YouTube: MrBeast Broke the Half-Billion Barrier

MrBeast is the first channel ever past 500M subscribers (~508M), leaving T-Series (~313M) and Cocomelon (~202M) far behind.

The top 3

  1. MrBeast: One in Sixteen Humans Subscribed: Jimmy Donaldson's ~508M subscribers mean roughly 1 in 16 people alive is subscribed — he dethroned T-Series in 2024 and has nearly lapped it since.
  2. T-Series: Dethroned but Unbeaten on Views: The Indian music label lost the subscriber crown in 2024 yet still rules total views with ~343 billion — a race MrBeast doesn't even lead top-5 in.
  3. Cocomelon: Toddlers Built a Top-3 Channel: A nursery-rhyme cartoon holds YouTube's #3 spot at ~202M subscribers — proof that the platform's biggest audiences include viewers who can't read yet.

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