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Top 100 YouTube Artists

The 100 most viewed artistson YouTube this week

The top YouTube artists ranked by the total views of their channel, or by subscribers. See what each one gained in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, 7, 14 and 30 days. The list updates every Monday.

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Top 100

The most viewed artists on YouTube right now

Top 100 YouTube artists by channel views

Updated Nov 2, 2026 · next update Nov 9, 2026

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Growth over
Top 100 YouTube artists by channel views
#Artist
1
Same place
Bad Bunny50.1B00%
2
Same place
BLACKPINK43B00%
3
Same place
Ed Sheeran39B+265.9M+0.69%
4
Same place
The Weeknd38.4B00%
5
Same place
KAROL G35.4B00%
6
Same place
Shakira34.5B+77M+0.22%
7
Same place
Ariana Grande33.8B+385.3M+1.2%
8
Same place
Justin Bieber32.1B+38.7M+0.12%
9
Same place
Ozuna29.9B+30.2M+0.1%
10
Same place
BTS29.7B+143M+0.48%
11
Same place
Daddy Yankee29.5B+213.8M+0.73%
12
Same place
Maroon 528.9B+271M+0.95%
13
Same place
J Balvin28.5B00%
14
Same place
Katy Perry27.1B+20.9M+0.08%
15
Same place
Bruno Mars26.9B00%
16
Same place
123 Andrés26.5B+216.4M+0.82%
17
Same place
Eminem26B+18.4M+0.07%
18
Same place
Romeo Santos25.4B00%
19
Same place
Drake24.4B00%
20
Same place
Michael Jackson24.2B+241M+1%
21
Same place
David Guetta24B+31.1M+0.13%
22
Same place
Coldplay24B00%
23
Same place
Imagine Dragons23.7B00%
24
Same place
Billie Eilish23.6B00%
25
Same place
Maluma23.4B+22.9M+0.1%
26
Same place
Rihanna23.2B+29M+0.13%
27
Same place
Enrique Iglesias23.1B+36.6M+0.16%
28
Same place
Chris Brown22.9B00%
29
Same place
Linkin Park22.8B00%
30
Same place
Marília Mendonça21.5B+21.8M+0.1%
31
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Post Malone21.3B+52.3M+0.25%
32
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again20.1B00%
33
Same place
Rauw Alejandro19.6B00%
34
Same place
Lady Gaga19.5B+34.4M+0.18%
35
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Gusttavo Lima19.5B+17.7M+0.09%
36
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Calvin Harris19.4B00%
37
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German Garmendia19.2B+18.3M+0.1%
38
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Nicky Jam19.2B+22.8M+0.12%
39
Same place
Marshmello18.2B00%
40
Same place
Luis Fonsi17.7B+15.9M+0.09%
41
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The Chainsmokers17.5B+6M+0.03%
42
Same place
Beyoncé17.4B+18.9M+0.11%
43
Same place
Alan Walker17.3B+55.2M+0.32%
44
Same place
Sia17.2B00%
45
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One Direction16.8B00%
46
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Dua Lipa16.8B00%
47
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Selena Gomez16.8B+156.6M+0.94%
48
Same place
Wiz Khalifa16.6B+25.2M+0.15%
49
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Shawn Mendes16.5B00%
50
Same place
Pitbull16.5B+21.5M+0.13%
51
Same place
Don Omar15.7B+39.3M+0.25%
52
Same place
Zé Neto & Cristiano15.4B+31M+0.2%
53
Same place
Black Eyed Peas15.3B+38.2M+0.25%
54
Same place
Los Ángeles Azules15B+23.2M+0.15%
55
Same place
Myke Towers14.6B00%
56
Same place
Becky G14.2B00%
57
Same place
Aventura14.1B00%
58
Same place
Fuerza Regida13.9B00%
59
Same place
Peso Pluma13.6B+138.1M+1%
60
1Up 1
PSY13.5B+133.9M+1%
61
1Down 1
Stray Kids13.5B+79.8M+0.6%
62
Same place
Charlie Puth13.2B+131.9M+1%
63
Same place
Farruko13.1B+32M+0.24%
64
Same place
Christian Nodal13.1B00%
65
2Up 2
X‪X‪X13B+129.1M+1%
66
1Down 1
Kendrick Lamar13B00%
67
1Down 1
Nicki Minaj13B00%
68
Same place
Jennifer Lopez12.9B+71.9M+0.56%
69
Same place
KATSEYE12.6B+263.9M+2.1%
70
Same place
AC/DC12.4B00%
71
Same place
Feid12.3B00%
72
Same place
Lana Del Rey12.2B00%
73
Same place
Mariah Carey12.1B+53.5M+0.44%
74
Same place
Grupo Firme12B00%
75
1Up 1
Lil Baby12B+25M+0.21%
76
1Down 1
Jorge & Mateus12B00%
77
Same place
Britney Spears11.7B+27M+0.23%
78
Same place
Calibre 5011.7B+27.3M+0.23%
79
Same place
Doja Cat11.7B+16M+0.14%
80
Same place
Bizarrap11.5B00%
81
Same place
Queen11.5B+22M+0.19%
82
Same place
Kevin Gates11.5B+12.7M+0.11%
83
Same place
Reik11.1B00%
84
Same place
Sebastián Yatra11.1B+11M+0.1%
85
3Up 3
Sidhu Moose Wala11.1B+112.9M+1%
86
1Down 1
Marco Antonio Solís11.1B+68.9M+0.63%
87
1Down 1
Major Lazer11.1B00%
88
1Down 1
Paulo Londra11B00%
89
Same place
BIGBANG10.8B00%
90
Same place
Wesley Safadão10.7B+17.7M+0.17%
91
1Up 1
BABYMONSTER10.7B+122.3M+1.2%
92
1Down 1
Avicii10.6B+8.5M+0.08%
93
Same place
Ha*Ash10.5B+12.3M+0.12%
94
Same place
Wisin & Yandel10.5B00%
95
Same place
P!nk10.4B+15.5M+0.15%
96
Same place
50 Cent10.4B+19.4M+0.19%
97
1Up 1
Meghan Trainor10.4B+59.5M+0.58%
98
1Down 1
Arcángel10.4B00%
99
Same place
Red Hot Chili Peppers10.2B00%
100
New
Maná10.1B+39.5M+0.39%
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This week

What changed in the top 100

  • Bad Bunny is number one, with 50.1 billion views on their YouTube channel.
  • Ariana Grande gained the most views in the last 7 days: 385.3 million.
  • The fastest growing artist is KATSEYE, number 69 in the list, with 2.1% more views than a week ago.
  • Sidhu Moose Wala climbed 3 places, to number 85.
  • Maná is new in the top 100 this week.
  • Between them, the artists in the list gained 4.3 billion views in 7 days.

Most views gained

  • 1
    Ariana Grande
    +385.3Mviews in 7 days
  • 2
    Maroon 5
    +271Mviews in 7 days
  • 3
    Ed Sheeran
    +265.9Mviews in 7 days
  • 4
    KATSEYE
    +263.9Mviews in 7 days
  • 5
    Michael Jackson
    +241Mviews in 7 days

Fastest growing

  • 1
    KATSEYE
    +2.1%more views than a week ago
  • 2
    BABYMONSTER
    +1.2%more views than a week ago
  • 3
    Ariana Grande
    +1.2%more views than a week ago
  • 4
    Sidhu Moose Wala
    +1%more views than a week ago
  • 5
    Peso Pluma
    +1%more views than a week ago

Views or subscribers

Why the list is ranked by views

  • Channel views count every play

    Channel views are the total plays of every video on the artist's own channel, since it opened. Old hits keep adding to it every day. So it shows how much people watch the artist, not only how many follow them.

  • YouTube rounds subscribers

    YouTube shows subscriber counts rounded down to three figures. A channel with 12,345,678 subscribers shows 12,300,000. A channel can win thousands of new subscribers and show no change for days. That's why gains in the subscribers list move in steps.

  • Why other lists show other numbers

    We count one channel per artist: their own. Views of their songs uploaded by labels, other channels or fans are not added. YouTube's own charts count the plays of an artist's songs in one week, wherever they are. Both are right; they measure different things.

How the list works

How the top 100 is made

  • Who is in the list

    The artists in Escalium's music database whose own YouTube channel we follow. Channels of labels, TV shows or compilations aren't artists, so they aren't counted. An artist whose latest reading is more than 10 days older than the others' is left out until they're read again.

  • How growth is measured

    Gained is the latest reading minus the reading from that many days before. When that day is missing, we use the closest day and scale the number to the period. A dash means there isn't a reading close enough.

  • A new list every Monday

    The list is rebuilt every Monday at 05:00 UTC. The arrow next to each artist shows how many places they moved since the week before. "New" means they weren't in last week's list.

  • Where the numbers come from

    We read the public numbers of each artist's channel every day, through YouTube's official API. YouTube lets us keep them for 30 days, so the longest period is 30 days.

YouTube income

What these views pay, roughly

The payout column is an estimate, not what an artist takes home. Here is how we work it out, and what makes the real number different.

How we estimate it

  1. Views gained in the last 30 days
  2. × $0.00069 a view
  3. = what YouTube paid for those views

$0.00069 is the average payout per view we use across Escalium. It's the money YouTube pays for the views, before it's shared between the artist, the label, the publisher and the songwriters.

This week's example

KATSEYE gained 812.7 million views in the last 30 days. At $0.00069 a view, that's about $561,000 paid by YouTube for those views.

What changes the real number

  • Where the viewers are

    An ad seen in the US pays more than one seen in many other countries.

  • Ads and Premium

    YouTube only pays for views that show an ad or come from YouTube Premium members.

  • Who owns the song

    The label, the distributor, the publisher and the songwriters each take their share, set by their contracts.

  • Shorts

    Shorts are paid from a separate pool, in a different way from long videos.

For artists

How artists grow on YouTube

The artists at the top of the list put every song on their own channel and keep giving people a reason to come back. These are the things you can do from your first release.

  • Give every song a video on your channel

    A song without a video on your channel gets its YouTube plays somewhere else, or not at all. A lyric video is the quickest way to have one on release day: you upload the song and get the video with the words in time.

    Make a lyric video

  • Post short clips of the song

    Short vertical clips on YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels are how many people hear a song for the first time. Each clip can send them to the full video.

    Make short promo videos

  • Send fans to one link

    When you share a release, one page with every platform lets each fan pick YouTube, Spotify or the app they use. You also see which posts brought people.

    Create a smart link

  • Watch your numbers week by week

    Look at the views you gain in 7 days, not only the total. Compare them with artists of your size to see if a release really moved you.

    Follow your numbers in Escalium Data

FAQ

Questions about the top YouTube artists

  • This week it's Bad Bunny, with 50.1 billion views on their YouTube channel. The order changes every week: the list above shows the 100 biggest and what each one gained.

  • This week it's BLACKPINK, with 102 million subscribers on their channel. YouTube rounds subscriber counts down to three figures, so this number moves in steps.

  • Ariana Grande, who gained 385.3 million views on their channel in the last 7 days. Sort the list by "Most gained" to see the rest, over 24 hours to 30 days.

  • By the total views of each artist's own YouTube channel, from the latest daily reading. You can switch to subscribers. Growth is the latest reading minus the one from that many days before.

  • Every Monday at 05:00 UTC. We read each channel every day, and on Monday we rebuild the list with the newest numbers. The date of the last and the next update is above the list.

  • The artists in Escalium's music database whose own YouTube channel we follow. Channels of labels, TV shows or compilations aren't artists, so they aren't counted.

  • We count the views of the artist's own channel only. Uploads of their songs by labels, other channels or fans aren't added. YouTube's own charts count the plays of an artist's songs in one week, wherever they are uploaded.

  • YouTube shows subscriber counts rounded down to three figures, for example 12,300,000 instead of 12,345,678. That's why we rank by channel views by default: they count every play.

  • We estimate it as the views gained in 30 days times $0.00069, the average YouTube payout per view we use across Escalium. It's what YouTube pays in total for those views, shared between the artist, the label, the publisher and the songwriters.

  • There's no reading close enough to that day. Some artists are read less often, and YouTube lets us keep numbers for 30 days only, so the 30-day growth sometimes can't be measured.

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