List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, with 332 million subscribers as of November 2024.

A subscriber to a channel on the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a user who has chosen to receive the channel's content by clicking on that channel's "Subscribe" button, and each user's subscription feed consists of videos published by channels to which the user is subscribed.[1] The ability for users to subscribe was introduced in October 2005.[2] YouTube began publishing a list of its most-subscribed channels in April 2006.[3] An early archive of the list dates to May 17, 2006.[4]

Since May 2006, when Smosh occupied the top position with just 2,986 subscribers,[4] at least 11 other YouTube channels have held the top spot; these include the channel for the American fictional web series lonelygirl15,[5] American comedian Brooke "Brookers" Brodack,[6] American fictional character Fred Figglehorn,[7] Swedish gamer Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg,[8] American comedian Ryan Higa,[9] American media personality Ray William Johnson,[10] American public speaker Judson Laipply,[11] English geriatric Peter Oakley,[12] and the official channels for Indian music record label T-Series, as well as YouTube[A] itself.[13]

The most-subscribed YouTube channel is MrBeast, having 332 million subscribers as of November 23, 2024, and gaining subscribers by an average of about 150,000 per day.[14][15][16]

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  2. ^ "Official YouTube Blog – Tuesday, October 25, 2005". Official YouTube Blog. Google. October 25, 2005. Archived from the original on December 30, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  3. ^ "Lots 'o New Stuff". Official YouTube Blog. Google. Archived from the original on December 30, 2009. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
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  5. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on November 20, 2006. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  6. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on July 3, 2006. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  7. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  8. ^ "Top 100 YouTubers Subscribed/Viewed". www.socialblade.com. Social Blade. Archived from the original on August 22, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  9. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on September 22, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  10. ^ "Top 500 YouTubers Subscribed/Viewed". www.socialblade.com. Social Blade. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  11. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on June 12, 2006. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  12. ^ "Most Subscribed Channels - All Time". www.youtube.com. YouTube. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  13. ^ "Top 500 Subscribed YouTube Channels (Sorted by Subscriber Count)". www.socialblade.com. Social Blade. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  14. ^ "Top 100 Subscribed YouTube Channels (Sorted by Subscriber Count)". www.socialblade.com. Social Blade. Archived from the original on June 2, 2024. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  15. ^ "MrBeast's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile)". www.socialblade.com. Social Blade. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  16. ^ Ashford, Charlie (March 2, 2024). "Communitrics API". Retrieved September 20, 2024.


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