PewDiePie and T-Series Hit 90 Million YouTube Subscribers
By Nicholas Barth ·
PewDiePie and T-Series both made YouTube history on March 18th by reaching 90 million subscribers on the platform in their battle to be the most subscribed to channel.
Monday, March 18th has been a wild day in the ongoing YouTube Subscriber battle between YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg and Indian Record Label and film production company T-Series for the title of most subscribed to channel on the YouTube platform. Having been the most subscribed to channel on YouTube for years, PewDiePie had no real challenger to the crown until the arrival of T-Series who has been right on the heels of PewDiePie for the past few months. This race came to a historic highlight on March 18th when both PewDiePie and T-Series reached 90 million YouTube subscribers.
PewDiePie vs T-Series - 90 Million YouTube Subscribers
The action-packed day began with the Indian Record Label surpassing the top YouTuber in total subscribers in the early morning hours of Monday where it was able to get 57 followers ahead of its competitor.
?RED ALERT? ?T-SERIES HAS PASSED PEWDIEPIE?
— PewDiePie subgap bot (@subgap) March 18, 2019
FIGHT BACK!, FIGHT BACK THIS CANNOT BE THE END!!
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LETS GO, THE GAP IS NOW: -207
However, PewDiePie was able to regain his lead over his challenger later on in the day and at the same time hit the historic mark of reaching 90 million subscribers on the platform. This was one of the longest leads that the Indian entertainment giant has been able to secure over the popular YouTuber. Unfortunately for fans of PewDiePie's biggest competitor, the lead was not able to last past March 18th.
??WE HAVE HIT 90 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!??
— PewDiePie subgap bot (@subgap) March 18, 2019
THE SUBGAP IS NOW 3778
T-Series would also reach 90 million followers on Monday marking the second ever channel on the video sharing platform to secure 90 million followers. At the time of this writing, PewDiePie currently sits with a total of 90,030,568 YouTube subscribers in comparison to the 90,016,754 that T-Series currently has to its name.
While the battle for the most subscribers on YouTube between PewDiePie and T-Series is far from over, March 18th will be remembered as the day in the epic struggle that both competitors reached 90 million subscribers.
(cover photo courtesy of J. Countess/WireImage)