List of most‐subscribed users on YouTube

This list of most subscribed users on YouTube contains the top 50 channels with the most subscribers on the video platform YouTube. The ability to "subscribe" to a user's channel was added to YouTube by late October 2005, and the "most subscribed" list on YouTube began as a chart by May 2006, at which time Smosh was number one with fewer than 3,000 subscribers. Since December 22, 2013, the most subscribed user has been PewDiePie.

The following table lists the top 50 most subscribed channels on YouTube, with each total rounded down to the nearest million subscribers, as well as the network, country and language of each channel. Channels marked as "Auto-generated by YouTube" (such as Music, Gaming, Sports and Movies) are not included. As of August 15, 2017, 32 out of the 50 top channels originate from English-speaking countries (23 from the United States) and 37 are English-language channels.

The following table lists the YouTube channels with the greatest number of subscribers by the country or territory that their channel originates from. Only countries that have at least one channel with over 1 million subscribers are included.

The following table lists the last 16 channels to become YouTube's most subscribed channel, from May 2006 to present.

Timeline of Most Subscribed Channels (May 2006 – Aug 2017)

In late 2006, when Peter Oakley, also known as Geriatric1927, became most subscribed, a number of TV channels wanted to interview him on his rise to fame. The Daily Mail and TechBlog did an article about him and his success. In 2009, the FRED channel was the first to have over one million subscribers.

Following the third time that Smosh became most subscribed, Ray William Johnson collaborated with the duo. A flurry of top YouTubers including Ryan Higa, Shane Dawson, Felix Kjellberg, Michael Buckley, Kassem Gharaibeh, The Fine Brothers, and Johnson himself, congratulated the duo shortly after they surpassed Johnson as the most subscribed channel.

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