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Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel, with over 295 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 295 billion total views as of May 2025.

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[as of?]. The channels are ordered by number of views. The top 50 most-viewed channels have all surpassed 39 billion total views.[1][6]

Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 295 Music  India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 201 Education  United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 176 Entertainment  India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 128 Entertainment  India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 114 Entertainment  Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 112 Entertainment  Russia Russian and English
7. Vlad and Niki — 106 Entertainment  United States English
8. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 102 Entertainment  India Hindi
9. WWE WWE 94 Entertainment  United States English
10. Toys and Colors — 93 Entertainment  United States English
11. MrBeast — 81.2 Entertainment  United States English
12. Colors TV Viacom18 79.7 Entertainment  India Hindi
13. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 77.2 Music  India Hindi
14. 김프로KIMPRO — 71.4 People  South Korea Korean
15. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 70.7 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
16. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 66.7 Music  Argentina Spanish
17. KL BRO Biju Rithvik KLBro Biju 66.4 Vlogging  India Malayalam
18. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 65.6 Film  United States English
19. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 63.9 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
20. StarPlus Disney Star 63.2 Entertainment  India Hindi
21. Anaya Kandhal __ 60.5 Entertainment  India Hindi
22. Ryan's World PocketWatch 60.4 Entertainment  United States English
23. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 57.1 Entertainment  Philippines Filipino
24. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 56.1 Education  Canada English
25. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 54.7 Education  India Hindi and English
26. netd müzik netd.com 54.6 Music  Turkey Turkish
27. Alan Chikin Chow — 50.7 Comedy  United States English
28. Vijay Television Star Vijay 50.4 Entertainment  India Tamil
29. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 49.7 Education  South Korea English
30. Alfredo Larin __ 47.7 Entertainment  El Salvador Spanish
31. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 47.5 Music  India Hindi[9]
32. Tips Official Tips Industries 46.5 Entertainment  India Hindi
33. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 45.8 Entertainment  Russia Russian
34. D Billions — 45.4 Entertainment  Kyrgyzstan English
35. Wave Music — 45.2 Music  India Bhojpuri
36. ISSEI / いっせい — 44.9 Entertainment  Japan Japanese
37. Sierra & Rhia FAM — 44.8 Entertainment  Canada English
38. HUM TV Hum Network 44.4 Entertainment  Pakistan Urdu
39. LeoNata Family — 44.3 People  United States English
40. Tsuriki Show — 44.1 Comedy  Germany English
41. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 42.2 Education  India Hindi
42. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs — 41.9 Education  United Kingdom English
43. WorkpointOfficial Workpoint Entertainment 41 Entertainment  Thailand Thai
44. Bad Bunny — 40.1 Music  Puerto Rico Spanish
45. The geeta gurjar — 39.8 People  India Hindi
46. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 39.6 Music  India Hindi
47. Canal KondZilla ONErpm 39.3 Music  Brazil Portuguese
48. LankyBox — 39.1 Games  United States English
49. HYBE LABELS Hybe Corporation 39.1 Music  South Korea Korean
50. Taylor Swift — 39 Music  United States English

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 295 billion total views. T-Series has also had the most monthly views since 2016 until May 2025,[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 3013 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 – May 2025)

See also

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References

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