New Delhi: Music company T-Series on Wednesday said that it has become biggest YouTube channel with 100 million subscribers.

The company has already surpassed its major online rival PewDiePie which has a subscriber base of 96 million. PewDiePie is the channel of Swedish Youtuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg. He is an actor, comedian and gamer–commentator and best known for his YouTube video content.

"World’s biggest YouTube Channel, T-Series has achieved another YouTube milestone by being the first one to cross an astonishing #100MillionSubscribers. Thank you for being part of our journey. T-Series - Making India Proud," the company tweeted. It also changed it cover picture on Twitter.

PewDiePie had maintained his lead on YouTube for five years. Since October 2018, PewDiePie and T-Series have been fighting for the YouTube crown but things began to change in favour of the Indian music label and film production company after it started gaining more than 100,000 subscribers everyday in 2018. Started in early 1980s, the Indian music label is owned by Gulshan Kumar and Bhusan Kumar.

The T-Series channel primarily contains Indian music videos (Bollywood music and Indi-pop) as well as Bollywood film trailers, and uploads several videos every day. It has updated 13.3 thousand videos as of 21 April 2019.

Although not widely known in the United States, T-Series is one of the most watched YouTube channel in the world. T-Series started posting trailers and music videos from its catalog on YouTube in earnest in late 2010. </s> The Bollywood music scene makes a major global moment as one of its leading content providers hits a humongous milestone.

Late on May 29, 2019, YouTube congratulated T-Series for hitting 100 million subscribers making it the first channel on the platform to earn as many subscribers. T-Series is a record label and film production agency in India founded in 1983 by the late Bollywood movie producer Gulshan Kumar. The company only began embracing YouTube in 2010 with 100 million fans speaking to India's quickly growing online population, content viewers as well as the dominance a company like T-Series has on its entertainment market. T-Series operates a slew of channels, primarily hosting music videos and film trailers in Hindi, but also includes some content in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The rapid growth of T-Series—including hitting 50 million subscribers less than a year ago on June 27, 2018—is also thought to speak to Bollywood's growing audience outside of India. In late 2018, the New York Times shared that "just less than half of T-Series' traffic comes from India, with 12% coming from the United States."

While the Bollywood scene has yet to have a big crossover moment like some other international music genres, T-Series acts as a go-to space to for those looking to tap into the scene. Some of India's biggest international names like Priyanka Chopra and A. R. Rahman have worked with the company, while artists like Pitbull, M.I.A. and Akon have also collaborated with the label.

Notably, T-Series also beats out controversial YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg as the first to channel to hit 100 million subscribers and solidifies its place as the largest channel on the platform.

Check out the Top 10 most popular videos on T-Series channel, which tends to see high views from both its lyric and official performance music videos. Singer-songwriter Guru Randhawa, who collaborated with Pitbull in April 2019 on the track "Slowly Slowly," leads the list with the two most-watched individual videos. Meanwhile, the song "Dilbar" is considered the most popular song on the channel with a video starring Nora Fatehi boasting more than a half-billion views as additional versions of the song's video have collected another half-billion views for a total of nearly 1.1 billion views of the song across YouTube. </s> Indian music label, T-Series, has made a new Guinness World Record after becoming the first YouTube channel to surpass 100 million subscribers. It officially became the first YouTube channel to reach 100 million subscribers on the video platform on Wednesday. Guinness World Records, in a tweet, stated that T-Series' has reached a remarkable online video milestone and congratulated the Indian music label for surpassing the 100 million subscribers on YouTube.

T-Series surpassed the record of Swedish YouTuber Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel, which has around 96 million subscribers on YouTube. PewDiePie is known for his comedy sketches on the video sharing platform. His YouTube channel was the first one to reach 50 million subscribers milestone.

Earlier, T-Series tweeted that the world's biggest YouTube channel has achieved another milestone by being the first one to cross 100 million subscribers.

T-Series, which has a team of 13 people that handles its YouTube portfolio, has continued its online success with more than 20 million albums, reported guinnessworldrecords.com. The channel gained its last 50 million subscribers in less than a year. Singers like Guru Randhawa and soundtrack from Bollywood movie Simmba helped the company boost its overall number, suggest reports.

The Delhi-based company has achieved the milestone of 100 million YouTube subscribers after a public internet war with PewDiePie. They were also involved in several sub wars, diss videos, and memes in the past.

Felix Kjellberg had earlier shared a music video titled 'Congratulations', acknowledging his YouTube channel's defeat. Two of PewDiePie's videos, including 'Congratulations', were removed from the platform after an order by the Delhi high court.

According to a social media analytics page, Social Blade, T-Series was expected to cross the 100 million mark on May 21, 2019. However, Social Blade stated PewDiePie could cross the coveted 100 million mark by June 2.

T-Series had previously surpassed PewDiePie several times. The music label, in February, crossed PewDiePie for just a few minutes and maintained the lead for a longer period in March.

T-Series and PewDiePie have been in battle for the YouTube crown since October 2018. PewDiePie was leading in terms of subscribers for the last five years.

T-Series was founded by Gulshan Kumar in 1983. Kumar was originally a fruit juice seller in Dehli, and worked until the company's first big break when Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla's Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak became one of the best-selling music albums. </s> The T-Series/PewDiePie battle has been raging for months, but it looks like T-Series has won the war.

The Indian record label and film production company has become the first YouTube channel to reach 100 million subscribers.

The record was confirmed this week, with the channel – which specialises in sharing movie trailers and Bollywood songs primarily in Hindi – celebrating the huge milestone.

T-Series, who uploaded their first video on 23 December 2010, tweeted: ‘World’s biggest YouTube Channel, T-Series has achieved another YouTube milestone by being the first one to cross an astonishing #100MillionSubscribers.

‘Thank you for being part of our journey. T-Series – Making India Proud.’

They also changed their YouTube channel banner to read: ‘Thank you fans – T-Series is globally the first YouTube channel to cross 100 million subscribers.’

YouTube congratulated the Indian channel, tweeting: ‘Congratulations to @TSeries for reaching 100M subscribers!’, while YouTube India wrote: ‘We have a century! Congratulations on 100 million subscribers, @TSeries.’

PewDiePie has yet to comment on losing out on the record.

The Swedish gamer, who started up his channel eight months before T-Series did, is currently on 96,213,784 subscribers – which is in no way shabby.

The 29-year-old, real name Felix Kjellberg, last month called for an end to the ‘Subscribe to PewDiePie’ movement, saying it had gone too far.

In an effort to retain PewDiePie’s number one most subscribed YouTube channel spot over T-Series, the YouTuber’s fans held a series of stunts under the ‘Subscribe To PewDiePie’ campaign – including fans hacking GTA V, Justin Roberts buying a $1 million billboard, and Mr Beast pulling out all the stops.

However, after the suspected Christchurch shooter said ‘Subscribe To PewDiePie’ in the live stream of the massacre, Pewds has enough.

He said: ‘I think it’s time to end the Subscribe To PewDiePie movement, or meme. It’s something that started off as a way to keep me as the number one most subscribed channel on YouTube, and seeing so many people come to my support, other creators as well, it’s been incredibly humbling to me. It really, really meant a lot.

‘At first, its started off with people doing really positive and fun things to get attention, through Subscribe to PewDiePie. But when you have 90 million people riled up about something, you’re bound to get a few degenerates.’

PewDiePie singled out the ‘Sub to PewDiePie’ graffiti scrawled on a WWII memorial, saying: ‘So disgusting, so disappointing to have my name and community dragged into that. I didn’t want hateful acts to overpower all these amazing things people were doing, cool and positive things.’

He then turned his attention to his name being mentioned by the Christchurch shooter who said ‘remember lads, subscribe to PewDiePie’ before a massacre that killed 50 people.

The gamer said: ‘Out of the respect for the families and victims involved, I chose not to address it further than on Twitter, where I disavowed the actions taken that day and gave my sincerest condolences to everyone affected.

‘To have my name associated with something so unspeakably vile has affected me in more ways that I might have shown. I didn’t want to address it right away, I didn’t want to give the terrorist more attention, I didn’t want to make it about me, because I don’t think it has anything to do with me. To put it plainly, I didn’t want hate to win. But it’s clear to me know, the Subscribe to PewDiePie movement should have ended then.’

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MORE: My Label and Me: I served my time but people still me as a criminal </s> T-Series on Wednesday shattered all its previous records to become the first YouTube channel with 100 million subscribers. The music label’s YouTube channel immediately put out a banner announcing the feat that not only makes it significantly ahead of its cut-throat opponent PewDiePie but also marks what many of its subscribers call ‘India’s victory’.

Racing past PewDiePie, T-Series is now ratcheting beyond the 100 million mark, leaving the Swedish YouTuber fall short by nearly four million subscribers. The YouTube channel, owned by one of India’s biggest music labels, dethroned PewDiePie to become the most subscribed channel earlier this year, after a neck and neck rally since last year. The hype around this contest gained momentum eventually, dividing the Internet into two groups – those who favour T-Series and the otherwise.

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PewDiePie has, on multiple occasions, spoken up on the presence of corporate entities on YouTube and how they are cannibalising the business of independent creators such as he. After T-Series won the race for the first time, PewDiePie released a diss video, one of the many, to call out T-Series but he made some objectionable remarks about India. The online scuffle reached India’s courts for the part where the integrity of the country was questioned, resulting in the song’s ban for the Swedish artist.

But this is one of the few episodes that brought upon PewDiePie’s downfall. The unfortunate mass killing in New Zealand’s Christchurch Mosque involved PewDiePie inadvertently. The shooter streamed the shooting online, urging viewers to subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel. This was a wake-up call for the Swedish artist and he pulled the plug on his YouTube campaign to overtake T-Series.

T-Series, on the other hand, gained support from the Bollywood fraternity, in addition to its followers in India and elsewhere. T-Series MD Bhushan Kumar, earlier this year, posted a short video on Twitter asking for support to make the company’s YouTube channel cross PewDiePie. It seems his requests have been answered in bounties. </s> The feud between PewDiePie and T-Series has been ongoing since October last year when the Indian music label started to close the gap on the YouTuber’s reign as the most-subscribed channel.

Since then there has been a back-and-forth battle that has seen them swithc positions mulitple times.

T-Series has finally secured it’s position at the top and has become the first YouTube channel tor reach 100 million subscribers.

What is PewDiePie’s sub count?

PewDiePie currently has 96,221,306 subscribers, putting him around four million behind T-Series which is currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube.

T-Series currently boasts 100,124,966 subscribers after passing the 100 million mark earlier today.

he upload count between the two is quite different, with T-Series uploading 13,443 videos, while PewDiePie currently has 3,847 videos uploaded to his channel.

This has also had an impact on the number of video views, with T-Series having over 71 billion, while PewDiePie trails behind with 21 billion.

The two channels have gone on to overtake many of YouTube’s own channels when it comes to subscriber count, including Movies and Gaming, and they are now closing in on the overall most subscribed channel.

YouTube Music is the only channel left on the website that the two rivals can still overtake, as it currently has 106,378,448 subscribers.

It is more of a way to promote music videos, and the channel doesn’t upload any content of it’s own, but it’s ability to feature top music has made it popular with users.

What is the PewDiePie and T-Series fued?

The battle for subscribers between the two channels started last year after T-Series became the most-viewed channel on YouTube.

It then started to rapidly gain subscribers and close the gap on PewDiePie, who was the most subscribed YouTuber for a long time.

He then started asking fans to help him keep the top spot on YouTube and this was followed by support from a number of other big YouTubers.

This led to support from people like Mr Beast, Alfie Deyes and Logan Paul.

T-Series chairman Bhushan Kumar then released a video addressing citizens in India to support the channel.

In the video, he said: ‘There is an Indian YouTube channel on the brink of becoming the world’s number one. It’s taken us a lot of effort to come this far.’

PewDiePie eventually gave up in his battle against T-Series in March and in a video on his channel he said: ‘ T-Series has been in the lead for the past couple of days.

‘Who cares about sub count anyway? Honestly, so lame,’ he joked. ‘This was all just a troll. It was a big troll. I said it, I don’t care about numbers.’

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MORE: YouTuber Jake Paul sparks backlash as he advertises for intern that will be paid with ‘fun’ not money </s> T-Series is officially the first YouTube channel to reach 100 million subscribers on the video platform. PewDiePie, T-Series' competitor, has fallen behind with his subscriber base at 96 million. The Indian music label achieved the milestone of 100 million YouTube subscribers after a public internet war with PewDiePie, involving sub wars, memes and more.

T-Series, in a tweet, said that the world's biggest YouTube channel has achieved another milestone by being the first one to cross 100 million subscribers.

The Swedish YouTube star, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, had earlier shared a music video titled 'Congratulations', acknowledging his YouTube channel, PewDiePie's defeat. Two of PewDiePie's videos, including 'Congratulations', were removed from the platform after an order by the Delhi High Court.

According to Social Blade, a social media analytics page, T-Series was expected to cross the 100 million mark on 21st May 2019. As for the Swedish YouTuber, PewDiePie was predicted to cross 100 million mark by June 2.

T-Series had previously surpassed PewDiePie numerous times. The music label, in February, crossed PewDiePie for just a few minutes and maintained the lead for a longer period in March.

T-Series and PewDiePie have been in battle for the YouTube crown since October 2018. PewDiePie was leading in terms of subscribers for the last five years.

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Also read: Havells posts net profit of Rs 792 crore in FY19, board recommends dividend </s> The online battle between PewDiePie and T-Series has now reached a major milestone. T-Series is officially the first YouTube channel to reach 100 million subscribers. The Indian music label’s competitor, PewDiePie is behind with his subscriber base touching 96 million.

T-Series’ achievement was earlier predicted by social media analytics page, Social Blade. T-Series was expected to reach the 100 million mark on May 21. T-Series has created history on YouTube, although a few days late. As for PewDiePie, the Swedish YouTuber was predicted to get 100 million subscribers latest by June 2.

The achievement for T-Series seems unsurprising too since the YouTube channel started beating PewDiePie numerous times. Starting in February, T-Series crossed PewDiePie but only for a few minutes. It soon managed to maintain the lead for longer later in March.

PewDiePie and T-Series have been battling it out since October 2018 for the YouTube crown. PewDiePie who maintained his lead for five years was threatened with the increasingly fast subscriber growth of T-Series. What began as a fun campaign for PewDiePie to get subscribers turned out to instead boost T-Series’ channel.

This online battle has also helped increase subscriber growth of both YouTube channels. T-Series and PewDiePie were hovering around 67 million subscribers. There were some ugly sides of this online battle as well leading to a court order for PewDiePie in India. Complaints against the Swedish YouTuber’s diss videos led to the Delhi High Court blocking them in India. </s> T-Series beats PewDiePie to become first YouTube channel with 100 million subscribers

It might be far from reaching a conclusion but for now, the online battle between PewDiePie and T-Series has arrived at an interesting point. The YouTube channel of T-Series, that has managed to stay ahead of PewDiePie’s in the last few weeks, has now become the first in the world to touch a subscriber base of 100 million. The Swedish YouTuber, known for his cheeky sense of humour, is currently lagging behind with over 96 million subscribers.

Social Blade, a social media analytics page, had earlier predicted that T-Series will achieve the big feat on May 21. Although the Indian music label got late by eight days, there is no doubt that it has created history. PewDiePie, it has been forecast, will reach the 100 million-mark on June 2.

T-Series, on its official Instagram account, announced the big victory. Their post read, “World’s biggest YouTube Channel T-Series has achieved another YouTube milestone by being the first one to cross an astonishing 100 million subscribers Thank You Fans for being part of our journey. TSeries - Making India Proud”

Netizens have witnessed cut-throat competition between T-Series and PewDiePie in the last couple of weeks. The fight between the YouTube biggies was so close that during one phase, tables were turning every other day. While T-Series dethroned PewDiePie in February only for a few minutes, it maintained its top position for much longer in March.

The fight between the two giants began in October last year. PewDiePie, who had been on numero uno spot for almost half a decade, then, for the first time, felt threatened by the ever-growing subscriber base of T-Series.

T-Series and PewDiePie have benefitted immensely from this battle of subscribers. Back in October, both channels had a subscriber base of nearly 67 million subscribers. Not a year has passed and one of them has hit a century and the other is close to hitting one.
Indian record label and film production company T-Series' most-subscribed YouTube channel reaches 100 million subscribers.