MrBeast and T-Series are battling for the most-subscribed YouTube channel

Despite his immense fame and online presence, Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast) has ne'er been nan astir subscribed transmission connected YouTube — though that whitethorn not beryllium nan lawsuit for long. T-Series, India’s largest euphony explanation and movie studio, presently holds nan apical spot pinch 263 cardinal YouTube subscribers, but MrBeast is quickly closing successful connected that fig pinch 252 cardinal subs.

With its starring position now threatened, T-Series published a caller video connected Monday encouraging viewers to subscribe to nan channel. It opens pinch nan quote “I want to put India and my group astatine nan apical of nan world platform,” attributed to T-Series laminitis Gulshan Kumar (who passed distant successful 1997), earlier calling for prospective subscribers to “make history together.”

The video itself doesn’t mention MrBeast directly, but nan telephone to action stands retired among nan accustomed euphony videos and movie trailers posted by T-Series. Subscriber stats for some accounts besides show a opposition successful maturation — while MrBeast has gained 7 cardinal subscribers successful nan past month, T-Series only attracted 2 million. Annual figures reported by Tubefilter are similar, pinch nan 23 cardinal subs T-Series gained complete nan past twelvemonth being vastly eclipsed by MrBeast’s 105 million.

There’s been immoderate lighthearted rivalry betwixt MrBeast and T-Series since then, pinch nan erstwhile vowing to return nan apical spot in PewDiePie’s honor. And pinch MrBeast now venturing extracurricular of YouTube to big a $5 cardinal Beast Games gameshow pinch Prime Video, his assemblage will apt grow capable to execute that goal.