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title: "Who is the most followed person on Instagram?"  
description: "Who is the most followed person on Instagram?"  
author: "Vishal Kesarwani"  
published: 2018-09-17  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49818/who-is-the-most-followed-person-on-instagram  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["instagram"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Who is the most followed person on Instagram?

## Answers

### Answer by Gurmeet Kaur

**“Selena Gomez”** ![Who is the most followed person on Instagram?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/81fb104b-5419-4d16-9fa2-b4b614c0cc9a/images/a800e9f8-732a-4167-90f5-abc185b288b0.jpg)\
With 143 million followers she is the most followed person on Instagram. **Selena Gomez is a globally renowned American singer producer and actress.** In her adolescence, she appeared in a television series Barney & Friends and later got wide recognition for her role as Alex Russo in Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly in the year 2007. ![Who is the most followed person on Instagram?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/81fb104b-5419-4d16-9fa2-b4b614c0cc9a/images/37bb0e4a-8fdd-45e1-a8df-b7e572f95e4e.jpg)\
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After appearing in various TV [series](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2461/key-details-of-the-redmi-k60-series-have-leaked-ahead-of-launch) Selena later went on to become a singer and received massive [success](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198683/how-to-be-successful-in-your-life) from all across the globe for her songs **The [heart](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300787/heart-disease-in-women-symptoms-and-diagnosis) wants what it wants, Wolves, Bad Liar, Back to you and hands to myself.** ![Who is the most followed person on Instagram?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/81fb104b-5419-4d16-9fa2-b4b614c0cc9a/images/f9275236-cb05-4ada-8f9a-79ee6140e5a1.jpg)\
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**Selena is consequently ruling Instagram second year with a whopping 143 million follower and has left Christiano Ronaldo far behind who was earlier the king of Instagram.** Selena promises to dominate the Instagram in her coming years too as the difference between her and Ronaldo is of 20 million followers. \
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**"ALL THE BEST"**

### Answer by  Maria Garcia

According to me top two Instagram accounts with the most followers worldwide as of January 2019 (in millions) are - Instagram: 277.55\
Cristiano Ronaldo: 152.62

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