What is the top 100 YouTubers list?
This is a live ranking of the 100 most subscribed YouTube channels, read from the YouTube Data API and refreshed every few hours. Each channel shows its subscribers, total views, number of videos and country.
YouTube doesn't publish a list of channels by size, so the ranking starts from a tracked set of the world's largest channels and a daily job adds any other channel with 30 million or more subscribers that turns up on a trending chart in any of 111 countries. Auto-generated topic channels are left out because nobody runs them. You can sort by subscribers, views or videos, or show one country's channels, and open any channel's full stats.
How the ranking works
1.Live counts
Subscriber, view and video counts are fetched from the YouTube Data API and refreshed every few hours.
2.Sort or filter
Rank the channels by subscribers, total views or number of videos, or show only one country's channels.
3.Dig deeper
Open any channel's full stats, or compare two channels side by side.
Example: why channels can share a rank
YouTube rounds public subscriber counts down to three significant figures.
- Shown
- 316,000,000
- Means
- at least 316 million, fewer than 317 million
- Two channels both at 112M
- tied, sharing one rank
The true order of tied channels isn't public, so neither is placed above the other.
About this list
The ranking starts from 135 of the world's largest channels, each checked against the YouTube API, and a daily job adds any other channel with 30M+ subscribers that it finds on a trending chart in any of 111 countries. The table shows the top 100 by live subscriber count. Topic channels that YouTube generates automatically, like Music or Gaming, aren't included because nobody runs them.
YouTube rounds public subscriber counts down to three significant figures, so 316,000,000 means at least 316 million but fewer than 317 million. Channels with the same rounded count share a rank, and the order between them isn't known.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the most subscribed YouTuber?
The channel at number one in the table above, by live subscriber count. The table updates every few hours.
Why do some channels share a rank?
YouTube rounds subscriber counts, so channels with the same rounded number are tied. Their exact order isn't public.
Why isn't a big channel on the list?
YouTube has no public list of every channel by size, so the ranking follows the large channels it knows about and adds new ones as they trend. A big channel that rarely trends may be missing; check its numbers with the channel stats tool.
Where does the country come from?
It's the country each channel sets in its own settings. Some channels don't set one, so they only appear under All countries.
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