Instagram has become a source of advertising, promotion and income for many celebrities.
Such is the importance today of being a benchmark in social networks that some of them entrust their management to professionals.
Others prefer to have personal control, but everyone knows that the quality of the image is only compensated by a single moment in which their followers feel part of one of their most private moments in a way.
This need to accumulate followers has led in recent years to the creation of lists of the celebrities who have the most admirers on their own profiles.
As if it were a
Forbes list
, here is a review of the celebrities who have entered and even surpassed the milestone of having a hundred million followers on Instagram.
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 241 million
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For two years the undisputed leader of this select list is Cristiano Ronaldo.
In fact, he himself could crown another list that includes celebrities with more than 200 million followers, as it exceeds 241 million.
In addition to those who follow his pirouettes on the soccer field, before with Real Madrid now with Juventus, CR7 knows how to win over his people with the publicity of his businesses, showing his luxurious cars, his great mansions and also his family, that arouses great interest, formed by the Spanish Georgina Rodríguez and her four children.
2. Ariana Grande, 206 million
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This past September was a successful month for Ariana Grande, culminating in her becoming the first woman with more than 200 million followers on Instagram.
Which places the singer of
Thank u, next
in the second position of this famous list but the first female worldwide.
3. Dwyane Johnson 'The Rock', 203 million
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American actor Dwayne Johnson, better known as
The Rock
, surpassed 200 million followers on his Instagram account in early October.
With this milestone, he became the most followed American man on the social network, but also the third most followed famous in the world.
To celebrate, La Roca did not hesitate to upload a video to the social network in which, dressed in a bow tie and toasting with champagne, he thanked all his followers for the effort.
“Lesson I learned, as I surpassed 200 million followers. Always speak your truth.
And when you speak your truth, do your best to speak with dignity, compassion, respect, poise, and empathy.
Even when conversations get awkward, when you approach it with respect and care, on the other side of the awkwardness, there is clarity and progress, ”the actor added to his post.
4. Kylie Jenner, 200 million
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The youngest of the Kardashian clan has opened a gap with respect to almost all her sisters on Instagram by placing the first of all of them with more than 200 million followers and, therefore, the fourth in the list of the most followed.
The reality star and businesswoman is also the highest paid celebrity according to
Forbes
.
With an average of $ 986,000 (866,000 euros) per ad-supported publication, at 22, Jenner has earned more than 520 million euros in the last year.
Most of the profits come from the sale of half of his cosmetics business for more than € 540 million
5. Selena Gomez, 195 million
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Since 2016, the singer and actress Selena Gomez has been the undisputed queen of this social network.
Until two years ago, when Cristiano Ronaldo unseated her in number of followers.
Now she has three other people above her on the list in addition to the Portuguese star, but that does not mean that Gomez continues to lovingly care for her followers.
She, who has come to close the profile to detoxify from social networks, attracts a great deal of attention from the public not only for her profession, but also for her personal situation and her comings and goings with Justin Bieber and for her health problems , which have led him to enter a psychiatric center on occasion.
6. Kim Kardashian, 191 million
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With more than 191 million followers, Kim Kardashian is the second of her famous clan to make this list, hot on the heels of her younger sister, Kylie Jenner, in number of followers.
If anyone has managed to turn fame into a real business, it has been the popular reality TV star who, at 39, has an estimated fortune of about 663 million euros thanks to the family television program, his mobile applications, his publications on Instagram and its lines of cosmetics, perfumes and the most recent and as successful as controversial underwear.
7. Leo Messi, 168 million
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His Instagram is full of images of him playing soccer, training or modeling for his own clothing brand.
It also leaves room for the solidarity work carried out by its homonymous foundation and, very from time to time, Leo Messi shares with his 168 million followers some snippets of his private life, the one he shares with his wife Antonela Rocuzzo and the three children of the couple.
But each of his
posts
accumulate millions of
likes
and thousands of comments.
8. Beyoncé, 155 million
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Although it does not crown the list, until two years ago Beyoncé was the star that
I liked the
most
thanks to the photo of the pose in which she showed her pregnancy with twins in an image captured by photographer Awol Eriku.
But the interpreter of
Single Ladies
was surpassed in this section by Cristiano Ronaldo thanks to the photograph that he shared as soon as his daughter Alana Martina was born in 2018. A family image in which he appeared with Georgina Rodríguez, the newborn and her eldest son , Cristiano Jr., with a dressing gown and surgical caps.
For some time now, Beyoncé has put aside the publications in which she looked the same with her eldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, and now dedicates this social network to promote her clothing line and the covers she stars in.
9. Justin Bieber, 150 million
No less than 150 million followers contemplate the adventures of Justin Bieber on Instagram, a profile that has also suffered ups and downs because the
Sorry
singer
closed it on some occasion, such as in the summer of 2016. The 26-year-old musician was one of the first celebrities to use Instagram continuously, to communicate both their personal and professional lives and send messages to their followers, something they continue to do.
10. Neymar, 143 million
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The Brazilian soccer player Neymar is the third athlete with the most followers in this network, taking bronze after Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.
The current member of Paris Saint-Germain uses his profile to post images of his matches, but also of his many sponsors, who have made him one of the richest footballers in the world.
His transfer from Barça to PSG was already the most expensive in history, with 222 million euros.
In the network you can also observe colleagues, friends or his son, with whom he is a single father.
11. Kendall Jenner, 142 million
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After Kylie, her little sister, and Kim, one of the oldest, Kendall Jenner could not miss on the list.
The fifth of the six Jenner-Kardashian siblings just turned 25 as one of the most prestigious models in the world.
Although she shies away from the media exposure of the rest of the family and is more focused on her career, her Instagram profile shows that her fame and last name are still there.
12. Taylor Swift, 140 million
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Singer Taylor Swift is ranked number 12 on the list, but she is also one of the celebrities with the least content on Instagram, where she has just over 460 posts, far from the almost 3,000 for Cristiano Ronaldo or the 5,300 for Kim Kardashian.
In his profile there is a lot of information about his albums and songs in promotional moments, but also about his (old) parties, his photo shoots, his friends or his cats, Meredith and Olivia.
13. Jennifer Lopez, 133 million
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The singer and actress Jennifer Lopez is one of the most active artists on Instagram, with many photographs of her, of collaborations with singers like Maluma or of, of course, her fiancé, former athlete Alex Rodriguez, and the family they make up with their children .
14. Nicki Minaj, 123 million
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In the biography on her Instagram profile, singer Nicki Minaj defines herself as "Barbie."
The comparison is logical, given the artist's colors, glitters, stars, changes of clothes and wigs.
Through her networks, Minaj has announced that she was temporarily retiring from music, just over a year ago, or that she was pregnant, last July.
15. Khloé Kardashian, 122 million
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Another Kardashian on the list (and another one is still missing).
In this case it is the third of the sisters, Khloé.
Like the rest of her sisters, she uses her networks to document her life, travel, shopping ... and also to get a significant financial cut.
Whoever was a partner of basketball player Lamar Odom and after Tristan Thompson, with whom he has a daughter and from whom he separated a week after giving birth, earns more than half a million euros for a
sponsored
post
.
16. Miley Cyrus, 116 million
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Like everything on her, Miley Cyrus's Instagram profile is fun, eclectic, political, feisty, and very personal.
The singer, converted from a
country
child
star
to a pop diva, separated and free woman, posts a lot of promotion of her albums and songs on her account, especially in the gallery, while in her Stories she shares more fun and promotional content.
In addition, he has been an active supporter of Joe Biden in the US presidential elections in early November.
17. Katy Perry, 107 million
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Videos, photos, costumes, launches, political campaigns, pregnancy announcements ... everything fits on Katy Perry's Instagram.
Her most frequent special guest is her partner and future husband - they were engaged on Valentine's Day 2019, but have not been able to marry due to the pandemic - father of her daughter Daisy Dove.
The last few weeks he has been dedicated to promoting the vote among the American population and supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a very active way.
18. Kourtney Kardashian, 103 million
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Kourtney, the oldest of the Kardashian sisters, is the latest to enter this exclusive list, where only her mother, Kris Jenner, with 37 million followers, and her stepfather, Caitlyn, with 10.6 million, remain.
The first-born of Kris and Robert Kardashian came to consider leaving the
reality
of the family and taking a step back in its public exposure, but will finally continue in it until next year, when it ends permanently.
19. Kevin Hart, 100 million
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The images of his filming, his family or the videos of his recovery after the serious car accident he suffered in September 2019 are the various publications that Kevin Hart shares on his social networks and that have made the actor and comedian the last Popular face to break into the coveted celebrity list with 100 million followers on Instagram or more.