The most subscribed YouTube channels in 2026 start with MrBeast, who shows about 525 million subscribers. The next channel, T-Series, sits about 209 million behind him, and third-placed Cocomelon is more than 300 million behind.
Every number here is the figure each channel’s public page showed on 3 November 2026. YouTube shortens counts above 100 million to three digits, so subscribers are given as round “about” figures, and neighbouring places can swap within days. Each row is a single channel, so the video totals and lifetime views belong to that channel alone.
Top 10 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels With Video Counts, Views and Join Year
| # | Channel | Subscribers | Videos | Lifetime views | Joined | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MrBeast | about 525 million | 1,011 | about 145.6 billion | 2012 | Challenge and stunt videos |
| 2 | T-Series | about 316 million | 27,475 | about 362.1 billion | 2006 | Music label and film studio |
| 3 | Cocomelon | about 203 million | 2,170 | about 229.4 billion | 2006 | Nursery rhymes for toddlers |
| 4 | SET India | about 190 million | 178,266 | about 194.5 billion | 2006 | Hindi TV broadcaster |
| 5 | Vlad and Niki | about 151 million | 1,071 | about 124.1 billion | 2018 | Family and kids entertainment |
| 6 | Stokes Twins | about 149 million | 480 | about 33.7 billion | 2008 | Twin-led challenge videos |
| 7 | Kids Diana Show | about 138 million | 1,760 | about 126.7 billion | 2015 | Family and kids entertainment |
| 8 | Like Nastya | about 133 million | 1,122 | about 123.6 billion | 2016 | Family play and song |
| 9 | Zee Music Company | about 123 million | 17,389 | about 92.7 billion | 2014 | Music label |
| 10 | WWE | about 114 million | 97,674 | about 108.1 billion | 2007 | Wrestling and sports entertainment |
The Most Subscribed YouTube Channels, One by One
1. MrBeast: 209 Million Clear of Second Place
Subscribers: about 525 million · Videos: 1,011 · Lifetime views: about 145.6 billion · Joined: February 2012
MrBeast is the only channel past 500 million, and his count is about 1.66 times T-Series and 2.6 times Cocomelon. He passed T-Series on 2 June 2024, when the two stood near 269 million and 266 million. In the time since, his count has roughly doubled, a gain of about 256 million, while T-Series added about 50 million.
The channel page names the snack company Feastables and the software company Viewstats among his ventures and promises a new video each Saturday at noon Eastern. For a sense of what a view is worth to a creator, our piece on what YouTubers make per view puts numbers on it.
2. T-Series: A Music Label With 362 Billion Views
Subscribers: about 316 million · Videos: 27,475 · Lifetime views: about 362.1 billion · Joined: March 2006
T-Series calls itself India’s largest music label and movie studio, and its view total is the largest of the ten by a wide margin: about 362.1 billion, or roughly 216 billion more than MrBeast has gathered. The library is large too, with 27,475 videos, the third biggest in the group.
It took the most subscribed spot in 2019 by passing PewDiePie and kept it for five years. Even after losing it, the channel kept growing, and it now stands about 113 million subscribers ahead of the third-placed channel.
3. Cocomelon: Nursery Rhymes at 203 Million
Subscribers: about 203 million · Videos: 2,170 · Lifetime views: about 229.4 billion · Joined: September 2006
Cocomelon is the largest children’s channel in this ranking and lists the United States as its country. Its description promises songs that help toddlers and preschoolers through mealtime, bedtime and potty training.
A catalogue of only 2,170 videos has produced about 229.4 billion views, the second-highest total in the ranking. Each subscriber accounts for roughly 1,130 lifetime views.
4. SET India: A TV Broadcaster With 178,266 Uploads
Subscribers: about 190 million · Videos: 178,266 · Lifetime views: about 194.5 billion · Joined: September 2006
SET India is the YouTube arm of Sony Entertainment Television, which launched in October 1995 and calls itself one of India’s leading Hindi general entertainment channels. Its description names The Kapil Sharma Show, Shark Tank India, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indian Idol, CID and Crime Patrol.
No other channel here has uploaded as much. The 178,266 videos are more than half of all the videos posted by the ten channels together, and they have drawn about 194.5 billion views. That is a modest 1.1 million views per upload, but there are a great many uploads.
5. Vlad and Niki: The Newest Channel in the Top Ten
Subscribers: about 151 million · Videos: 1,071 · Lifetime views: about 124.1 billion · Joined: April 2018
No other channel in the top ten started as recently as this one, which joined YouTube in April 2018. Its page says it was created by Sergey and Victoria Vashketov, parents of Vlad and Niki. In under nine years it has reached about 124.1 billion views across 1,071 videos.
The family describes a wider group of 27 channels in 18 languages, with more than 539 million subscribers across all of them. That group claim is separate from the roughly 151 million shown on this one channel, which is the figure ranked here.
6. Stokes Twins: 480 Videos, 149 Million Subscribers
Subscribers: about 149 million · Videos: 480 · Lifetime views: about 33.7 billion · Joined: April 2008
Alan and Alex Stokes run a channel that has uploaded fewer than 500 videos, the smallest library in the ten. Divide the subscribers by the uploads and the result is roughly 310,000 subscribers per video, a ratio that only MrBeast beats.
The April 2008 join date makes this one of the older accounts in the ranking, yet the audience is far newer than the account. Its 33.7 billion lifetime views are the lowest total in the group, and it trails Vlad and Niki by only about 2 million subscribers.
7. Kids Diana Show: Siblings Reaching Viewers in 20 Languages
Subscribers: about 138 million · Videos: 1,760 · Lifetime views: about 126.7 billion · Joined: May 2015
The show stars Diana and Roma and went onto YouTube in 2015. Its description says the programme is translated into 20 languages and spread across 20 channels, and the United States is the country on the page.
The 1,760 videos on this channel have about 126.7 billion views, a bigger total than Vlad and Niki despite fewer subscribers. At roughly 78,000 subscribers per video it has the lowest such ratio of the four children’s channels.
8. Like Nastya: Family Play and Song
Subscribers: about 133 million · Videos: 1,122 · Lifetime views: about 123.6 billion · Joined: December 2016
Nastya and her parents play, learn and sing together on screen, and the page carries a Like Nastya, LLC copyright notice. Since joining in December 2016 it has posted 1,122 videos and collected about 123.6 billion views.
Searching for it takes care. The correct handle is @LikeNastyaofficial, and a separate channel called Like Nastya Show has about 44 million subscribers. Only the first appears in this ranking.
9. Zee Music Company: 17,389 Videos From an Indian Media Group
Subscribers: about 123 million · Videos: 17,389 · Lifetime views: about 92.7 billion · Joined: March 2014
Zee Music Company belongs to one of India’s leading TV media and entertainment companies, and India is the country on its page. Since March 2014 it has published 17,389 videos, which have gathered about 92.7 billion views.
It is the second music label in the ten, behind T-Series, and the lifetime views per subscriber, about 750, are the lowest among the labels and broadcasters. It leads WWE by roughly 9 million subscribers.
10. WWE: Wrestling’s Only Place in the Top Ten
Subscribers: about 114 million · Videos: 97,674 · Lifetime views: about 108.1 billion · Joined: May 2007
WWE calls its channel the official YouTube home for original shows and exclusives, with Where to Watch links for Netflix, ESPN and Peacock. It is the only sports brand in the group, and the only one of the ten whose page shows no country. If you follow wrestling beyond YouTube, our guide to the best sports streaming services covers the paid options.
With 97,674 uploads it has the second-largest library here, after SET India. Tenth place is held by about 3 million subscribers over Goldmines, so the position is far from secure.
Three Libraries Hold 92 Percent of the Videos
Add up the ten video counts and the total is 328,418. SET India (178,266), WWE (97,674) and T-Series (27,475) account for 303,415 of those, about 92 percent. The other seven channels together have posted about 25,000 videos.
Those three are an Indian broadcaster, a wrestling company and an Indian music label, and all three feed the channel with a steady stream of clips and full episodes. The creator-led and children’s channels work the other way: they post a few hundred to a couple of thousand videos and lean on a small number of very widely watched ones.
Subscribers per video make the contrast plain. MrBeast has roughly 519,000 subscribers for each video, Stokes Twins about 310,000, and Vlad and Niki about 141,000. SET India has about 1,100 and WWE about 1,200.
Lifetime Views per Subscriber Show Which Audiences Keep Watching
Divide each channel’s lifetime views by its subscribers and the order changes completely. T-Series comes out at about 1,150 views per subscriber, Cocomelon about 1,130 and SET India about 1,020. WWE, Like Nastya and Kids Diana Show sit between 910 and 950, and Vlad and Niki and Zee Music Company between 750 and 820.
MrBeast and Stokes Twins are far below, at about 280 and 230. Their subscriber counts are large compared with the viewing history behind them, which is the pattern of a count that climbed quickly. The ratio measures that gap and does not by itself say why it exists.
Added together, the ten counts come to about 2.04 billion subscriptions, with MrBeast holding about 26 percent of them. That is not a headcount, because one viewer can subscribe to several of these channels.
The Ladder of Gaps From First Place to Fifteenth
The distance between places is uneven. First to second is about 209 million, second to third about 113 million, then third to fourth only about 13 million. After SET India the next drop is about 39 million, and from fifth to tenth the steps are about 2, 11, 5, 10 and 9 million.
Five channels sit just outside the ten and all show more than 100 million: Goldmines at about 111 million, PewDiePie at 109 million, Sony SAB at 106 million, Alan’s Universe at 103 million and BLACKPINK at 102 million. The sixteenth, Zee TV, shows 99.4 million.
PewDiePie, who held the top spot until T-Series passed him in 2019, now ranks twelfth. Alan’s Universe was created in February 2020, the newest creation date of the fifteen. The four children’s channels in the ten add up to about 625 million, close to the three Indian entries’ roughly 629 million.
Why These Numbers Are Approximate and What They Cover
Each figure comes from the channel’s own public page on 3 November 2026: subscribers, video count, lifetime views, join date and listed country. Above 100 million YouTube updates the public count only for each additional million, and it cuts the number off instead of rounding up, so a channel with 123,456,789 subscribers is shown as 123 million.
YouTube also removes closed accounts and subscribers gained through artificial means, so a count can fall as well as rise. Labels such as music label or family entertainment are plain descriptions drawn from each channel’s text, because the page has no category field. Channels run by one network are measured one at a time, and YouTube’s auto-generated topic channels are not ranked.
How to Quote a Subscriber Count Without Getting It Wrong
- Date every figure. “About 525 million on 3 November 2026” stays true after the count moves.
- Treat places within a few million of each other as a tie. Vlad and Niki and Stokes Twins are about 2 million apart, and Goldmines trails WWE by about 3 million.
- Confirm the handle before pasting a number. Goldmines at about 111 million is a different channel from Goldmines Bollywood at about 38 million.
- Use views per video or per subscriber, not lifetime views alone, when comparing a channel with 480 videos to one with 178,266.
Frequently Asked Questions
How far ahead of the pack is MrBeast?
About 209 million subscribers ahead of T-Series, whose count is about 316 million. He also holds about 2.6 times the audience of Cocomelon at about 203 million, so the gap at the top is the widest in the ranking.
Which of the top ten channels has uploaded the most videos?
SET India, with 178,266 videos and about 194.5 billion views. WWE follows with 97,674 and T-Series with 27,475, while Stokes Twins has only 480 and still sits in sixth place with about 149 million subscribers.
How many of the top ten channels are based in India?
Three: T-Series, SET India and Zee Music Company, with about 316, 190 and 123 million subscribers. Six are based in the United States, and WWE shows no country. Zee TV, in sixteenth place with 99.4 million, is also Indian.
Can a channel lose subscribers?
Yes. YouTube takes closed accounts and spam subscribers out of totals, so a count can drop even when a channel is growing. Above 100 million the public figure moves only in steps of 1 million, so small losses may not show at all.
