Who has the most followers on TikTok? The 25 most followed accounts in 2026

Khaby Lame (@khaby.lame) has the most followers on TikTok, with 163.0 million. Charli D'Amelio is second with 160.3 million, 2.7 million behind, and MrBeast is third with 142.9 million.

Only three accounts have passed 100 million. The fourth biggest is TikTok's own account, at 96.1 million. This list ranks 36 of the largest accounts by the follower count TikTok itself returns, with the top 10 counted again on 5 October 2026.

Counts as of 5 October 2026 (top 10) and 27 September 2026 (ranks 11 to 25).

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Who has the most followers on TikTok: the top 25

This is the full top 25, ranked by followers. The likes column is the total number of likes across every video the account has posted. Ranks 1 to 10 are from 5 October 2026; ranks 11 to 25 from 27 September 2026.

Data: public TikTok profile counts for 36 accounts, pulled one at a time on 27 September 2026; the top 10 pulled again on 5 October 2026 (5 October snapshot). TikTok returns these follower counts rounded to the nearest 100,000. Its raw like totals break above about 2.1 billion, so we corrected those and confirmed every one against Wikipedia's list (17 September 2026). Open the 27 September snapshot.

A few things stand out. Six of the top 25 are not people at all: TikTok itself, ESPN, two football clubs and two football competitions. On 27 September, Omar Aliev had moved above Kylie Jenner since Wikipedia's 17 September count. Just outside the top 25 sit Selena Gomez (58.6 million), Younes Zarou (57.6 million) and Shakira (56.8 million).

Could Charli D'Amelio take number one back?

The gap at the top was 2.7 million followers on 5 October 2026. That sounds like a lot, but it is less than 2% of Khaby's total.

It closed through September, then stalled. On 1 September 2026, Dexerto counted Khaby at 162.8 million and Charli at 159.2 million. By 27 September, Khaby had added about 200,000 followers and Charli about 1.1 million. Between 27 September and 5 October, neither rounded count moved: both read exactly what they did eight days earlier. MrBeast is the one still climbing, up about 700,000 in those eight days, though he is still 17.4 million behind Charli.

TikTok rounds counts this big to the nearest 100,000, so a gain under that can hide. If Charli's September pace returns, the number one spot could change hands again. That is why this page is refreshed.

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Who has held number one over time?

Only a handful of accounts have ever been the most followed on TikTok. Each one got there with a different kind of video.

Sources: Wikipedia for the full timeline; Entertainment Tonight (March 2020) and TechCrunch (June 2022) for the two most recent changes. Lisa and Lena's dates come from Wikipedia alone.

Charli D'Amelio passed Loren Gray when both had about 41 million followers. Entertainment Tonight reported Charli at 41.4 million and Loren at 41.3 million that day. Eight months later, on 22 November 2020, Charli became the first person to reach 100 million followers on TikTok, a record Guinness World Records lists.

Khaby Lame took over in June 2022 with about 142 million followers. Guinness reported that he was growing by about 3 million followers a month at the time, against about 1 million for Charli. Four years on, that has flipped. Loren Gray, the number one of 2019, now has 52.7 million followers, well outside the top 25.

This is the kind of video that got Khaby to the top. It is one of his most liked, from January 2022.

What do the most followed TikTokers have in common?

Many need no words

Khaby Lame's videos work in any country because he rarely says a word. He watches a silly life hack, then shows the easy way with a shrug. Zach King's videos are visual tricks built in editing. CZN Burak cooks huge meals and smiles at the camera. A viewer in Mexico, Turkey or Japan gets the joke without subtitles.

Music and dance got the early leaders there

Every number one in the table before Khaby grew with music: lip-sync videos for Lisa and Lena and Loren Gray, dances for Charli D'Amelio. Addison Rae and Bella Poarch rose the same way and now release music themselves.

The list is global

The top 25 includes accounts from at least eight countries, among them the US, Italy, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, South Korea and Kazakhstan. Indonesia's Willie Salim has more followers than BTS, Dwayne Johnson or Billie Eilish.

Posting a lot is one route, not the only one

The number of videos behind these counts varies hugely. FIFA World Cup has posted about 11,100 videos and ESPN about 10,600. Billie Eilish has 82 and Lamine Yamal 83. Stars who were already famous bring their fans with them. Creators who started on TikTok, like Khaby (1,357 videos) and Charli (3,283), built their followings by posting for years. If you are growing your own account, the second route is the one that applies to you. Our guide on how to get followers on TikTok covers it.

Who is the most followed on TikTok in each category?

Here is the biggest account in each group among the 36.

Data: the 27 September 2026 profile pull, with the top 10 updated on 5 October 2026. Categories cover only the accounts we checked, which include every account in Wikipedia's top 33. Open the snapshot.

Lamine Yamal is the only individual athlete in the top 25. He plays for FC Barcelona and Spain and is 19, which makes his 70.7 million followers stand out: he has posted just 83 videos. Charli D'Amelio has almost twice the likes of anyone else in the top 36, even though she is not number one for followers. For the videos behind those likes, see our list of the most liked TikTok videos.

How can you rank any group of creators yourself?

The same check works for any list of accounts, not just the famous ones. If you want to see who is biggest in your niche, or you are picking creators for a campaign, you can pull every profile on the same day and compare like with like. An AI agent connected to TokConnect can do the whole list in one go.

Paste this into your agent, with your own niche in place of fitness:

Find the 20 biggest TikTok creators in fitness and rank them by followers. For each one give followers, total likes, number of videos and likes per video, and flag any account that looks like a copy or fan page of a bigger creator.

Followers alone can mislead. A creator with fewer followers but more likes per video often gets a better response. The engagement rate calculator shows you how to measure that, and our guide to finding TikTok influencers explains how brands compare creators. To check one account, use the free Follower Counter; to put two side by side, use Account Comparison.

How we got these numbers

We built a candidate list from Wikipedia's list and Dexerto's top 20 (1 September 2026): every account Wikipedia ranked 1 to 33, plus three former leaders. On 27 September 2026 we pulled all 36 profiles one at a time with TokConnect's profile lookup, which returns the public follower count, total likes and video count TikTok shows. On 5 October 2026 we pulled the top 10 again and updated their rows.

Follower counts this large come back rounded to the nearest 100,000, so one site may say 163 million and another 162.9 million on the same day. TikTok's like totals break above about 2.1 billion, so we corrected them and confirmed each against Wikipedia. Accounts outside the 36 could not be ranked, and ranks 11 to 25 date from 27 September.

Many other lists are months old: Wikipedia's 17 September version ranked Kylie Jenner above Omar Aliev, and ten days later Omar was half a million ahead. The snapshots are public: 5 October recheck and 27 September pull. For wider numbers about the app itself, see our TikTok statistics page.