The full ranking
Hundreds of millions of subscribers, and a top spot that took an American stunt creator to wrest it from a Bollywood label. Ranked by subscriber count, these are the channels with the largest standing audiences on the platform, automatically generated channels like Music and News excluded.
MrBeast
Jimmy Donaldson's flagship channel, built on ever-larger stunts and giveaways, became the first solo creator to overtake T-Series and now sits near 480 million subscribers, gaining roughly 130,000 a day.
T-Series
The Mumbai music label uploads a relentless stream of Bollywood songs and trailers; it held the top spot for years before MrBeast passed it and remains the most-subscribed music channel at about 311 million.
Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes
The 3D nursery-rhyme juggernaut owned by Moonbug is the most-subscribed children's channel and the only education channel past 200 million, its singalong videos endlessly replayed by toddlers worldwide.
SET India
Sony Entertainment Television's Hindi channel posts daily clips from its soaps and reality shows, a high-volume strategy that keeps it near 189 million subscribers, second only to T-Series among Indian channels.
Vlad and Niki
Brothers Vlad and Nikita star in slickly produced, multilingual kids' play videos that have made their family channel one of the platform's fastest growers, now around 149 million.
Stokes Twins
Identical twins Alan and Alex Stokes built a huge following on short, high-concept comedy and challenge videos, riding the Shorts era to roughly 139 million subscribers.
Kids Diana Show
Ukrainian child star Diana and her brother Roma headline one of YouTube's biggest pretend-play channels, dubbed into many languages and watched by preschoolers everywhere, near 138 million.
Like Nastya
Anastasia Radzinskaya, born in Russia and raised in the US, turned toddler-friendly adventures and songs into a global brand worth roughly 132 million subscribers on her main channel.
Kimpro (김프로)
A South Korean channel whose short, broadly appealing videos vaulted it into the global top ten, a recent newcomer sitting at about 131 million subscribers.
Zee Music Company
The music arm of India's Zee network pumps out film soundtracks and singles, a catalog-driven channel that has climbed to roughly 122 million subscribers.
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