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. 

Channels By Video Views

The following is a chart featuring a list of the 250 most viewed YouTube channels, including VEVO channels (Updated January 11, 2019). This list will not include any terminated or deleted channels, nor channels with their view count hidden.

Rank	Channel	View Count
1	T-Series	59.357 billion
2	WWE	29.489 billion
3	SET India	27.681 billion
4	Ryan ToysReview	26.869 billion
5	netd müzik	26.838 billion
6	Canal KondZilla	22.517 billion
7	ABS-CBN Entertainment	20.723 billion
8	PewDiePie	20.118 billion
9	Movieclips	20.042 billion
10	Get Movies	18.491 billion
11	El Reino Infantil	18.285 billion
12	JustinBieberVEVO	18.284 billion
13	Little Baby Bum	18.194 billion
14	Маша и Медведь	17.711 billion
15	Cocomelon	17.008 billion
16	KatyPerryVEVO	16.767 billion
17	WorkpointOfficial	16.428 billion
18	ChuChu TV Kids Songs	16.325 billion
19	TaylorSwiftVEVO	16.033 billion
20	Zee TV	15.900 billion
21	Ed Sheeran	15.687 billion
22	shakiraVEVO	15.347 billion
23	BuzzFeedVideo	14.629 billion
24	TheEllenShow	14.606 billion
25	FunToyzCollector	14.455 billion
26	GMM GRAMMY OFFICIAL	14.449 billion
27	DanTDM	14.145 billion
28	Spinnin' Records	14.028 billion
29	Zee Music Company	14.014 billion
30	RihannaVEVO	13.522 billion
31	Wave Music	13.518 billion
32	WORLDSTARHIPHOP	13.036 billion
33	ToyPudding TV	13.008 billion
34	SMTOWN	12.952 billion
35	SAB TV	12.593 billion
36	PopularMMOs	12.443 billion
37	EminemVEVO	12.382 billion
38	1theK	11.886 billion
39	Super Simple Songs	11.851 billion
40	WatchMojo.com	11.792 billion
41	Maroon5VEVO	11.735 billion
42	EnriqueIglesiasVEVO	11.714 billion
43	5-Minute Crafts	11.567 billion
44	Baby Big Mouth	11.107 billion
45	jbalvinVEVO	11.037 billion
46	Family Fun Pack	11.006 billion
47	Ch3Thailand	10.992 billion
48	NickyJamTV	10.916 billion
49	CVS 3D Rhymes	10.797 billion
50	David Guetta	10.707 billion
51	MalumaVEVO	10.637 billion
52	Ozuna	10.564 billion
53	Markiplier	10.549 billion
54	Galinha Pintadinha	10.546 billion
55	Fueled By Ramen	10.514 billion
56	jacksepticeye	10.501 billion
57	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	10.451 billion
58	VanossGaming	10.382 billion
59	ArianaGrandeVevo	10.376 billion
60	CookieSwirlC	10.317 billion
61	Colors TV	10.254 billion
62	Movieclips Trailers	10.184 billion
63	Bruno Mars	10.151 billion
64	CalvinHarrisVEVO	10.111 billion
65	LuisFonsiVEVO	9.982 billion
66	VEGETTA777	9.889 billion
67	Ultra Music	9.831 billion
68	Speed Records	9.704 billion
69	Eros Now	9.638 billion
70	As/Is	9.622 billion
71	FGTeeV	9.595 billion
72	GR6 EXPLODE	9.465 billion
73	toyoraljanahtv	9.320 billion
74	CKN Toys	9.214 billion
75	one31	9.208 billion
76	BeyoncéVEVO	9.205 billion
77	YRF	9.016 billion
78	GMA Network	8.979 billion
79	Badabun	8.751 billion
80	LEGO	8.727 billion
81	Blu Toys Club Surprise	8.711 billion
82	Shemaroo Filmi Gaane	8.691 billion
83	Sony Music India	8.672 billion
84	Trap Nation	8.532 billion
85	JuegaGerman	8.526 billion
86	IGN	8.516 billion
87	OneDirectionVEVO	8.511 billion
88	Coldplay	8.467 billion
89	Wiz Khalifa	8.402 billion
90	Atlantic Records	8.276 billion
91	Genierock	8.176 billion
92	DisneyChannelLA	8.062 billion
93	ChainsmokersVEVO	8.052 billion
94	Smosh	8.017 billion
95	GRAMMY GOLD OFFICIAL	8.007 billion
96	RsiamMusic	7.850 billion
97	SonyMusicIndiaVEVO	7.818 billion
98	AdeleVEVO	7.792 billion
99	ChrisBrownVEVO	7.634 billion
100	Ultra Bollywood	7.603 billion
101	PitbullVEVO	7.589 billion
102	rezendeevil	7.487 billion
103	FBE	7.457 billion
104	RomeoSantosVEVO	7.427 billion
105	Turma da Mônica	7.424 billion
106	DisneyMusicVEVO	7.411 billion
107	SiaVEVO	7.234 billion
108	elrubiusOMG	7.230 billion
109	TheWeekndVEVO	7.228 billion
110	Лунтик	7.070 billion
111	officialpsy	7.060 billion
112	Pinkfong!	7.037 billion
113	DisneyCarToys	7.031 billion
114	Britain's Got Talent	7.010 billion
115	Dude Perfect	6.975 billion
116	Jimmy Kimmel Live	6.916 billion
117	stampylonghead	6.896 billion
118	SelenaGomezVEVO	6.885 billion
119	BillionSurpriseToys	6.841 billion
120	T-Series Apna Punjab	6.786 billion
121	CollegeHumor	6.757 billion
122	avex	6.668 billion
123	Fernanfloo	6.666 billion
124	Linkin Park	6.630 billion
125	Mister Max	6.622 billion
126	enchufetv	6.580 billion
127	AuthenticGames	6.443 billion
128	Rotana	6.422 billion
129	Miss Katy	6.411 billion
130	Marília Mendonça	6.352 billion
131	Daddy Yankee	6.350 billion
132	Kids Line	6.275 billion
133	Inside Edition	6.257 billion
134	POPS MUSIC	6.206 billion
135	Major Lazer	6.194 billion
136	LadyGagaVEVO	6.173 billion
137	Fischer's	6.172 billion
138	michaeljacksonVEVO	6.159 billion
139	Mother Goose Club	6.150 billion
140	ImagineDragonsVEVO	6.144 billion
141	NickiMinajAtVEVO	6.143 billion
142	Tips Official	6.140 billion
143	TheRichest	6.061 billion
144	musicalrmastv	6.037 billion
145	Shemaroo	6.036 billion
146	HobbyKidsTV	6.024 billion
147	KBS World TV	5.965 billion
148	Kids TV	5.960 billion
149	JenniferLopezVEVO	5.960 billion
150	T-Series Bhakti Sagar	5.956 billion
151	Mejores Juguetes	5.934 billion
152	Totoykids	5.924 billion
153	AviciiOfficialVEVO	5.897 billion
154	Sesame Street	5.833 billion
155	hajime	5.818 billion
156	POPS Kids	5.799 billion
157	DisneyJuniorUK	5.793 billion
158	MBCentertainment	5.768 billion
159	La Granja de Zenón	5.768 billion
160	KanalD	5.767 billion
161	Henrique e Juliano	5.753 billion
162	Felipe Neto	5.742 billion
163	Rooster Teeth	5.730 billion
164	Rajshri	5.730 billion
165	SQUEEZIE	5.712 billion
166	The X Factor UK	5.621 billion
167	Annoying Orange	5.599 billion
168	Teremok TV	5.581 billion
169	jypentertainment	5.579 billion
170	ShawnMendesVEVO	5.569 billion
171	Alan Walker	5.562 billion
172	FifthHarmonyVEVO	5.558 billion
173	Saturday Night Live	5.543 billion
174	NoCopyrightSounds	5.530 billion
175	SevenSuperGirls	5.527 billion
176	HikakinTV	5.499 billion
177	MeghanTrainorVEVO	5.498 billion
178	Jason Derulo	5.441 billion
179	Gaane Sune Ansune	5.410 billion
180	Like Nastya Vlog	5.401 billion
181	Infobells - Hindi	5.378 billion
182	LooLoo Kids	5.376 billion
183	Charlie Puth	5.355 billion
184	Kan & Aki's	5.329 billion
185	Jake Paul	5.286 billion
186	TheWillyrex	5.283 billion
187	Cat Music	5.274 billion
188	The Late Late Show with James Corden	5.273 billion
189	DrakeVEVO	5.247 billion
190	Videogyan 3D Rhymes	5.240 billion
191	NBA	5.239 billion
192	BBC	5.234 billion
193	JesseAndMike	5.232 billion
194	Luccas Neto	5.208 billion
195	etveluguindia	5.204 billion
196	Team Coco	5.181 billion
197	MattyBRaps	5.168 billion
198	Guava Juice	5.145 billion
199	Gallina Pintadita	5.131 billion
200	FailArmy	5.093 billion
201	Mnet K-POP	5.070 billion
202	selflearningthai	5.069 billion
203	Good Mythical Morning	5.048 billion
204	BIGBANG	5.009 billion
205	Pina Records	5.007 billion
206	Just4fun290	5.006 billion
207	mmoshaya	4.993 billion
208	eltrece	4.985 billion
209	RomanAtwoodVlogs	4.947 billion
210	toycantando	4.908 billion
211	Kids Diana Show	4.890 billion
212	Skrillex	4.884 billion
213	rsfriends	4.856 billion
214	Mother Goose Club Playhouse	4.838 billion
215	Hear This Music	4.775 billion
216	Барбоскины	4.763 billion
217	Aditya Music	4.761 billion
218	ABC News	4.739 billion
219	Vat19	4.716 billion
220	Kontor.TV	4.706 billion
221	Salih Reis'in Dunyasi	4.678 billion
222	KSI	4.666 billion
223	shane	4.644 billion
224	Just For Laughs Gags	4.632 billion
225	CNCOVEVO	4.614 billion
226	BritneySpearsVEVO	4.609 billion
227	Pocoyo	4.602 billion
228	Antena 3	4.595 billion
229	GameGrumps	4.572 billion
230	Vijay Television	4.562 billion
231	EllieGouldingVEVO	4.559 billion
232	The Young Turks	4.558 billion
233	ThaiCh8	4.544 billion
234	Toys Unlimited	4.496 billion
235	Toy Trains 4u	4.488 billion
236	Barcroft TV	4.487 billion
237	BuzzFeed Multiplayer	4.461 billion
238	Doggy Doggy Cartoons	4.456 billion
239	RickyMartinVEVO	4.454 billion
240	Ch Sen,...	4.451 billion
241	Porta dos Fundos	4.441 billion
242	Clean Bandit	4.439 billion
243	Boyce Avenue	4.432 billion
244	SamSmithWorldVEVO	4.424 billion
245	Zé Neto e Christiano	4.422 billion
246	BeckyGVEVO	4.391 billion
247	Come Play With Me	4.390 billion
248	MrSuicideSheep	4.371 billion
249	fixiki	4.367 billion
250	ibighit	4.343 billion

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 similar fashion to emimusic), however, the channel still had the most views.

Channel	Channel Type	Channel's Country	Date Achieved
Smosh	Sketch Comedy	United States	Early 2006
Judson Laipply	Vlog	United States	Around July 12, 2006
Smosh	Sketch Comedy	United States	Around July 30, 2006
CBS	Television And Film	United States	Around November 22, 2006
Universal Music Group	Music	United States	Around July 16, 2007
Machinima	Gaming	United States	February 16, 2013
emimusic	Music	United States	Around March 8, 2013
PewDiePie	Entertainment	Sweden	December 29, 2014
T-Series	Music And Film	India	February 14, 2017

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 afterwards as unlike Laipply, was begining 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, specifially since 2012, has had their "VEVO certified award", awarded to Vevo artists who has videos which exceeds 100 million views.

CBS' reign and it's 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 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 it's 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 it's peak until emimusic surpassed UMG in most views ever on YouTube which was close to 7 billion, the only billion milestone 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, having 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 has more than doubled 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 was over 5 billion achieved in the middle of it's reign, in August 2017.

T-Series has since become the fastest growing YouTube channel in views, even holding the record for the YouTube channel to gain the most views in a day, which was 90,908,347 views gained on March 1, 2018.

Where Most Viewed YouTube Channels Are Today

• Smosh now sits as the 70th 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 slighly over 3 billion.

• PewDiePie has dropped down to the sixth most viewed channel. His channel's view growth has dropped down signifcantly since mid 2017 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.

See also

• Most Viewed Channels On YouTube
• Most Viewed YouTube Videos Of All Time
• Most Subscribed YouTube Channels of all Time
• Subscription