Entertainment & Culture2006–2025
Most-Subscribed YouTube Channels
YouTube’s subscriber race starts with individuals and ends with media companies, music labels and kid-video empires. The site’s most famous overtake, T-Series passing PewDiePie, is the moment YouTube stops feeling like one culture.
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Source: YouTube public subscriber counts and Social Blade archives Year-end subscriber counts are reconstructed from public milestones and archive snapshots. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-03
The race in numbers
5lead changes
19years covered
13contenders
PewDiePielongest reign — 6 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2025
- 1MrBeast410M
- 2T-Series300M
- 3Cocomelon192M
- 4SET India188M
- 5Kids Diana Show132M