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List of most-viewed YouTube channels

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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 250 billion total views as of April 2024.

Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel, with over 250 billion views.

50 most-viewed channels edit

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 30 billion total views.[1][6]

Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 252.58 Music   India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 181.06 Education   United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 162.16 Entertainment   India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 113.10 Entertainment   India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 102.18 Entertainment   Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 99.51 Entertainment   Russia Russian and English
7. Vlad and Niki — 89.13 Entertainment   United States English
8. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 88.28 Entertainment   India Hindi
9. WWE WWE 83.62 Entertainment   United States English
10. Colors TV Viacom18 69.64 Entertainment   India Hindi
11. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 65.66 Music   India Hindi
12. Toys and Colors — 62.65 Entertainment   United States English
13. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 61.69 Film   United States English
14. netd müzik netd.com 60.10 Music   Turkey Turkish
15. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 59.37 Music   Argentina Spanish
16. Ryan's World PocketWatch 57.37 Entertainment   United States English
17. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 54.48 Entertainment   Philippines Filipino
18. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 51.41 Entertainment   Pakistan Urdu
19. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 50.41 Education   India Hindi and English
20. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 50.05 Education   Canada English
21. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 49.50 Entertainment   Pakistan Urdu
22. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 48.18 Education   South Korea English
23. MrBeast — 46.98 Entertainment   United States English
24. Wave Music — 42.49 Music   India Bhojpuri
25. LankyBox — 41.76 Games   United States English
26. StarPlus Disney Star 40.31 Entertainment   India Hindi
27. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 40.30 Music   India Hindi[9]
28. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 40.10 Education   United Kingdom English
29. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 39.96 Education   Russia Russian
30. Vijay Television Star Vijay 38.78 Entertainment   India Tamil
31. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 38.16 Music   Brazil Portuguese
32. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 38.03 Entertainment   Thailand Thai
33. D Billions — 37.92 Entertainment   Kyrgyzstan English
34. Tips Official Tips Industries 37.91 Entertainment   India Hindi
35. Tsuriki Show — 37.41 Comedy   Germany English
36. Alan Chikin Chow — 36.97 Comedy   United States English
37. LeoNata Family — 36.91 People   United States English
38. 김프로KIMPRO — 36.30 People   South Korea Korean
39. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 35.43 Education   India Hindi
40. KL BRO Biju Rithvik KLBro Biju 35.35 Vlogging   India Malayalam
41. Blackpink YG Entertainment 35.29 Music   South Korea Korean
42. Bad Bunny — 34.31 Music   Puerto Rico Spanish
43. LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs — 34.10 Music   Romania English
44. Taylor Swift — 34.03 Music   United States English
45. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 33.57 Music   India Hindi
46. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 33.34 Music   South Korea Korean
47. Get Movies LetsonCorp 32.53 Film   Russia Russian
48. Sony PAL Sony Music 32.22 Entertainment   India Hindi
49. Ed Sheeran — 32.11
50. Justin Bieber — 31.98 Music   Canada English
As of April 19, 2024

Historical progression edit

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 2622 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 edit

References edit

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