Most-viewed YouTube Channels

A video view is when someone clicks and views a YouTube video for a certain length of time. This is based off of YouTube's current algorithm, where a "view" on a video is based on retention time. Prior to 2012, the YouTube algorithm was based on a view bases, where even clicking on a video for even as short as a second counted as a view for that video. However, in 2012, YouTube's algorithm shifted to where views were based on retention time and watch minutes. Since this algorithm shift, several YouTube channels have gained millions to even tens of billions of views.
==Top 20 Most-viewed YouTube Channels.==
The Top 20 Most-viewed Channels are listed in the table below as of June 10, 2024, with their views being displayed by the nearest one hundred million, the highest rank the channel was on the most-viewed list along with the time period it occurred and the number of videos the channel has uploaded.
Rank	Highest Rank 	Channel Name 	Views	Videos	Language
1 	1 (2017-present) 	T-Series 	257B 	21.1K 	Hindi
2 	2 (2019-present) 	Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes	182B 	1.1K 	English
3 	2 (2019) 	SET India 	164B 	139K 	Hindi
4 	4 (2021-present) 	Sony SAB 	115B 	85.8K 	Hindi
5 	5 (2021-present) 	✿ Kids Diana Show 	103B 	1.2K 	English
6 	5 (2021-2023) 	Like Nastya 	101B 	885 	English
7 	7 (2024-present) 	Vlad and Niki 	91.0B	723 	English
8 	4 (2019-2021) 	Zee TV 	89.5B	175K 	Hindi
9 	2 (2017-2019) 	WWE 	85.0B	76.6K 	English
10 	10 (2022-present)	Colors TV 	71.0B	152K 	Hindi
11 	11 (2023-present)	Zee Music Company 	66.9B	11.2K 	Hindi
12 	12 (2024-present)	Toys and Colors 	65.8B	1.2K 	English
13 	6 (2020) 	Movieclips 	62.2B	40.6K 	English
14 	3 (2017-2018) 	netd müzik 	61.0B	25.6K 	Turkish
15 	11 (2019-2023) 	El Reino Infantil 	60.4B	1.4K 	Spanish
16 	3 (2018) 	Ryan's World 	57.6B	2.8K 	English
17 	7 (2018-2020) 	ABS-CBN Entertainment 	54.8B	225K 	Filipino
18 	18 (2024-present)	HAR PAL GEO 	53.7B	133K 	Urdu
19 	19 (2024-present)	MrBeast 	51.6B	801 	EnglishDubbing in Arabic, Bangla, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
20 	20 (2024-present)	ARY Digital HD 	51.1B	139K 	Punjabi
==Channels by video views (beyond top 20)==
The following is a chart featuring a list of the 230 most-viewed YouTube channels past the top 20, including VEVO channels (updated June 10, 2024). This list will not include any terminated or deleted channels, nor channels with their view count hidden. It will also not include most VEVO channels, as their total views transferred from the VEVO channel to the artist's official channel.
Rank	Channel Name 	Views (Billions)
21 	ChuChu TV 	51.071
22 	Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs 	50.840
23 	Pinkfong 	43.810
24 	StarPlus 	43.284
25 	LankyBox 	43.168
26 	Wave Music 	42.775
27 	YRF 	41.158
28 	Little Baby Bum 	40.511
29 	Vijay Television 	40.446
30 	Maшa и Meдвeдь 	40.383
31 	KL BRO Biju Rithvik 	39.527
32 	김프로KIMPRO 	39.418
33 	Alan Chikin Chow 	39.404
34 	Tips Official 	38.887
35 	D Billions 	38.819
36 	WorkpointOfficial 	38.466
37 	Canal KondZilla 	38.299
38 	Tsuriki Show 	38.018
39 	LeoNata Family 	37.703
40 	Infobells - Hindi 	36.159
41 	BLACKPINK 	36.021
42 	Taylor Swift 	35.440
43 	Bad Bunny 	35.010
44 	LooLoo Kids 	34.452
45 	HYBE LABELS 	34.305
46 	T-Series Bhakti Sagar 	34.070
47 	HUM TV 	33.203
48 	Get Movies 	32.961
49 	Sony PAL 	32.786
50 	Ed Sheeran 	32.437
51 	Galinha Pintadinha 	32.404
52 	Justin Bieber 	32.308
53 	DisneyMusicVEVO 	32.006
54 	Sony Music India 	31.962
55 	Aaj Tak 	31.916
56 	La Granja de Zenón 	31.154
57 	SonyMusicIndiaVEVO 	30.952
58 	Genevieve's Playhouse 	30.713
59 	Shakira 	30.347
60 	Alfredo Larin 	30.151
61 	EminemMusic 	30.036
62 	Aditya Music 	29.864
63 	ViralHog 	29.525
64 	SMTOWN 	29.475
65 	Shemaroo Filmi Gaane 	29.320
66 	PewDiePie 	29.311
67 	Goldmines 	29.069
68 	Sun TV 	29.005
69 	toyoraljanahtv 	28.961
70 	Speed Records 	28.911
71 	A4 	28.762
72 	BabyBus 	28.728
73 	BETER BÖCÜK 	28.454
74 	Masha and The Bear 	28.352
75 	ช่อง one31 	28.320
76 	dednahype 	28.251
77 	GR6 EXPLODE 	28.148
78 	Anaya Kandhal 	27.766
79 	Shorts Break 	27.703
80 	Maria Clara & JP 	27.662
81 	shfa2 - شفا 	27.648
82 	ISSEI / いっせい 	27.504
83 	The Weeknd 	27.429
84 	Marta and Rustam 	27.414
85 	5-Minute Crafts 	27.396
86 	GMA Network 	27.396
87 	MaviGadget 	27.277
88 	GMM GRAMMY OFFICIAL 	27.130
89 	Katy Perry 	26.798
90 	T-Series Bollywood Classics 	26.533
91 	That Little Puff 	26.467
92 	Yoeslan 	26.363
93 	Ariana Grande 	26.209
94 	scottsreality 	26.209
95 	ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING 	26.169
96 	Peppa Pig - Official Channel 	25.929
97 	etvteluguindia 	25.812
98 	SMOL 	25.639
99 	Vlad và Niki 	25.601
100 	Mr DegrEE 	25.530
101 	LUCCAS NETO - LUCCAS TOON 	25.335
102 	1theK (원더케이) 	25.229
103 	Sagawa /さがわ 	25.083
104 	SSSniperWolf 	25.067
105 	shfa 	25.062
106 	Dushyant kukreja 	25.038
107 	Filaretiki 	25.023
108 	Ozuna 	24.955
109 	FGTeeV 	24.937
110 	Shemaroo 	24.562
111 	Daddy Yankee 	24.371
112 	Dylan Anderson 	24.368
113 	Little Angel: Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs	24.351
114 	Rihanna 	24.335
115 	PANDA BOI 	24.301
116 	J Balvin 	24.243
117 	Maroon 5 	24.103
118 	Inside Edition 	24.004
119 	Nick Jr. 	23.972
120 	Sesame Street 	23.936
121 	G 	23.880
122 	Jason Derulo 	23.680
123 	T-Series Apna Punjab 	23.640
124 	El Payaso Plim Plim 	23.573
125 	TheEllenShow 	23.159
126 	Maluma 	23.147
127 	Chapitosiki 	23.095
128 	BANGTANTV 	22.968
129 	Dangal TV Channel 	22.885
130 	Ch3Thailand 	22.826
131 	Voot Kids 	22.809
132 	Koray Zeynep 	22.723
133 	LEGO 	22.636
134 	Bounce Patrol - Kids Songs 	22.568
135 	JYP Entertainment 	22.539
136 	Rotana 	22.454
137 	Aphmau 	22.322
138 	DONA 도나 	22.302
139 	Disney Latinoamérica 	22.235
140 	GRAMMY GOLD OFFICIAL 	22.108
141 	Junya.じゅんや 	21.771
142 	CVS 3D Rhymes & Kids Songs 	21.711
143 	Omar Raja - ESPN 	21.658
144 	PowerKids TV 	21.584
145 	Markiplier 	21.490
146 	Zee News 	21.327
147 	WORLDSTARHIPHOP 	21.056
148 	SportsNation 	21.038
149 	Bruno Mars 	21.028
150 	SonyMusicSouthVEVO 	20.898
151 	ANNA KOVA 	20.880
152 	Younes Zarou 	20.755
153 	Spinnin' Records 	20.743
154 	Justin Flom 	20.624
155 	Priyal Kukreja 	20.563
156 	Like Nastya Show 	20.469
157 	Mazhavil Manorama 	20.190
158 	IndiaTV 	20.178
159 	ZEE5 	20.055
160 	Like Nastya ESP 	19.963
161 	DanTDM 	19.835
162 	Badabun 	19.752
163 	infobells - Tamil 	19.730
164 	Marília Mendonça 	19.717
165 	Saregama Music 	19.592
166 	Spider Slack 	19.528
167 	David Guetta 	19.489
168 	Saito 	19.355
169 	Ishtar Music 	19.315
170 	Romeo Santos 	19.282
171 	And TV 	19.209
172 	व्लाद और निकिता 	19.189
173 	Neetu Bisht 	19.185
174 	WowKidz 	19.113
175 	Coldplay 	19.063
176 	Enrique Iglesias 	19.059
177 	The geeta gurjar 	19.014
178 	Topper Guild 	18.990
179 	Disney Junior 	18.983
180 	Goldmines Gaane Sune Ansune 	18.958
181 	Beyoncé 	18.949
182 	Dan Rhodes 	18.794
183 	Tarang TV 	18.730
184 	ImagineDragons 	18.710
185 	mujjuu___14 	18.686
186 	Asianet 	18.682
187 	Behindwoods TV 	18.596
188 	Mikecrack 	18.544
189 	toyorbabytv 	18.521
190 	Mundo Bita 	18.413
191 	_vector_ 	18.287
192 	XO TEAM 	18.270
193 	Fischer's-フィッシャーズ- 	18.267
194 	ZutiGang 	18.259
195 	mmoshaya 	18.208
196 	Hasan Tarhan 	18.135
197 	Worldwide Records Bhojpuri 	18.125
198 	BuzzFeedVideo 	18.027
199 	Come Play With Me 	18.025
200 	shfa show India 	17.991
201 	7clouds 	17.899
202 	Drake 	17.891
203 	Ishaan Ali 11 	17.869
204 	Eros Now Music 	17.733
205 	Apu Alone 	17.693
206 	Felipe Neto 	17.678
207 	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 	17.639
208 	IGN 	17.608
209 	Sony AATH 	17.607
210 	Ultra Records 	17.605
211 	MoniLina 	17.586
212 	MBCentertainment 	17.570
213 	Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah 	17.552
214 	toycantando 	17.522
215 	Real fools shorts official 	17.476
216 	Celine Dept 	17.466
217 	Linh Nhi Shorts 	17.464
218 	Dude Perfect 	17.429
219 	Anuel AA 	17.372
220 	Tlnovelas 	17.339
221 	House of Highlights 	17.326
222 	Lady Gaga 	17.265
223 	Infobells - Telugu 	17.227
224 	Chris Brown 	17.202
225 	ABP NEWS 	17.173
226 	NichLmao 	17.092
227 	Kritika Channel 	17.072
228 	Daniel LaBelle 	17.031
229 	Sierra & Rhia FAM 	17.018
230 	승비니 Seungbini 	17.016
231 	Jkk Entertainment 	16.935
232 	Calvin Harris 	16.913
233 	Diary of 4 	16.892
234 	Fox News 	16.883
235 	Alejo Igoa 	16.875
236 	WatchMojo.com 	16.858
237 	Zhong 	16.850
238 	jacksepticeye 	16.775
239 	The McCartys 	16.747
240 	NickyJamTV 	16.745
241 	THAIRATH TV Originals 	16.727
242 	Henrique e Juliano 	16.656
243 	DaFuq!?Boom! 	16.646
244 	Rajshri 	16.579
245 	Masha y el Oso 	16.522
246 	MCG Playhouse 	16.490
247 	Gulshan Kalra 	16.445
248 	GH'S 	16.420
249 	Jojo Sim 	16.415
250 	Su Hao 	16.347
==Most-viewed Channel History Timeline==
Note: emimusic's channel stats were inaccessible from March 2011 to March 2014. Therefore, the date on which it became the most-viewed channel is estimated.
Note II: Due to this, RihannaVEVO was recognized by YouTube historians and viewers as the most-viewed YouTube channel from March to July 2014. PewDiePie surpassed her Vevo channel on July 19 that year and was considered by most to have the most-viewed channel on YouTube, but actually didn't until he surpassed emimusic's channel later that year.
Note III: From 2010-2011, VEVO was listed on the official YouTube charts page as #1 (at one point being listed as having over 100 billion views), but this combined the views from all the VEVO channels. Also in 2010, UMG disappeared from the YT charts page (in a similar fashion to emimusic), however, the channel still had the most views.
Channel 	Channel Type 	Date Achieved 	Days Held
jawed 	Viral Videos 	April 23, 2005 	N/A
larfus 	Viral Videos 	Mid-Late 2005 	N/A
smosh 	Sketch Comedy 	Early 2006 	N/A
judsonlaipply 	Viral Videos 	July 12, 2006 	18
smosh 	Sketch Comedy 	July 30, 2006 	115
cbs 	Television & Film	November 22, 2006	236
universalmusicgroup	Music 	July 16, 2007 	2042
machinima 	Gaming 	February 16, 2013	20
emimusic 	Music 	March 8, 2013 	661
PewDiePie 	Entertainment 	December 29, 2014	778
T-Series 	Music & Film 	February 14, 2017	2557+
==Other Most-viewed Charts==
===Most-viewed YouTubers===
This chart as of February 15, 2023, does not include companies, major celebrities/music channels, and "Made for Kids" channels.
Rank	Channel 	Views (b)	Videos	Language
1 	MrBeast 	43.095 	776 	English
2 	LankyBox 	40.387 	10.7K 	English
3 	Tsuriki Show 	35.928 	3.6K 	English
4 	LeoNata Family 	34.994 	2.9K 	English
5 	Alan Chikin Chow 	34.253 	1.1K 	English
6 	김프로KIMPRO 	32.870 	2.6K 	Korean
7 	KL BRO Biju Rithvik 	31.337 	2.3K 	Malayalam
8 	PewDiePie 	29.231 	4.7K 	English
9 	dednahype 	26.662 	2.6K 	English
10 	A4 	26.602 	867 	Russian
11 	BETER BÖCÜK 	26.473 	3.9K 	Turkish
12 	Marta and Rustam 	25.061 	980 	English
13 	Alfredo Larin 	24.762 	2.0K 	Spanish
14 	FGTeeV 	24.675 	1.7K 	English
15 	SSSniperWolf 	24.615 	3.4K 	English
16 	SMOL 	24.614 	4.7K 	English
17 	CookieSwirlC 	24.555 	3.9K 	English
18 	Yoeslan 	24.452 	857 	English
19 	Shorts Break 	24.283 	558 	Hindi
20 	LUCCAS NETO - LUCCAS TOON	24.119 	2.5K 	Portuguese
===Most-viewed Female YouTubers===
This list is as of February 15, 2024. YouTuber groups that have both males & females are not counted.
Rank	Channel 	Views (b)	Videos	Language
1 	SSSniperWolf 	24.615 	3.4K 	English
2 	CookieSwirlC 	24.555 	3.9K 	English
3 	DONA 도나 	21.920 	170 	English
4 	Aphmau 	20.794 	4.7K 	English
5 	Chapitosiki 	19.077 	3.4K 	Russian
6 	ANNA KOVA 	18.717 	3.5K 	English
7 	Priyal Kukreja 	16.866 	965 	Hindi
8 	Neetu Bisht 	15.433 	1.8K 	Hindi
9 	Linh Nhi Shorts 	15.004 	2.5K 	English
10 	LittleGlove 	14.322 	1.9K 	Hindi
11 	ItsFunneh 	13.516 	2.7K 	English
12 	Celine Dept 	12.850 	548 	English
13 	The geeta gurjar	12.068 	1.2K 	Hindi
14 	Diana Belitskay 	11.919 	2.7K 	English
15 	TheMermaidscales	11.650 	2.8K 	English
16 	Ornella Zocco 	10.937 	6.8K 	Italian
17 	Klara Tania 	10.195 	2.0K 	Indonesian
18 	jaanvi patel 	9.988 	598 	Hindi
19 	zbing z. 	9.909 	3.4K 	Thai
20 	Pink Shirt Girl 	9.879 	1.0K 	English
==Details About Most-viewed Channels Timeline==
The first recorded most-viewed channel on YouTube was Smosh. In the first half of 2006, Smosh became YouTube's most-subscribed and most-viewed channel, aside from their comedy and music sketches, was mostly due to the success of their "Pokemon Theme Music Video".
However, the channel was surpassed by Judson Laipply's in the middle of the same year as his "Evolution of Dance" propelled him to the top of the most-viewed and most-subscribed channels on YouTube. Similar to Smosh's Pokemon Theme Music Video, it also experienced a reign as YouTube's most-viewed video.
Smosh overtook him afterward as unlike Laipply, was beginning to become more consistent on their YouTube channel but by posting more sketches, mostly comedy. Smosh holds the record as being the most-viewed channel the most amount of times which is two.
However, CBS' high abundance of videos at a consistent rate on their YouTube channel which included television and news from America's most-watched network overtook Smosh in the early part of the next year and became the first channel to reach 100 million views. Arvil Lavinge's "Girlfriend" became the first video to reach that number in August the same year, making the last milestone where a YouTube video hit the same view count than a YouTube channel as a whole did in the same year.
Vevo since then, specifically since 2012, has had their "VEVO certified award", awarded to Vevo artists who has videos which exceed 100 million views.
CBS' reign and its glory of historically proclaiming the title of being the first channel to reach 100 million views was short-lived, however. Universal Music Group surpassed the channel around the same time the first YouTube video reached 100 million views.
The channel had gained popularity on YouTube in just it's the first year of existence by posting some of the top music videos at the time, even peaking as YouTube's second most subscribed channel by the end of that year, a feat and achievement no other music channel would reach on YouTube until JustinBieberVEVO did so on December 2, 2017.
For nearly six years, Universal Music Group held the top title which is the longest reign a channel has ever been the most-viewed. During its reign, it was the first channel to reach one to six billion views but due to a view purge of the channel shortly after Valentine's day 2013, Machinima took the title who at the time had recently hit 4 billion total video views on YouTube.
Becoming the first gaming channel to reach the milestone, Machinima still managed to lose the most-viewed channel title to emimusic less than a month later as though gaming had an increasing presence on YouTube and online culture in general, music was and still is more of a global phenomenon.
Since UMG's view purge happened, no channel had reached its peak until emimusic surpassed UMG in most views ever on YouTube which was close to 7 billion, the only billion milestones they gained during their reign, doing so on November 25, 2014.
The gears shifted then again however as PewDiePie, the first channel to become the most-viewed during it's most-subscribed reign since Smosh's first reign, the first and only post-2006 channel to become the most-viewed and the third non-company channel to have the most-viewed channel on YouTube behind Judson Laipply and Smosh, surpassed emimusic towards the end of 2014 at around 7.2 billion views to have the most-viewed YouTube channel of all time. By then, PewDiePie was already YouTube's biggest star, has 11 million more than the second most-subscribed channel.
PewDiePie, whose channel was the first country other than America to become YouTube's most-viewed channel became the first channel to reach eight to fourteen billion video views, surpassing UMG's record as getting the most views as the most-viewed channel, until T-Series surpassed him on YouTube's 12th anniversary, Valentine's Day of 2017, when both were near 15 billion views, becoming the first Hindi and non-English speaking YouTube channel to become the most-viewed.
So far, T-Series' views have grown more than six times bigger since becoming the most-viewed channel, surpassing PewDiePie as gaining the most views as the most-viewed channel and UMG as having the most view gap to any other channel, which is over 46 billion as of December 26, 2019.
T-Series has since become the fastest growing YouTube channel in views as of August 2020, currently averaging around 135 million views per day.
===Where Most-viewed YouTube Channels Are Today===
*Smosh now sits as the 154th most-viewed channel of all time after flip-flopping in and out of the top ten most-viewed YouTube channels from 2006 to 2014. In 2015, it got out of the top twenty after being surpassed by TheEllenShow for the twentieth spot.
*CBS hit 1 billion views on YouTube in late 2017 although hundreds of channels have before it.
*Universal Music Group has tens of thousands of channels with more views than them since it's video and view purge.
*Machinima has over five billion views but is far from as watched or subscribed to as it was before.
*emimusic became the second music and second overall channel that has been the most-viewed to have a view purge, doing so in November 2016. Peaking at over eight billion views, the channel's views dropped under three billion, now having slightly over 3 billion.
*PewDiePie has dropped down to the 19th most-viewed channel. His channel's view growth has dropped down significantly since mid 2019 and many other channels seem to have gotten a better view gain than him, but he still remains in one of the fastest-growing channels in views, even surpassing JustinBieberVEVO in views at around 16.752 billion views in early New Years Day of 2018 after his monthly view gain increased some.
*Due to T-Series becoming the fastest growing YouTube channel in views, it has become one of the fastest-growing in subscribers of all time as well.
== External links ==
* Top 400 channels with the highest view count
== See also==
*List of most-viewed YouTube videos
*Most-subscribed YouTube Channels Of All Time
*Subscription
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