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Indian record label T-Series is the most-viewed YouTube channel, with over 310 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 310 billion total views as of September 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 42 billion total views.[1][6]

Rank Channel name Network Views[1]
(billions) 		Content
category[1] 		Country Primary language(s)
1. T-Series T-Series 310 Music India Hindi
2. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes Moonbug Entertainment 209 Education United States English
3. SET India Culver Max Entertainment 181 Entertainment India Hindi
4. Sony SAB Culver Max Entertainment 133 Entertainment India Hindi
5. Kids Diana Show AIR[7] 118 Entertainment Ukraine English
6. Like Nastya Yoola 115 Entertainment Russia Russian and English
7. Vlad and Niki — 111 Entertainment United States English
8. Zee TV Zee Entertainment Enterprises 108 Entertainment India Hindi
9. Toys and Colors — 104 Entertainment United States English
10. 김프로KIMPRO — 103 People South Korea Korean
11. WWE WWE 97.7 Entertainment United States English
12. MrBeast — 93.8 Entertainment United States English
13. Colors TV Viacom18 81.3 Entertainment India Hindi
14. Zee Music Company Zee Entertainment Enterprises 81 Music India Hindi
15. KL BRO Biju Rithvik KLBro Biju 78.1 Vlogging India Malayalam
16. Anaya Kandhal __ 75.3 Entertainment India Hindi
17. HAR PAL GEO Geo Entertainment 74.2 Entertainment Pakistan Urdu
18. El Reino Infantil Leader Music 68.9 Music Argentina Spanish
19. ARY Digital HD ARY Digital Network 67.7 Entertainment Pakistan Urdu
20. Movieclips Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips 66.8 Film United States English
21. Sierra & Rhia FAM — 66.4 Entertainment Canada English
22. StarPlus Disney Star 63.7 Entertainment India Hindi
23. Ryan's World PocketWatch 61.8 Entertainment United States English
24. ABS-CBN Entertainment ABS-CBN 58 Entertainment Philippines Filipino
25. Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs — 57.7 Education Canada English
26. ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs ChuChu TV 56.4 Education India Hindi and English
27. Alan's Universe — 56.2 Comedy United States English
28. ISSEI / いっせい — 54.1 Entertainment Japan Japanese
29. Vijay Television Star Vijay 53.9 Entertainment India Hindi
30. Alfredo Larin __ 53.2 Entertainment El Salvador Spanish
31. Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories The Pinkfong Company 51.7 Education South Korea English
32. netd müzik netd.com 51.4 Music Turkey Turkish
33. YRF Yash Raj Films[8] 51.2 Music India Hindi[9]
34. Tips Official Tips Industries 49.8 Entertainment India Hindi
35. Маша и Медведь LetsonCorp 48.8 Entertainment Russia Russian
36. D Billions — 48.6 Entertainment Kyrgyzstan English
37. The geeta gurjar — 48.5 People India Hindi
38. Zack D. Films — 47.9 Entertainment United States English
39. LeoNata Family — 47.3 People United States English
40. MaviGadget — 47 Technology United States English
41. HUM TV Hum Network 46.7 Entertainment Pakistan Urdu
42. Tsuriki Show — 46.4 Comedy Germany English
43. Wave Music — 46.2 Music India Bhojpuri
44. Diary of 4 — 45.7 People Canada English
45. Celine Dept — 44.2 Entertainment Belgium English
46. Infobells - Hindi Infobelle Interactive Solution 44.1 Education India Hindi
47. Little Baby Bum - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs Moonbug Entertainment 42.7 Education United Kingdom English
48. Bad Bunny — 42.6 Music Puerto Rico Spanish
49. T-Series Bhakti Sagar T-Series 42.1 Music India Hindi
50. dednahype — 42.1 People Latvia 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 308 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 3132 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 – August 2025)

See also

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References

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