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[update]. 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]
Rank | Channel name | Network | Views[1] (billions) |
Content category[1] |
Country | Primary language(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | T-Series | T-Series | 229.56 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi |
2. | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | Moonbug Entertainment | 165.36 | Education | ![]() |
English |
3. | SET India | Culver Max Entertainment | 149.41 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
4. | Sony SAB | Culver Max Entertainment | 101.77 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
5. | Kids Diana Show | AIR[7] | 93.80 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
6. | Like Nastya | Yoola | 90.83 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Russian and English |
7. | WWE | WWE | 77.89 | Sports | ![]() |
English |
8. | Vlad and Niki | — | 77.70 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
9. | Zee TV | Zee Entertainment Enterprises | 74.63 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
10. | Colors TV | Viacom18 | 62.41 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
11. | Movieclips | Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips | 59.48 | Film | ![]() |
English |
12. | Zee Music Company | Zee Entertainment Enterprises | 58.43 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi |
13. | El Reino Infantil | Leader Music | 57.71 | Music | ![]() |
Spanish |
14. | netd müzik | netd.com | 56.45 | Music | ![]() |
Turkish |
15. | Ryan's World | PocketWatch | 55.45 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
16. | ABS-CBN Entertainment | ABS-CBN | 50.46 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Filipino |
17. | Toys and Colors | — | 47.40 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
18. | ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs | ChuChu TV | 46.11 | Education | ![]() |
Hindi and English |
19. | Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs | — | 45.20 | Education | ![]() |
English |
20. | HAR PAL GEO | Geo Entertainment | 42.00 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Urdu |
21. | Wave Music | — | 40.77 | Music | ![]() |
Bhojpuri |
22. | Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs | — | 39.51 | Education | ![]() |
English |
23. | Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories | The Pinkfong Company | 39.19 | Education | ![]() |
English |
24. | ARY Digital HD | ARY Digital Network | 38.96 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Urdu |
25. | Canal KondZilla | ONErpm | 36.76 | Music | ![]() |
Portuguese |
26. | Маша и Медведь | LetsonCorp | 36.68 | Education | ![]() |
Russian |
27. | WorkpointOfficial | Workpoint Entertainment | 36.24 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Thai |
28. | YRF | Yash Raj Films[8] | 35.73 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi[9] |
29. | LankyBox | — | 35.00 | Games | ![]() |
English |
30. | Tips Official | Tips Industries | 33.79 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
31. | Blackpink | YG Entertainment | 32.88 | Music | ![]() |
Korean |
32. | LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs | — | 32.59 | Music | ![]() |
English |
33. | D Billions | — | 32.36 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
34. | Tsuriki Show | — | 32.01 | Comedy | ![]() |
English |
35. | Infobells - Hindi | Infobelle Interactive Solution | 31.14 | Education | ![]() |
Hindi |
36. | Bad Bunny | — | 30.98 | Music | ![]() |
Spanish |
37. | Get Movies | LetsonCorp | 30.95 | Film | ![]() |
Russian |
38. | Justin Bieber | — | 30.73 | Music | ![]() |
English |
39. | Ed Sheeran | — | 30.51 | Music | ![]() |
English |
40. | Taylor Swift | — | 30.26 | Music | ![]() |
English |
41. | Vijay Television | Star Vijay | 30.10 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Tamil |
42. | T-Series Bhakti Sagar | T-Series | 29.88 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi |
43. | Ch3Thailand | — | 29.81 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Thai |
44. | MrBeast | — | 29.45 | Entertainment | ![]() |
English |
45. | HYBE LABELS | Hybe Corporation | 29.12 | Music | ![]() |
Korean |
46. | PewDiePie | — | 29.07 | Games | ![]() |
English |
47. | Sony Music India | Sony Music | 29.02 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi |
48. | Shemaroo Filmi Gaane | Shemaroo Entertainment[10] | 28.83 | Music | ![]() |
Hindi |
49. | Sony PAL | Sony Music | 28.83 | Entertainment | ![]() |
Hindi |
50. | DisneyMusicVevo | The Walt Disney Company | 28.75 | Music | ![]() |
English |
As of 4 August 2023[update] |
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.
Channel name | Network / owner | Date achieved | Days held | Views | Reference | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T-Series | T-Series | February 16, 2017 | 2384 | 14.8 billion | [17] | ![]() |
PewDiePie | Felix Kjellberg | December 29, 2014 | 780 | 7.7 billion | [21][22][23] | ![]() |
EMI Music | EMI Music Publishing | June 15, 2014 | 197 | 6.2 billion | [24] | ![]() |
RihannaVEVO | Rihanna | March 22, 2014 | 85 | 4.4 billion | [25] | ![]() |
Machinima | Machinima, Inc. | July 29, 2013 | 236 | 2.0 billion | [26][27] | ![]() |
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)