Most subscribed YouTube channels

The table

The column worth your attention is the last one. Subscriber count tells you how big a channel got; average views per video tells you how well it performs now. Across this set the median is about 3.0M views per upload, and channels of almost identical size differ by more than tenfold on it. That gap is upload volume: a channel posting three times a day accumulates subscribers without its typical video reaching many of them.

By country

Country comes from the channel’s own public setting, so channels that leave it blank do not appear in these.

• the United States31
• India19
• the United Kingdom7

What a list like this is good for

Not benchmarking. Comparing a new channel with anything on this page is a good way to feel bad for no useful reason, because most of these were built in a different YouTube, several algorithm generations ago, and a few are television companies rather than creators.

What it is good for is noticing structure. Sort by average views per video and the children’s and music channels separate from the creator-led ones. Look at video count and you can see which of these are libraries and which are shows. Those patterns tell you something about formats. The subscriber column mostly tells you who started early.

For what a view is actually worth in your market, see the YouTube RPM by country pages.