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The YouTube landscape has undergone massive change in 2024, with record-breaking subscriber counts being achieved with the year just halfway through. The video-hosting platform has been a constant source of information regarding ongoing events across the globe and serves as an entertainment hub, hosting a variety of creators and artists of numerous genres.
Even live streamers like Darren "IShowSpeed" have bloomed on the platform in the past year. IShowSpeed, a distinguished figure in streaming, gained over 2,700,000 subscribers since the start of the year.
This article explores the rankings of the most subscribed YouTube channels for 2024. The entries include both corporate and individual-backed channels.
Note: The rankings and statistical data for this article have been derived from sociablade.com
Five most subscribed channels on YouTube (2024)
5) SET India
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SET IndiaSony Entertainment Television, often abbreviated as SET, is an Indian Hindi language-based entertainment television network.
SET India serves as the YouTube channel of the network. The channel began its operations in 1995. It's operated by Culver Max Entertainment under Sony Pictures. The content of the channel mostly consists of moments, compilations or trailers of Indian television shows and movies.
The channel has 175 million subscribers and over 140,000 uploads. The sheer volume of episodes has also helped the channel net more than a staggering 166 billion views. The channel was first created on September 20, 2006.
4) Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes
Cocomelon is an animated series aimed at providing entertainment content for children.
The channel's content consists of rhymes and children's songs played alongside 3D animations. Most of its videos focus on a family with three children and additional side characters.
Cocomelon has 11 other channels with content translated into several languages, including Portuguese, German, French, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian and others. The channel has 178 million subscribers and over 184 billion views on its videos. It has the second-highest video views on the platform.
3) YouTube Movies
YouTube Movies, also known as Movies, Movies & TV is YouTube's official channel for featuring films that can be rented or purchased on the platform.
This section can be traced back to 2009 when it was available as separate "Movies" and "Shows" tabs. Eventually, the movie rental function was introduced on YouTube in 2010, which got applied to mainstream shows and movies in 2011.
The channel holds 182 million subscribers. As the channel doesn't have any uploaded videos and simply spotlights movies, it officially has zero views in total. The channel's latest iteration, Movies & TV, was created on June 10, 2015.
2) T-series
T-Series is an Indian channel owned by Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited record label, known for its Hindi film soundtracks and Indian pop music. This is a channel known best for its fierce competition with YouTube legend Felix "PewDiePie" for the number one spot on the most subscribed channel.
Their feud started in 2018 and eventually ended with T-Series becoming the most subscribed channel in April 2019 and maintaining that till June 1, 2024. Interestingly, it was the feud between T-series and PewDiePie that contributed to the rise of Jimmy "MrBeast".
He gained prominence for helping PewDiePie in his battle against T-series by advertising the former's channel and urging people to subscribe to him. Eventually, it would be MrBeast who would dethrone T-series from the number one spot.
T-series has 269 million subscribers and more than 21,000 uploads and has garnered over 260 billion views on its videos. The channel was created on March 13, 2006.
1) MrBeast
Jimmy "MrBeast" is the most subscribed creator on the platform. He's known for his big-scale challenge videos, involving him and his set of friends engaging in adventurous yet formidable activities for the entertainment of his viewers.
His content often also involves contests, with participants being involved in accomplishing certain objectives to win a valuable prize. He started the channel on February 19, 2012.
He also often engages in philanthropic content, like his video titled, I Built 100 Houses And Gave Them Away! where he provided free houses to those afflicted by natural disasters or inferior living conditions.
MrBeast's channel overtook T-series on June 2, 2024, to become the most subscribed channel, with its current subscriber count being 302 million. His videos have garnered 54 billion views, with only 807 uploads.
MrBeast's latest video involved 50 creators going up against each other in a multitude of challenges to stand a chance to win $1 million, which will be utilized for their subscribers. The creators included Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, Charlie "penguinz0" and Olajide "KSI".
