List of most-viewed YouTube channels

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Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel.

The list of most-viewed YouTube channels is topped by T-Series, an Indian record label known for Hindi film music.[1][2][3][4][5] T-Series became the most-viewed YouTube channel on February 16, 2017, and has more than 230 billion total views as of October 2023. The top 50 most-viewed channels have all surpassed 29 billion total views. 48 of these have surpassed 30 billion total views, and 23 have surpassed 40 billion total views, and 4 have surpassed 100 billion total views.[1][6]

Top channels (views)

Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 239.77 Music  India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 172.12 Education  United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 154.72 Entertainment  India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 107.52 Entertainment  India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 97.76 Entertainment  Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 95.58 Entertainment  Russia Russian and English
7. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 83.63 Entertainment  India Hindi
8. Vlad and Niki — 82.23 Entertainment  United States English
9. WWE WWE 80.28 Entertainment  United States English
10. Colors TV Viacom18 66.34 Entertainment  India Hindi
11. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 62.30 Music  India Hindi
12. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 60.72 Music  Argentina Spanish
13. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 60.39 Film  United States English
14. netd müzik netd.com 58.45 Music  Turkey Turkish
15. Ryan's World PocketWatch 56.29 Entertainment  United States English
16. Toys and Colors — 55.11 Entertainment  United States English
17. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 51.43 Entertainment  Philippines Filipino
18. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 48.47 Education  India Hindi and English
19. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 47.69 Education  Canada English
20. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 46.10 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
21. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 45.12 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
22. Wave Music — 41.53 Music  India Bhojpuri
23. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 40.68 Education  United States English
24. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 39.71 Education  United Kingdom English
25. LankyBox — 38.23 Games  United States English
26. MrBeast — 38.20 Entertainment  United States English
27. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 38.14 Education  Russia Russian
28. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 38.09 Music  India Hindi[9]
29. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 37.66 Music  Brazil Portuguese
30. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 37.03 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
31. Tips Official Tips Industries 35.70 Entertainment  India Hindi
32. D Billions — 35.16 Entertainment  Kyrgyzstan English
33. Tsuriki Show — 34.47 Comedy  Germany English
34. Blackpink YG Entertainment 34.25 Music  South Korea Korean
35. Vijay Television Star Vijay 34.21 Entertainment  India Tamil
36. StarPlus Disney Star 34.07 Entertainment  India Hindi
37. LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs — 33.43 Music  Romania English
38. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 33.18 Education  India Hindi
39. LeoNata Family — 33.13 People  United States English
40. Bad Bunny — 32.95 Music  Puerto Rico Spanish
41. Alan Chikin Chow — 32.85 Comedy  United States English
42. Taylor Swift — 32.36 Music  United States English
43. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 31.82 Music  India Hindi
44. Get Movies LetsonCorp 31.70 Film  Russia Russian
45. Justin Bieber — 31.35 Music  Canada English
46. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 31.35 Music  South Korea Korean
47. Ed Sheeran — 31.16 Music  United Kingdom English
48. Sony PAL Sony Music 30.56 Entertainment  India Hindi
49. Ch3Thailand — 30.34 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
50. Sony Music India Sony Music 30.18 Music  India Hindi
As of December 5, 2023

Historical progression

The first YouTube channel to exceed 10 billion total views was PewDiePie in September 2015. Since then, 400 channels have exceeded 10 billion total views as of July 2023.

T-Series became the most-viewed YouTube channel of 2016,[10][11][12] and exceeded 14 billion total views by January 2017.[13] It eventually surpassed PewDiePie to become the most-viewed YouTube channel of all time by February 16, 2017,[14] and currently maintains the lead with over 229 billion total views. T-Series has also had the most monthly views since 2016,[15][16] and received more than 2.8 billion views per month as of May 2019.[17]

The following table lists the channels that became YouTube's most-viewed channel at different points in time.

  Current record for most days as most-viewed channel
  Former record for most days as most-viewed channel
Channel name Network / owner Date achieved Days held Views Reference Country
T-Series T-Series February 16, 2017 2502 14.8 billion [14]  India
PewDiePie Felix Kjellberg December 29, 2014 780 7.7 billion [18][19][20]  Sweden
EMI Music EMI Music Publishing June 15, 2014 197 6.2 billion [21]  United Kingdom
RihannaVEVO Rihanna March 22, 2014 85 4.4 billion [22]  Barbados
Machinima Machinima, Inc. July 29, 2013 236 2.0 billion [23][24]  United States
VEVO Vevo March 23, 2013 128 1.7 billion [25]  United States
Universal Music Group Universal Music Group October 1, 2011 539 532 million [26]  United States

Timeline of most-viewed YouTube channels (October 2011 – October 2023)

See also

References

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