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MrBeast has more YouTube subscribers than anyone else, and his lead keeps growing bigger with each passing month. The North Carolina-based creator added 15 million new subscribers in February 2025, and only one other channel got more than five million new subs.
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To make the Global Top 100 at all, channels needed to add at least 950,000 new fans over a 28-day period. A few of the creators who reached that benchmark are putting their country on the map, though they had to travel the world to do so.
Here’s to the independent documentarians of Saudi Arabia
Once upon a time, Saudi Arabia was a budding YouTube hotbed. About a decade ago, the Middle Eastern kingdom boasted the most plugged-in YouTube viewers in the world, who collectively delivered a massive amount of watch time to a rising group of local creators.
In 2025, we rarely see Saudi creators in our Tubefilter charts, but that changed in February. Two Arabian locals cracked the list of the 100 most-subscribed channels of the month, with Joe HaTTaB moving up to 87th place in the ranking. The documentarian got one million new subscribers in February by taking his show on the road. With his fearless style, he captured the lives of imprisoned gang members in El Salvador. One long-form video from that series has earned more than 39 million views to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0an7kovsPeQ
Joe HaTTaB has become an international superstar by sharing a globetrotting selection of stories. That description could also apply to the other Saudi representative in the Global Top 100, who uploads videos under the name Ali bin Wasel. Rather than releasing the sort of long-form documentary work you’d find on Joe HaTTaB’s channel, Ali plies his trade within the buzzy world of YouTube Shorts.
His hit clips aggregate fascinating stories from around the world, and viewers are hooked. This time last year, Ali bin Wasel was a nonfactor in our YouTube charts, but he has since rocketed up the ranking to reach 96th place in our encapsulation of February’s most-subscribed channels.
Will Saudi Arabia continue to flourish in our charts? Local creators are finding their voices, but as far as Middle Eastern content goes, Dubai is still the #1 hotbed.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 100 Most Subscribed channels this month in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 25
- United States: 21
- Indonesia: 7
- Mexico: 6
- Hong Kong: 5
- Brazil and South Korea: 4
- Japan and Spain: 3
- Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam: 2
- Belarus, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Peru, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates: 1
This month, 64 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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