Most Liked Indian Songs on YouTube

About this ranking: where the likes come from

“Hanuman Chalisa” by Hariharan leads this ranking with 22,567,427 likes, 3.6 million ahead of “Yalgaar” by CarryMinati. This page tracks 8,572 uploads in all — Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included, with a public like count — worth 4.15 billion likes between them, 1,160 of which have passed 1 million.

• Number one
  Hanuman Chalisa — Hariharan22,567,427 likes, as of 18 September 2026
• Gap to number two
  3.6 million likes (19% clear)Second place is “Yalgaar” by CarryMinati on 18,923,210 likes.
• Uploads ranked here
  8,572 uploadsSpread across 2,848 distinct artist credit lines, covering Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included, with a public like count.
• Past 1 million likes
  1,160 of 8,57267 of those have gone past 5 million.
• Top 50 share
  10% of all likes in this ranking421.9 million likes out of 4.15 billion across all 8,572 uploads.
• Recent versus catalogue
  1 of the top 50 were released in 2024 or laterThe newest entry in the top 50 is “Millionaire” by Yo Yo Honey Singh, from August 2024.
• Last refreshed
  18 September 2026, 18:31 (server time)Read from the YouTube Data API by the site's daily update job.
• Languages in this top 50
  Hindi (27), Punjabi (20), Other (3)3 language tags in all. Punjabi releases are ranked here too — they are Indian songs — and also have a Punjabi-only board.
• Most likes per view
  Yalgaar — CarryMinati, 4.78%18,923,210 likes from 396,235,949 views. The ranking above is ordered by the raw like total, not by this rate.

How this data is collected

Every figure in the table above is read from the official YouTube Data API — the same counter YouTube prints under the video itself. Nothing is scraped from another website, and no number here is an estimate, a projection or a chart position we assigned.

A scheduled job on our server re-reads the whole catalogue once a day, at 18:30 server time, and writes the new totals straight into the table you are reading. The most recent successful refresh for this ranking finished on 18 September 2026, 18:31.

Likes are YouTube's own public totals for each upload, counted over the entire lifetime of the video rather than any recent window, so older uploads have had far longer to accumulate them than new releases.

Each upload is tracked as its own row. An official video, a lyric video and a live performance of the same song are three separate uploads with three separate counters, so the same title can legitimately appear more than once in the ranking — the numbers are never merged, because YouTube does not merge them.

This board covers Indian music in every language, Punjabi included — Punjabi songs are Indian songs, so they are ranked here alongside everything else. It lists uploads that publicly report at least one like; YouTube hides the like count on some videos, and those are left out rather than listed as zero. If you want Punjabi on its own, there is a separate Punjabi most-liked board.

Songs are added when we find them on an official artist or record-label channel. We embed YouTube's player and host no audio or video files ourselves. A total can also fall or vanish: if an upload is deleted or set to private on YouTube its counter stops, and the row leaves this ranking at the next refresh.

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