YouTube is the largest video posting platform in the world today, most artists and music groups will upload videos here. Based on views and subscribers, we can track their popularity. In addition to the number of subscriptions, the number of views on YouTube also partly evaluates the popularity of artists.
1. Justin Bieber – more than 26.6 billion views
Justin Bieber has just been kicked out of the top 1 artist YouTube channel with subscribers in September 2021. The Canadian “Prince of Pop” is still a bright name in the music market up to the present time, most recently, at the MTV Video Music Awards 2021 event, he received up to 7 nominations and is also the name that received the most nominations at this prestigious event.
Justin Bieber’s YouTube channel currently has 26,657,493,110 views, was established on January 16, 2007 and held the top 1 position for a long time until September 10, 2021, when it was officially surpassed by BLACKPINK.
2. Ed Sheeran – 25.8 billion views
In second place is none other than Ed Sheeran, whose YouTube channel currently has more than 50.6 million followers, among the top 5 artist YouTube channels with the highest number of subscribers in the world.
With hit songs that have garnered billions of views like Shape Of You, Perfect, Thinking Out Loud … it’s not difficult to understand why he has such a huge number of views. Ed Sheeran channel was founded on August 8, 2006, currently has 232 videos earning 25,848,218,458 views
3. Taylor Swift – more than 23.7 billion views
When talking about the most influential music in the world, no one can help but mention country music singer Taylor Swift. During her 15 years of artistic activities, the female singer has devoted herself to music and the audience.
From “country music princess”, Taylor has transformed into “pop queen”. Not only does it have a huge number of subscribers on YouTube. She also has a huge number of followers on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok,…
Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel currently has more than 45.2 million subscribers. It was founded on September 21, 2006. She is currently ranked 3rd on the list of artist YouTube channels with the most views in the world. world with 23,772,458,592 views.
4. Katy Perry – 22.8 billion views
Katy Perry is the stage name of Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, an American singer, songwriter and television judge. She is a female Pop superstar who took the music market by storm in the 2010s, and is one of the best-selling music artists worldwide, with sales of more than 143 million records.
Katy Perry’s YouTube channel was founded on June 2, 2008, currently has more than 41.9 million subscriptions, earning 22,865,623,746 views.
5. Shakira – 21.8 billion views
Shakira is a vocalist known as the “Queen of Latin music” with many hit songs such as La La La, Waka Waka, Hips Don’t Lie … Among them, Whenever Wherever is a single in the album. Fifth studio “Laundry Service” (2001) of female singer Shakira. The song achieved unexpected success when it topped the music charts of 29 countries. Thanks to this pervasive power, Whenever Wherever is considered one of the famous songs in the career of this Colombian female singer. The single sold over 8.5 million copies globally and became not only the world’s best-selling single of 2002 but also one of the best-selling singles of all time.
Shakira’s YouTube channel currently has 34.5 million subscribers, was established on October 16, 2005 and has currently earned 21,858,029,633 views.
Although BLACKPINK owns an artist YouTube channel with the largest number of subscribers on YouTube, 70.5 million people, it only has earned more than 21.5 billion views and is ranked 6th on this list. However, the YouTube channel of the 4 “black rose” girls was only established in 2016 and has already earned such huge numbers, it will definitely surpass the names in the current Top 5 in the future. .
Not only BLACKPINK, but BTS is not on this list, or even the Top 10 despite owning the artist YouTube channel with the third most subscriptions in the world. The reason is because BTS’s YouTube channel was also established late, in 2012, and in particular, BTS’s MVs are not posted on the group’s YouTube channel but are posted by the management company’s YouTube channel.
