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 August 2023. The top 50 most-viewed channels have all surpassed 28 billion total views. 40 of these have surpassed 30 billion total views, and 21 have surpassed 40 billion total views, and 4 have surpassed 100 billion total views.[1][6]

Top channels (views)

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Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 229.56 Music  India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 165.36 Education  United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 149.41 Entertainment  India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 101.77 Entertainment  India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 93.80 Entertainment  Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 90.83 Entertainment  Russia Russian and English
7. WWE WWE 77.89 Sports  United States English
8. Vlad and Niki — 77.70 Entertainment  United States English
9. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 74.63 Entertainment  India Hindi
10. Colors TV Viacom18 62.41 Entertainment  India Hindi
11. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 59.48 Film  United States English
12. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 58.43 Music  India Hindi
13. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 57.71 Music  Argentina Spanish
14. netd müzik netd.com 56.45 Music  Turkey Turkish
15. Ryan's World PocketWatch 55.45 Entertainment  United States English
16. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 50.46 Entertainment  Philippines Filipino
17. Toys and Colors — 47.40 Entertainment  United States English
18. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 46.11 Education  India Hindi and English
19. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 45.20 Education  Canada English
20. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 42.00 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
21. Wave Music — 40.77 Music  India Bhojpuri
22. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 39.51 Education  United Kingdom English
23. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 39.19 Education  United States English
24. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 38.96 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
25. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 36.76 Music  Brazil Portuguese
26. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 36.68 Education  Russia Russian
27. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 36.24 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
28. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 35.73 Music  India Hindi[9]
29. LankyBox — 35.00 Games  United States English
30. Tips Official Tips Industries 33.79 Entertainment  India Hindi
31. Blackpink YG Entertainment 32.88 Music  South Korea Korean
32. LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs — 32.59 Music  Romania English
33. D Billions — 32.36 Entertainment  Kyrgyzstan English
34. Tsuriki Show — 32.01 Comedy  Germany English
35. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 31.14 Education  India Hindi
36. Bad Bunny — 30.98 Music  Puerto Rico Spanish
37. Get Movies LetsonCorp 30.95 Film  Russia Russian
38. Justin Bieber — 30.73 Music  Canada English
39. Ed Sheeran — 30.51 Music  United Kingdom English
40. Taylor Swift — 30.26 Music  United States English
41. Vijay Television Star Vijay 30.10 Entertainment  India Tamil
42. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 29.88 Music  India Hindi
43. Ch3Thailand — 29.81 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
44. MrBeast — 29.45 Entertainment  United States English
45. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 29.12 Music  South Korea Korean
46. PewDiePie — 29.07 Games  Sweden English
47. Sony Music India Sony Music 29.02 Music  India Hindi
48. Shemaroo Filmi Gaane Shemaroo Entertainment[10] 28.83 Music  India Hindi
49. Sony PAL Sony Music 28.83 Entertainment  India Hindi
50. DisneyMusicVevo The Walt Disney Company 28.75 Music  United States English
As of 4 August 2023

Historical progression

The first-created and first-viewed YouTube channel was "Jawed" created on April 23, 2005 by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim.[11] 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. Including recent YouTube star, MrBeast who recently exceeded 171 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.[12]

T-Series became the most-viewed YouTube channel of 2016,[13][14][15] and exceeded 14 billion total views by January 2017.[16] It eventually surpassed PewDiePie to become the most-viewed YouTube channel of all time by February 16, 2017,[17] and currently maintains the lead with over 229 billion total views. T-Series has also had the most monthly views since 2016,[18][19] and received more than 2.8 billion views per month as of May 2019.[20]

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 2384 14.8 billion [17]  India
PewDiePie Felix Kjellberg December 29, 2014 780 7.7 billion [21][22][23]  Sweden
EMI Music EMI Music Publishing June 15, 2014 197 6.2 billion [24]  United Kingdom
RihannaVEVO Rihanna March 22, 2014 85 4.4 billion [25]  Barbados
Machinima Machinima, Inc. July 29, 2013 236 2.0 billion [26][27]  United States
VEVO Vevo March 23, 2013 128 1.7 billion [28]
Universal Music Group Universal Music Group October 1, 2011 539 532 million [29]
Jawed Jawed Karim April 23, 2005 1 [11]

Timeline of most-viewed YouTube channels (January 2006 – June 2023)

See also

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