List of most-viewed YouTube channels

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Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel, with over 267 billion views.

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 over 272 billion total views as of November 2024.

50 most-viewed channels

The following table lists the 50 most-viewed YouTube channels as well as the primary language and content category of each channel. The channels are ordered by number of views. The top 50 most-viewed channels have all surpassed 33 billion total views.[1][6]

Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 267 Music  India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 190 Education  United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 170 Entertainment  India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 120 Entertainment  India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 106 Entertainment  Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 105 Entertainment  Russia Russian and English
7. Vlad and Niki — 95.6 Entertainment  United States English
8. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 94.4 Entertainment  India Hindi
9. WWE WWE 88.4 Entertainment  United States English
10. Colors TV Viacom18 74.7 Entertainment  India Hindi
11. Toys and Colors — 74.6 Entertainment  United States English
12. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 69.8 Music  India Hindi
13. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 63.3 Film  United States English
14. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 62.4 Music  Argentina Spanish
15. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 60.1 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
16. MrBeast — 59.8 Entertainment  United States English
17. netd müzik netd.com 58.7 Music  Turkey Turkish
18. Ryan's World PocketWatch 58.6 Entertainment  United States English
19. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 56 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
20. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 55.8 Entertainment  Philippines Filipino
21. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 52.5 Education  India Hindi and English
22. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 52.2 Education  Canada English
23. StarPlus Disney Star 50.9 Entertainment  India Hindi
24. 김프로KIMPRO — 49.8 People  South Korea Korean
25. KL BRO Biju Rithvik KLBro Biju 47.3 Vlogging  India Malayalam
26. Alan Chikin Chow — 46.3 Comedy  United States English
27. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 46.2 Education  South Korea English
28. LankyBox — 45.3 Games  United States English
29. Vijay Television Star Vijay 43.6 Entertainment  India Tamil
30. Wave Music — 43.4 Music  India Bhojpuri
31. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 43.2 Music  India Hindi[9]
32. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 42 Education  Russia Russian
33. Tips Official Tips Industries 41.3 Entertainment  India Hindi
34. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 41 Education  United Kingdom English
35. Tsuriki Show — 40.8 Comedy  Germany English
36. D Billions — 40.7 Entertainment  Kyrgyzstan English
37. Ananya Kandhal __ 40.5 Entertainment  India Hindi
38. LeoNata Family — 39.9 People  United States English
39. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 39.4 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
40. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 38.6 Music  Brazil Portuguese
41. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 38 Education  India Hindi
42. Blackpink YG Entertainment 37 Music  South Korea Korean
43. Taylor Swift — 36.9 Music  United States English
44. Bad Bunny — 36.5 Music  Puerto Rico Spanish
45. HUM TV Hum Network 36.5 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
46. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 36 Music  South Korea Korean
47. LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs — 35.8 Music  Romania English
48. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 35.6 Music  India Hindi
49. Alfredo Larin __ 35.6 Entertainment  El Salvador Spanish
50. Galinha Pintadinha __ 34.1 Entertainment  Brazil Brazilian Portuguese
As of October, 2024

Historical progression

The first YouTube channel to exceed 10 billion total views was PewDiePie in September 2015. Since then, about 430 channels have exceeded 10 billion total views as of May 2024.

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 255 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 2817 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

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