T-Series beats PewDiePie to attract 100MN YouTube subscribers
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 31 May 2019

Bollywood music and film channel T-Series has become the world’s first YouTube channel to surpass 100 million subscribers, according to Guinness World Records.

The channel has pipped Swedish internet celebrity PewDiePie to the post, after he became the first YouTuber to reach 50 million subscribers. PewDiePie, in reality Brighton-based Felix Kjellberg, currently has more than 96 million subscribers.

Announcing the victory on Twitter, T-Series’ managing director Bhushan Kumar (pictured) proclaimed it “the world’s biggest YouTube Channel”.

Delhi-based T-Series, which was founded in 1983 by Gulshan Kumar, initially released devotional music and popular Bollywood soundtracks, but has since expanded into film production. Its popular 1990 romantic drama Aashiqui was remade in 2013, and upcoming titles include Ali Abbas Zafar's **Bharat https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7721800/**, co-starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.

T-Series launched its YouTube channel in 2006.

Bhushan Kumar has run the company since the still unsolved assassination of his father Gulshan in 1997.