSwiftVEVO^[C] are excluded.

As of January 2025^[update], 20 of the 50 channels listed primarily produce content in English while 16 primarily produce content in Hindi. All 50 channels have surpassed 59 million subscribers.^[18] Twelve of the channels have surpassed 100 million subscribers and only two have more than 200 million subscribers: MrBeast and T-Series. MrBeast is the only channel that has more than 300 million subscribers.^[19]

Name	Link	Brand channel	Subscribers (millions)	Primary language	Category	Country
MrBeast	Link	No	372	English	Entertainment[20]	United States
T-Series	Link	Yes	288	Hindi[21][22]	Music	India
Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes	Link	Yes	190	English	Education	United States
SET India	Link	Yes	182	Hindi[23]	Entertainment	India
Vlad and Niki	Link	No	135	English	Entertainment	United States  Russia
Kids Diana Show	Link	Yes	131	English[24]	Entertainment	United States  Ukraine
Like Nastya	Link	No	126	English	Entertainment	United States  Russia
Stokes Twins	Link	No	116	English	Entertainment	United States
Zee Music Company	Link	Yes	115	Hindi[25][26]	Music	India
PewDiePie	Link	No	110	English	Entertainment	Sweden  Japan
WWE	Link	Yes	107	English	Sports	United States
Goldmines	Link	Yes	103	Hindi	Film	India
Sony SAB	Link	Yes	99.7	Hindi	Entertainment	India
Blackpink	Link	No	96.1	Korean	Music	South Korea
ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs	Link	Yes	95.3	Hindi[27]	Education	India
김프로KIMPRO	Link	No	91.6	Korean	Entertainment	South Korea
Zee TV	Link	Yes	88.3	Hindi	Entertainment	India
Alan's Universe	Link	No	84.8	English	Entertainment	United States
5-Minute Crafts	Link	Yes	81.1	English	How-to	Cyprus[a]
Pinkfong	Link	Yes	80.7	English	Education	South Korea
BANGTANTV	Link	No	79.9	Korean	Music	South Korea
Colors TV	Link	Yes	79.2	Hindi	Entertainment	India
Hybe Labels	Link	Yes	76.7	Korean	Music	South Korea
A4	Link	No	76.2	Russian	Entertainment	Belarus
Justin Bieber	Link	No	74.9	English	Music	Canada
ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING	Link	No	74.9	Arabic	Entertainment	United Arab Emirates
T-Series Bhakti Sagar	Link	Yes	74.5	Hindi	Music	India
UR · Cristiano	Link	No	74.1	Portuguese, English	Entertainment/Sports	Portugal
Tips Official	Link	Yes	73.3	Hindi	Entertainment	India
Toys and Colors	Link	No	72.8	English	Entertainment	United States
Shemaroo Filmi Gaane	Link	Yes	71.2	Hindi	Music	India
Aaj Tak	Link	Yes	70.4	Hindi	News	India
Infobells - Hindi	Link	Yes	68.7	Hindi	Education	India
KL BRO Biju Rithvik	Link	No	68.7	Malayalam	Lifestyle Vlogs	India
El Reino Infantil	Link	Yes	68.1	Spanish	Music	Argentina
Canal KondZilla	Link	Yes	67.6	Portuguese	Music	Brazil
HAR PAL GEO	Link	Yes	65.6	Urdu	Entertainment	Pakistan
Mark Rober	Link	No	65.1	English	Education/Entertainment	United States
Fede Vigevani	Link	No	65	Spanish	Entertainment	Mexico
Wave Music	Link	Yes	64.8	Bhojpuri	Music	India
Eminem Music	Link	No	64.3	English	Music	United States
YRF	Link	Yes	64.3	Hindi	Music	India
Sony Music India	Link	Yes	64.2	Hindi	Music	India
Movieclips	Link	Yes	63.6	English	Film	United States
Alejo Igoa	Link	No	61.7	Spanish	Entertainment	Argentina
ARY Digital HD	Link	Yes	61.6	Urdu	Entertainment	Pakistan
Dude Perfect	Link	No	60.8	English	Comedy	United States
Taylor Swift	Link	No	60.7	English	Music	United States
YOLO AVENTURAS	Link	No	60.3	Spanish	Entertainment	Mexico
LooLoo Kids	Link	Yes	59.9	English	Music	Romania[29]
As of March 2025 (UTC)

1. TheSoul Publishing is currently based in Cyprus; it was originally based in Russia and is still Russian-owned.^[28]

Historical progression of most-subscribed channels

The following table lists the 20 distinct runs as the most-subscribed YouTube channel recorded since May 2006. Only runs lasting at least 24 hours are included. Twelve different channels have held the position, with PewDiePie holding the title a record four times. He also holds the records for the longest time as the most-subscribed channel (1,920 days in his third run), the shortest time as the most-subscribed channel (four days in his second run), and the longest overall combined time as the most subscribed channel (2,017 days). In second place is Smosh, which held it three times, while third place is tied between nigahiga, T-Series, and YouTube's own channel, which have all held it twice each. YouTube's own official channel, then known as "YouTube Spotlight", briefly held the title in late 2013; one factor that contributed to the channel's rise to the top spot was the site's autosuggestion for new users to subscribe to the channel upon registration.^[30] Geriatric1927 had the shortest overall time as the most-subscribed YouTube Channel only holding the achievement for 28 days.

Overall of the twelve channels who have held the record, seven featured individual males, one (Brookers) featured an individual female, two (T-Series, YouTube Spotlight) were brand channels, one (Smosh) was a duo of males which later became a collective and production company, and one (lonelygirl15) was a webseries. Nine of the channels were based in the United States, one (geriatric1927) was based in England, one (T-Series) was based in India, and one (PewDiePie) was based in Sweden.

  Former record for days held

  Current record for days held

Channel name	Date achieved	Days held	Reference
Smosh (1)	c. May 9, 2006	~34	[4][31]
Judson Laipply	c. June 12, 2006	~21	[32][33][34]
Brookers	c. July 3, 2006	~43	[35][36][37]
geriatric1927	August 15, 2006	28	[38][39][40]
lonelygirl15	September 12, 2006	226	[41][42][43][44]
Smosh (2)	April 26, 2007	517	[45][46]
nigahiga (1)	September 24, 2008[47]	12	[48][49][failed verification]
FЯED	October 6, 2008[50]	318	[49][failed verification][51]
nigahiga (2)	August 20, 2009	675	[48][52][53]
Ray William Johnson	June 26, 2011	564	[54][55][56]
Smosh (3)	January 12, 2013	215	[45][57][58]
PewDiePie (1)	August 15, 2013	79	[59][60]
YouTube Spotlight[A] (1)	November 2, 2013	36	[30][61][62]
PewDiePie (2)	December 8, 2013	4	[63][64]
YouTube Spotlight (2)	December 12, 2013	11	[65][64]
PewDiePie (3)	December 23, 2013	1,920	[66][67][68]
T-Series (1)	March 27, 2019[D]	5	[72][74]
PewDiePie (4)	April 1, 2019	13	[73][75][76]
T-Series (2)	April 14, 2019	1,876	[77][78]
MrBeast	June 2, 2024	281	[79]
As of October 2024 UTC

Timeline

Timeline of the most-subscribed YouTube channels (May 2006 – present)

Milestones and reactions

Channel	Subscriber milestone	Date achieved	Reference
Brookers	10,000	July 7, 2006	[80]
geriatric1927	20,000	August 18, 2006	[81]
lonelygirl15	50,000	October 13, 2006	[82]
Smosh	100,000	May 15, 2007	[83]
FЯED	1 million	April 7, 2009	[84]
nigahiga	2 million	March 13, 2010	[85]
RayWilliamJohnson	5 million	November 15, 2011	[86]
Smosh	10 million	May 25, 2013	[87]
PewDiePie	20 million	January 9, 2014	[88]
	50 million	December 8, 2016	[89]
T-Series	100 million	May 29, 2019	[90]
	200 million	November 30, 2021	[91]
MrBeast	300 million	July 10, 2024	[92][93]

Following the third time that Smosh became the most-subscribed YouTube channel, Ray William Johnson collaborated with the duo.^[94] A flurry of top YouTubers including Ryan Higa, Shane Dawson, Felix Kjellberg, Michael Buckley, Kassem Gharaibeh, the Fine Brothers, and Johnson himself, congratulated the duo shortly after they surpassed Johnson as the most-subscribed channel.^[95]

PewDiePie vs T-Series

Main article: PewDiePie vs T-Series

In mid-2018, the subscriber count of the Indian music video channel T-Series rapidly approached that of Swedish web comedian and Let's Player PewDiePie, who was the most-subscribed user on YouTube at the time.^[96][97] As a result, fans of PewDiePie and T-Series, other YouTubers, and celebrities showed their support for both channels. During the competition, both channels gained a large number of subscribers at a rapid rate, and surpassed each other's subscriber count on multiple occasions in February, March, and April 2019.^{[69][70][71][73]} T-Series eventually permanently surpassed PewDiePie, and on May 29, 2019, it became the first channel to reach 100 million subscribers.^[90]

In 2024, when MrBeast surpassed T-Series, he tweeted that his fans had "avenged" PewDiePie.^[79] In the lead-up to MrBeast's channel becoming the most-subscribed, T-Series issued a call for subscribers.^[98] Meanwhile, MrBeast urged his fans to not see the competition between his channel and T-Series as "this country versus that country", while also warning against anyone becoming hateful.^[99]

See also

• List of most-viewed YouTube channels
• List of most-viewed YouTube videos
• List of most-liked YouTube videos
• List of most-disliked YouTube videos
• List of YouTubers
• List of most-viewed Indian YouTube videos

Notes

1. Although now simply called "YouTube", YouTube's official channel was named "YouTube Spotlight" in 2013.
2. The total number of channels listed may exceed 50 if a tie exists for the 50th-highest subscriber count.
3. These are not to be mistaken for the channels Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, both of which are included.
4. T-Series surpassed PewDiePie in subscriber count on numerous occasions, each lasting fewer than 24 hours, from February to late March 2019.^[69][70][71] The first incident to last at least 24 hours began on March 27 and ended on April 1.^[72][73]