T-Series

T-Series is an Indian YouTube channel that was the most subscribed YouTube channel from April 14, 2019 to June 1, 2024. They are owned by Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited (SCIL). Founded by Gulshan Kumar, they also issus Bollywood film productions. They were well known for their subscriber feud with PewDiePie.
==History==
T-Series was founded by Gulshan Kumar on July 11, 1983, as a small company initially selling pirated Bollywood songs. T-Series' first original film soundtrack release was for Lallu Ram in 1984, with music scored by Ravindra Jain. The company's breakthrough came with Aashiqui (1990), a film soundtrack album composed by duo Nadeem–Shravan (Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and Shravan Kumar Rathod), which sold 20 million units in India and is the best-selling Bollywood soundtrack album of all time. Many of the other best-selling Bollywood music albums of the 1990s, particularly those composed by Nadeem–Shravan, was released under the T-Series label. Besides music production, the company also began venturing into film production.
On August 12, 1997, T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar was murdered by the Indian mafia Mumbai underworld syndicate D-Company. His assassination also led to T-Series losing its most prolific musicians at the time, Nadeem–Shravan, due to Nadeem Akhtar Saifi initially being accused of involvement in the murder, before later being exonerated. After Gulshan Kumar's death on August 12, 1997, the company has since been led by his son Bhushan Kumar and younger brother Krishan Kumar.
==YouTube==
On YouTube, T-Series was formerly the most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time with over 266 million subscribers, until MrBeast passed them on June 1st, 2024. T-Series is the second most subscribed youtube channel, having over 90 million more subscribers than 3rd place, Cocomelon. T-Series had became the most-subscribed channel after surpassing PewDiePie on March 27, 2019, the final time being on April 14, 2019. As of June 2024, the channel is currently one of the fastest-growing channel in terms of subscribers, only by MrBeast, SET India and Cocomelon.
T-Series is also the most viewed YouTube channel of all time with over 255 billion channel views, having over 73 billion more views than second place, Cocomelon, and having surpassed the previously most viewed channel, PewDiePie, on February 14, 2017. T-Series is also one of fastest growing YouTube channel in terms of channel views as of April 2024, gaining over 2.4 billion channel views monthly, and averages 80 million channel views gained daily.
==PewDiePie vs T-Series==
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T-Series has been the fastest growing YouTube channel on the platform since late 2017, maintaining a growth of around 100,000 subscribers a day ever since then. The channel's substantial growth began to attract attention from major YouTubers such as Pyrocynical in mid-2018 whilst sub-botting.
On August 29, 2018, PewDiePie made his first video on T-Series due to the small YouTube community and occasional big YouTubers discussing on T-Series growth against PewDiePie. It was featured in a LWIAY episode. PewDiePie mentions T-Series at the start and says he is "looking to fight back IRL" while he flaunts a fake sword, to prevent T-Series from surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers, though obviously as a more exaggerated satirical approach and Felix himself probably has nothing against the company, and definitely nothing against Indians as a whole. This later caused many other creators on YouTube and other media to "fight back" as well, making T-Series more well-known towards the English-speaking audience.
PewDiePie later made a video called "TSERIES EXPOSED?" which is an episode of the PewNews series. PewDiePie reads a YouTube comment off his Reddit. The comment mentions that you will be automatically subscribed to T-Series once you create the account in India. PewDiePie then asked his fans from India to test this out for evidence. PewDiePie also mentions how T-Series having over 62 million subscribers with little to no views on their recently uploaded videos. He later created a diss track named "bitch lasagna".
T-Series was hated a lot because of overtaking PewDiePie, and usually has more dislikes than likes in one of its videos.
===PewDiePie's Diss Track===
On October 5, 2018, PewDiePie released a satirical diss track on T-Series named, "T-Series Diss Track" which after a week later was changed to "bitch lasagna". When the music video was released on the PewDiePie channel, it had received more views than Eminem's song, "Venom" in an hour. It also took down T-Series' growth on that day, gaining only 90,000 subscribers while normally getting 120,000 subscribers a day during that month span.
The diss contains many references, which can be found described in-depth on Genius' bitch lasagna lyric page, many being satirical and joking in nature, with no harmful intentions.
Many seemed to mistake the diss to be towards Indians as a whole, but this is far from the case. The line, "You India, You Lose” for instance, is a reference to his "You Laugh, You Lose" series, which he names "You [Country], You Lose" in case the videos are themed towards memes from a specific a country or nation, such as India or Russia.
===MrBeast advertising PewDiePie===
At the start of the PewDiePie vs T-Series subscriber battle, fellow YouTuber MrBeast wanted to help out PewDiePie and to make sure T-Series does not pass PewDiePie as a collective stand against a big corporation being the most-subscribed channel on YouTube by releasing a video on On October 26, 2018, called "I Bought Every Billboard In My City For This", in which he used the Billboards to advertise PewDiePie, urging people to subscribe to PewDiePie to make sure he stays the most-subscribed YouTube channel. Additionally, MrBeast was able to do the same thing using posters, on National Television, and on the radio. T-Series was around 100,000 subscribers away from surpassing PewDiePie at this time.
After the release of MrBeast's video and the PewDiePie vs T-Series billboard, PewDiePie received over 130,000-180,000 subscribers that day and received over 360,000 subscribers the next day. The 360,000 subscribers are the most subscribers PewDiePie has ever received in a day.
Throughout the subscriber battle of PewDiePie vs T-Series, T-Series has made no response to PewDiePie or the fans. They still continue to release music videos, lyric videos, audio of the music, and BTS. The only thing T-Series mentions that is related to the 'PewDiePie vs T-Series' trend is that they explain on their Twitter that they are "just one small step away from being the worlds largest channel", which the fans do still criticize T-Series for allegedly subscriber-botting. They also were retweeted a few tweets from artists that work at T-Series asking fans to subscribe to T-Series.
Indian YouTuber Saiman Says also contributed, putting up T-Series billboards jokingly around India, though he actually is a fan of PewDiePie and set up real PewDiePie billboards across India in his support, gaining him a shout-out from Felix.
===MrBeast says PewDiePie 100,000 Times===
Even after MrBeast advertised PewDiePie with billboards, it did not stop T-Series from slowing down from PewDiePie longer. T-Series was approximately 90,000 subscribers away from surpassing PewDiePie before MrBeast made another video to keep PewDiePie #1 most-subscribed. On November 25, 2018, MrBeast says PewDiePie 100,000 times. At the start of the video, MrBeast tells his fans and new-comers to subscribe to PewDiePie "and to help him win the war". The subscriber growth was given to PewDiePie once again, gaining 244,000 subscribers the day of MrBeast's upload, and 247,000 subscribers the next day.
===PewDiePie's Surrender===
Even after MrBeast helped out PewDiePie, PewDiePie made a tweet, "It looks like this is it bois." with a picture of a text saying "Dawn of The Final Day -24 Hours Remain-", in which PewDiePie now surrenders his number 1 most-subscribed title, as T-Series growth had not stopped.
MrBeast also made a tweet responding to PewDiePie saying "It was an honor fighting by your side", in which MrBeast gives up and can no longer help PewDiePie further, possibly to prevent lack of PewDiePie videos from MrBeast, as it can get weaker along the way.
Many other well-known internet persona's Grandayy, Sr Pelo and Pyrocynical encouraged PewDiePie to never give up, as other persona's TheSyndicateProject, Mini Ladd and CouRage accepted the fate.
===The Race to 100 Million subscribers===
Since T-Series had surpassed PewDiePie multiple times, Felix changed up the race and decided the finish line would be to reach 100 million subscribers first, instead of keeping the most-subscribed title. Felix claimed after reaching 100 million subscribers before T-Series, he will accept T-Series taking the spot as most-subscribed.
On May 29, 2019, T-Series beat the race to 100 million subscribers against Felix.
===PewDiePie's comeback===
In the early mornings of March 27, 2019, T-Series surpassed PewDiePie. Only this time, it stayed as most-subscribed. Within 2 days, T-Series was 80,000 subscribers ahead. 3 days later, it was 100,000 subscribers ahead on PewDiePie.
3 days after being officially surpassed by T-Series, Felix uploaded a video "We lost (not happy)"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXMDIVioNE, another episode of LWIAY. Felix says that it was all just a troll and sub counts do not matter. One day later, PewDiePie made the music video "Congratulations"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgc8Q6qTjc, congratulating T-Series on surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers.
However, after the "Congratulations" video was released, PewDiePie started gaining a massive following. In just 12 hours, T-Series was 100,000 subscribers ahead and on April 8, 2019, PewDiePie was more than 400,000 subscribers ahead.
===Defeating PewDiePie===
Ever since PewDiePie's music videos were blocked, his growth was slowing down drastically, while T-Series' growth is still consistent. On April 14, 2019, T-Series surpassed PewDiePie to become the most-subscribed YouTube channel and currently is still the most-subscribed as of November 2023.
===The End===
On April 28, 2019, Felix asked his fans to stop the war and the 'Sub to PewDiePie' slogan, citing events like the Christchurch shooting, where a shooter yelled the slogan before opening fire on Muslims worshipping in New Zealand.
“I think it’s time to end the ‘subscribe to Pewdiepie’ movement, or meme,” Felix says in the video. He goes on to say that, following the Christchurch shooting, he came to believe, “It’s clear to me the ‘subscribe to Pewdiepie’ movement should have ended then.”
Originally Felix believed the movement and the meme would only last “just a couple of days or maybe a week” and was surprised by the amount of support it received and continued to receive over the last few months. However, as the meme has continued, it led to some horrendous acts. Felix mentions an example from earlier this year when a World War 2 monument was defaced with graffiti that mentioned the slogan.
Felix states in the video he believes when you have an audience of “over 90 million people, you’re bound to get a few degenerates.” He hoped this graffiti incident would be the end of these more hateful acts inspired by his meme.
“Some of the media,” he says in today’s video, have made the meme about “race or politics or nationality, and I don’t agree with that at all and I want that to stop... This negative rhetoric is something I don’t agree with at all. To make it perfectly clear, no I’m not racist, no I don’t support any form of racist comments or hate toward anyone.”
“This movement started out of love and support,” he concludes, “so let’s end it with that.”
==List of artists==
The following notable musical artists have worked with T-Series and/or had music released under the T-Series label:
*A. R. Rahman
*Aadesh Shrivastava
*Arijit Singh
*Abhijeet Bhattacharya
*Akon
*Adnan Sami
*Alisha Chinai
*Alka Yagnik
*Amitabh Bhattacharya
*Anand–Milind (Anand Shrivastav and Milind Shrivastav)
*Anu Malik
*Anuradha Paudwal
*Anwar
*Armaan Malik
*Amaal Mallik
*Asees Kaur
*Asha Bhosle
*Atif Aslam
*Babul Supriyo
*Darshan Raval
*Devi Sri Prasad
*Dhvani Bhanushali
*Gulzar
*Gurdas Maan
*Guru Randhawa
*Harrdy Sandhu
*Himesh Reshammiya
*Ikka
*Irshad Kamil
*Jagjit Singh
*Jasmin Walia
*Jatin-Lalit (Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit)
*Javed Akhtar
*Jubin Nautiyal
*K.K
*K. S. Chithra
*Kalyanji–Anandji (Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah)
*Kavita Krishnamurthy
*Kishore Kumar
*Kumar Sanu
*Lata Mangeshkar
*Laxmikant–Pyarelal (Laxmikant Shantaram Patil Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma)
*Lucky Ali
*M.I.A.
*Manhar Udhas
*Mohammed Aziz
*Nadeem–Shravan (Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and Shravan Kumar)
*Neha Kakkar
*Nikhil-Vinay (Nikhil Kamath and Vinay Tiwari)
*Nitin Mukesh
*Nora Fatehi
*Pawan Singh
*Pritam
*Pankaj Udhas
*Pitbull
*Purnima
*Raamlaxman
*Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
*Rajesh Roshan
*Raju Singh
*S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
*Saawan Kumar Tak
*Sadhana Sargam
*Sajid–Wajid (Sajid Khan and Wajid Khan)
*Sameer
*Sandeep Chowta
*Sapna Mukherjee
*Shaan
*Shabbir Ahmed
*Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, and Loy Mendonsa)
*Shilpa Rao
*Shreya Ghoshal
*Sonu Nigam
*Sophie Choudry
*Sukhwinder Singh
*Sunidhi Chauhan
*Suresh Wadkar
*Talat Aziz
*Tanishk Bagchi
*Tanvi Shah
*Udit Narayan
*Vishal–Shekhar (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani)
*Vipin Sachdeva
*Yo Yo Honey Singh
*Zack Knight
==Trivia== 
*T-Series is currently the second-most subscribed channel on YouTube, having 266 million subscribers as of June 1, 2024 after MrBeast.
*On March 27, 2019, T-Series surpassed PewDiePie to be the most-subscribed channel until PewDiePie regained his title after the release of Congratulations.
**T-Series and PewDiePie passed each other on several occasions in March 2019, but they did not count as the passings happened in less than 24-hours. The official most-subscribed start date for T-Series is March 27, 2019.
**Even though T-Series has passed PewDiePie multiple times, they have two milestones they had reached before PewDiePie during PewDiePie vs. T-Series was when they were the first to reach 92 and 95 million subscribers, with PewDiePie hitting most of the other milestones.
*T-Series was created in 2006, however, they only started uploading since late 2010.
*T-Series is the first YouTube channel to hit 100 million subscribers.
*T-Series was formerly most followed account on Dailymotion, having 89,885 followers as of April 14, 2021. and now currently has over 43 thousand followers according to SocialBlade.
*T-Series is the 10th most followed social media account of all time as of May 27, 2020, only behind Instagram accounts.
*They were featured in YouTube Rewind 2019.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
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===Video view milestones ===
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*1 billion views: July 2, 2013
*2 billion views: June 13, 2014
*3 billion views: January 6, 2015
*4 billion views: May 30, 2015
*5 billion views: September 28, 2015
*6 billion views: December 18, 2015
*7 billion views: February 25, 2016
*8 billion views: April 23, 2016
*9 billion views: June 18, 2016
*10 billion views: August 14, 2016
*11 billion views: September 30, 2016
*12 billion views: November 11, 2016
*13 billion views: December 19, 2016
*14 billion views: January 15, 2017
*15 billion views: February 24, 2017
*16 billion views: March 23, 2017
*17 billion views: April 14, 2017
*18 billion views: May 13, 2017
*19 billion views: June 9, 2017
*20 billion views: July 6, 2017
*21 billion views: July 29, 2017
*22 billion views: August 19, 2017
*23 billion views: September 10, 2017
*24 billion views: October 2, 2017
*25 billion views: October 23, 2017
*26 billion views: November 14, 2017
*27 billion views: December 4, 2017
*28 billion views: December 23, 2017
*29 billion views: January 10, 2018
*30 billion views: January 26, 2018
*31 billion views: February 10, 2018
*32 billion views: February 25, 2018
*33 billion views: March 10, 2018
*34 billion views: March 24, 2018
*35 billion views: April 7, 2018
*36 billion views: April 21, 2018
*37 billion views: May 6, 2018
*38 billion views: May 21, 2018
*39 billion views: June 7, 2018
*40 billion views: June 21, 2018
*41 billion views: July 4, 2018
*42 billion views: July 14, 2018
*43 billion views: July 25, 2018
*44 billion views: August 4, 2018
*45 billion views: August 14, 2018
*46 billion views: August 24, 2018
*47 billion views: September 3, 2018
*48 billion views: September 13, 2018
*49 billion views: September 25, 2018
*50 billion views: October 7, 2018
*51 billion views: October 20, 2018
*52 billion views: October 31, 2018
*53 billion views: November 12, 2018
*54 billion views: November 25, 2018
*55 billion views: December 7, 2018
*56 billion views: December 17, 2018
*57 billion views: December 27, 2018
*58 billion views: January 6, 2019
*59 billion views: January 16, 2019
*60 billion views: January 26, 2019
*61 billion views: February 5, 2019
*62 billion views: February 15, 2019
*63 billion views: February 25, 2019
*64 billion views: March 8, 2019
*65 billion views: March 19, 2019
*66 billion views: March 29, 2019
*67 billion views: April 9, 2019
*68 billion views: April 20, 2019
*69 billion views: April 29, 2019
*70 billion views: May 11, 2019
*71 billion views: May 21, 2019
*72 billion views: June 1, 2019
*73 billion views: June 11, 2019
*74 billion views: June 21, 2019
*75 billion views: June 29, 2019
*76 billion views: July 10, 2019
*77 billion views: July 20, 2019
*78 billion views: July 31, 2019
*79 billion views: August 10, 2019
*80 billion views: August 18, 2019
*81 billion views: August 29, 2019
*82 billion views: September 8, 2019
*83 billion views: September 18, 2019
*84 billion views: September 29, 2019
*85 billion views: October 9, 2019
*86 billion views: October 19, 2019
*87 billion views: October 28, 2019
*88 billion views: November 7, 2019
*89 billion views: November 17, 2019
*90 billion views: November 25, 2019
*91 billion views: December 4, 2019
*92 billion views: December 14, 2019
*93 billion views: December 23, 2019
*94 billion views: January 2, 2020
*95 billion views: January 11, 2020
*96 billion views: January 19, 2020
*97 billion views: January 27, 2020
*98 billion views: February 4, 2020
*99 billion views: February 12, 2020
*100 billion views: February 20, 2020
*101 billion views: February 28, 2020
*102 billion views: March 8, 2020
*103 billion views: March 23, 2020
*104 billion views: April 1, 2020
*105 billion views: April 12, 2020
*106 billion views: April 22, 2020
*107 billion views: May 2, 2020
*108 billion views: May 12, 2020
*109 billion views: May 22, 2020
*110 billion views: May 30, 2020
*111 billion views: June 7, 2020
*112 billion views: June 16, 2020
*113 billion views: June 23, 2020
*114 billion views: July 1, 2020
*115 billion views: July 8, 2020
*116 billion views: July 16, 2020
*117 billion views: July 24, 2020
*118 billion views: July 31, 2020
*119 billion views: August 8, 2020
*120 billion views: August 15, 2020
*121 billion views: August 22, 2020
*122 billion views: August 30, 2020
*123 billion views: September 7, 2020
*124 billion views: September 14, 2020
*125 billion views: September 21, 2020
*126 billion views: September 29, 2020
*127 billion views: October 7, 2020
*128 billion views: October 15, 2020
*129 billion views: October 22, 2020
*130 billion views: October 30, 2020
*131 billion views: November 7, 2020
*132 billion views: November 15, 2020
*133 billion views: November 24, 2020
*134 billion views: December 1, 2020
*135 billion views: December 9, 2020
*136 billion views: December 17, 2020
*137 billion views: December 25, 2020
*138 billion views: January 2, 2021
*139 billion views: January 10, 2021
*140 billion views: January 18, 2021
*141 billion views: January 26, 2021
*142 billion views: February 3, 2021
*143 billion views: February 11, 2021
*144 billion views: February 18, 2021
*145 billion views: March 1, 2021
*146 billion views: March 9, 2021
*147 billion views: March 17, 2021
*148 billion views: March 25, 2021
*149 billion views: March 31, 2021
*150 billion views: April 8, 2021
*151 billion views: April 17, 2021
*152 billion views: April 27, 2021
*153 billion views: May 6, 2021
*154 billion views: May 17, 2021
*155 billion views: May 28, 2021
*156 billion views: June 7, 2021
*157 billion views: June 17, 2021
*158 billion views: June 27, 2021
*159 billion views: July 8, 2021
*160 billion views: July 17, 2021
*161 billion views: July 27, 2021
*162 billion views: August 8, 2021
*163 billion views: August 30, 2021
*164 billion views: September 1, 2021
*165 billion views: September 14, 2021
*166 billion views: September 27, 2021
*167 billion views: October 9, 2021
*168 billion views: October 22, 2021
*169 billion views: November 2, 2021
*170 billion views: November 9, 2021
*171 billion views: November 18, 2021
*172 billion views: November 28, 2021
*173 billion views: December 7, 2021
*174 billion views: December 15, 2021
*175 billion views: December 24, 2021
*176 billion views: January 1, 2022
*177 billion views: January 10, 2022
*178 billion views: January 18, 2022
*179 billion views: January 26, 2022
*180 billion views: February 4, 2022
*181 billion views: February 11, 2022
*182 billion views: February 19, 2022
*183 billion views: February 27, 2022
*184 billion views: March 8, 2022
*185 billion views: March 17, 2022
*186 billion views: March 26, 2022
*187 billion views: April 5, 2022
*188 billion views: April 18, 2022
*189 billion views: April 29, 2022
*190 billion views: May 9, 2022
*191 billion views: May 18, 2022
*192 billion views: May 29, 2022
*193 billion views: June 8, 2022
*194 billion views: June 20, 2022
*195 billion views: June 30, 2022
*196 billion views: July 11, 2022
*197 billion views: July 22, 2022
*198 billion views: August 3, 2022
*199 billion views: August 16, 2022
*200 billion views: August 27, 2022
*201 billion views: September 9, 2022
*202 billion views: September 19, 2022
*203 billion views: September 29, 2022
*204 billion views: October 9, 2022
*205 billion views: October 21, 2022
*206 billion views: November 2, 2022
*207 billion views: November 14, 2022
*208 billion views: November 26, 2022
*209 billion views: December 6, 2022
*210 billion views: December 18, 2022
*211 billion views: December 29, 2022
*212 billion views: January 9, 2023
*213 billion views: January 19, 2023
*214 billion views: January 28, 2023
*215 billion views: February 8, 2023
*216 billion views: February 17, 2023
*217 billion views: February 27, 2023
*218 billion views: March 10, 2023
*219 billion views: March 21, 2023
*220 billion views: April 4, 2023
*221 billion views: April 17, 2023
*222 billion views: April 30, 2023
*223 billion views: May 13, 2023
*224 billion views: May 24, 2023
*225 billion views: June 5, 2023
*226 billion views: June 17, 2023
*227 billion views: June 29, 2023
*228 billion views: July 12, 2023
*229 billion views: July 24, 2023
*230 billion views: August 8, 2023
*231 billion views: August 21, 2023
*232 billion views: September 4, 2023
*233 billion views: September 16, 2023
*234 billion views: September 28, 2023
*235 billion views: October 10, 2023
*236 billion views: October 22, 2023
*237 billion views: November 4, 2023
*238 billion views: November 16, 2023
*239 billion views: November 26, 2023
*240 billion views: December 7, 2023
*241 billion views: December 16, 2023
*242 billion views: December 25, 2023
*243 billion views: January 5, 2024
*244-245 billion views: January 30, 2024
*246 billion views: February 5, 2024
*247 billion views: February 17, 2024
*248 billion views: February 26, 2024
*249 billion views: March 9, 2024
*250 billion views: March 20, 2024
*251 billion views: March 31, 2024
*252 billion views: April 14, 2024
*253 billion views: April 24, 2024
*254 billion views: May 4, 2024
*255 billion views: May 14, 2024
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