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Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel, with over 276 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 276 billion total views as of December 2024.

50 most-viewed channels

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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 278 Music  India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 193 Education  United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 172 Entertainment  India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 122 Entertainment  India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 108 Entertainment  Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 107 Entertainment  Russia Russian and English
7. Vlad and Niki — 98.4 Entertainment  United States English
8. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 97 Entertainment  India Hindi
9. WWE WWE 89.8 Entertainment  United States English
10. Toys and Colors — 81 Entertainment  United States English
11. Colors TV Viacom18 76.2 Entertainment  India Hindi
12. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 71.6 Music  India Hindi
13. MrBeast — 65.4 Entertainment  United States English
14. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 64 Film  United States English
15. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 63.7 Music  Argentina Spanish
16. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 63.5 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
17. netd müzik netd.com 59.7 Music  Turkey Turkish
18. Ryan's World PocketWatch 59.1 Entertainment  United States English
19. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 58.8 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
20. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 56.1 Entertainment  Philippines Filipino
21. 김프로KIMPRO — 55.2 People  South Korea Korean
22. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 53.6 Education  Canada English
23. StarPlus Disney Star 53.6 Entertainment  India Hindi
24. KL BRO Biju Rithvik KLBro Biju 53.1 Vlogging  India Malayalam
25. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 53 Education  India Hindi and English
26. Alan Chikin Chow — 48.5 Comedy  United States English
27. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 47.4 Education  South Korea English
28. Vijay Television Star Vijay 47.2 Entertainment  India Tamil
29. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 44.4 Music  India Hindi[9]
30. LankyBox — 43.9 Games  United States English
31. Wave Music — 43.8 Music  India Bhojpuri
32. Ananya Kandhal __ 43.8 Entertainment  India Hindi
33. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 43.1 Education  Russia Russian
34. Tips Official Tips Industries 42.8 Entertainment  India Hindi
35. D Billions — 42.2 Entertainment  Kyrgyzstan English
36. Tsuriki Show — 41.6 Comedy  Germany English
37. LeoNata Family — 41.2 People  United States English
38. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 41.2 Education  United Kingdom English
39. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 39.8 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
40. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 39.3 Education  India Hindi
41. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 38.9 Music  Brazil Portuguese
42. Alfredo Larin __ 38.6 Entertainment  El Salvador Spanish
43. HUM TV Hum Network 38.4 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
44. Taylor Swift — 37.6 Music  United States English
45. Blackpink YG Entertainment 37.4 Music  South Korea Korean
46. Bad Bunny — 37.2 Music  Puerto Rico Spanish
47. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 37.1 Music  South Korea Korean
48. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 36.9 Music  India Hindi
49. LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs — 36.8 Music  Romania English
50. Aaj Tak __ 35.3 News  India Hindi
As of December, 2024

Historical progression

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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 2867 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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References

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