Best YouTube Music Creators · Monthly
As of June 2026, the best youtube music creators are Taylor Swift, BLACKPINK and Justin Bieber, ranked by the BestCreators cross-platform score. The top 16 below are updated monthly using audience reach, engagement and 30-day growth.
- 1Taylor SwiftMusicYouTube62MFollowers0.0%97Elite
- 2BLACKPINKMusicYouTube96MFollowers0.0%97Elite
- 3Justin BieberMusicYouTube76MFollowers0.0%97Elite
- 4EminemMusicYouTube61MFollowers0.0%96Elite
- 5Ed SheeranMusicYouTube56MFollowers0.0%95Established
- 6Ariana GrandeMusicYouTube55MFollowers0.0%95Established
- 7ShakiraMusicYouTube53MFollowers0.0%94Established
- 8Maroon 5MusicYouTube37MFollowers0.0%93Established
- 9Katy PerryMusicYouTube43MFollowers0.0%93Established
- 10Bruno MarsMusicYouTube39MFollowers0.0%93Established
- 11BANGTANTVMusicYouTube78MFollowers0.0%93Established
- 12MarshmelloMusicYouTube57MFollowers+0.4%92Established
- 13Billie EilishMusicYouTube49MFollowers+0.9%91Established
- 14The WeekndMusicYouTube35MFollowers0.0%90Established
- 15Dua LipaMusicYouTube25MFollowers+0.6%84Established
- 16Post MaloneMusicYouTube24MFollowers0.0%83Rising
These 16 creators average 52.9M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 93. The fastest riser this monthly window is Billie Eilish. Rankings are recomputed continuously from public platform data; see our methodology.
Data & methodology
“Rankings are recomputed continuously from public-platform data using the BestCreators cross-platform score — a deterministic 0–100 percentile measure, not an estimate.”
The top 16 youtube music creators average 52.9M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 93; Taylor Swift leads at #1.
Sourced from the YouTube Data API v3, captured June 2026. All figures are public-platform metrics shown with their capture date; the BestCreators Score is computed by a deterministic, versioned algorithm (v1) that percentile-normalizes audience, engagement and reach. See the full methodology.