Data study · June 21, 2026
We analyzed 3.26Mof TikTok’s most discoverable creators. Even within this established set, reach is brutally top-heavy: only 1.6% have a million followers, and just 3 accounts break 100M.
1.6%
of 3.26M established creators have 1M+ followers (53,585).
4.3%
are verified
3
accounts over 100M
Discoverable TikTok creators — snapshot June 21, 2026.
1.6%
of 3.26M established creators have 1M+ followers (53,585) — and only 3 accounts top 100M.
70.7%
sit in the 10K–100K band — the working creator middle class, far from household-name reach.
4.3%
are verified overall — but verification jumps to 31% among 1M+ creators. It marks the top tier.
4.2%
list a business contact in their bio, rising to 23% of millionaires — the brand-deal-ready set.
Split 3.26M discoverable creators by follower count and the shape is a pyramid with a fat middle: 70.7% are in the 10K–100K band, 18.3% reach 100K–1M, and the 1M+ tiers barely register. The mega-creators you can name are a rounding error.
Two markers of an established, monetizing creator — a verified badge and a contact email for deals — are rare overall but climb steeply with follower count.
Verified, by follower band
Business contact in bio, by follower band
The handful of accounts above 70M followers. Reach and engagement diverge at the top: Khaby Lame leads on followers, but Charli D'Amelio leads on total likes with 12.2B.
| # | Creator | Followers | Total likes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @khaby.lame | 162.1M | 2.6B |
| 2 | @charlidamelio | 158.6M | 12.2B |
| 3 | @mrbeast | 128.8M | 1.3B |
| 4 | @bellapoarch | 92.1M | 2.4B |
| 5 | @addisonre | 88.1M | 5.3B |
| 6 | @williesalim | 86.8M | 1.8B |
| 7 | @zachking | 84.5M | 1.3B |
| 8 | @kimberly.loaiza | 83.7M | 4.3B |
| 9 | @bts_official_bighit | 80.2M | 1.8B |
| 10 | @therock | 79.6M | 670.4M |
| 11 | @willsmith | 78.3M | 668.6M |
| 12 | @domelipa | 75.7M | 5.3B |
The same figures behind the charts — plain HTML tables, easy to copy and machine-readable for search engines and AI answer engines that can't parse a chart.
| Follower band | Creators | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 10M+ | 1,405 | 0.04% |
| 1M–10M | 52,180 | 1.6% |
| 100K–1M | 597,369 | 18.3% |
| 10K–100K | 2,300,365 | 70.7% |
| 1K–10K | 289,208 | 8.9% |
| Under 1K | 14,687 | 0.5% |
| Follower band | Verified | Contact in bio |
|---|---|---|
| All creators | 4.3% | 4.2% |
| 100K+ followers | 8.4% | 9.4% |
| 1M+ followers | 31.1% | 22.9% |
| Niche | Tagged creators |
|---|---|
| Gaming | 30,380 |
| Comedy | 27,436 |
| Music | 21,979 |
| Fashion | 19,196 |
| Fitness | 17,672 |
| Beauty | 15,769 |
| Education | 15,051 |
| Food | 11,727 |
| Tech | 10,681 |
| Finance | 3,662 |
Directional only: the niche tag is approximate and only a minority of creators carry a specific tag — this ranks tagged creators, not the full population.
We aggregated Crawlora’s TikTok creator dataset — 3,255,214 creators as of June 21, 2026 — with count queries over follower-count bands, the verified flag, and whether a contact email appears in the bio. Figures are a point-in-time snapshot; the dataset grows daily.
Scope. This is a set of discoverable, established creators(seeded popularity-first), not a random sample of all TikTok accounts — 90.7% already have 10K+ followers. Read every figure as “among established creators.” It describes the working-and-up creator landscape, not the long tail of casual accounts. Niche tags are approximate and sparse (directional only); we don’t report engagement here — for engagement by niche see the TikTok Engagement Index. The aggregate rollups are open under CC BY 4.0; we publish aggregates only, never individual creator records.
Cite this
Crawlora (2026). State of TikTok Creators 2026. 1.6% of 3.26M established TikTok creators have 1M+ followers. https://crawlora.net/tiktok-creators-index.
Among 3,255,214 established TikTok creators, only 1.6% — about 53,585 accounts — have 1M or more followers. Just 3 accounts top 100M followers (Khaby Lame, Charli D'Amelio and MrBeast). Even within this already-discoverable set, reach is a steep pyramid: 70.7% sit in the 10K–100K band.
4.3% of established creators carry a verified badge (138,892 of 3,255,214). Verification concentrates sharply at the top: ~8% of creators with 100K+ followers are verified, rising to ~31% of those with 1M+. For most working creators the badge is the exception, not the norm.
Only 4.2% of established creators put a contact email in their bio — but that rises to ~9% of creators with 100K+ followers and ~23% of those with 1M+. Bigger creators are far more likely to be open for brand deals. (We report the rate only; the contacts themselves are never published.)
In this dataset, Khaby Lame leads with ~162M followers, followed by Charli D'Amelio (~159M) and MrBeast (~129M). Charli D'Amelio leads on a different axis — total likes — with 12.2B, more than double the next creator.
No. This is a study of ~3.26M discoverable, established creators (90.7% already have 10K+ followers), not a random sample of all TikTok accounts. It describes the working-and-up creator landscape — the population brands, agencies and tools actually care about — not the long tail of casual accounts. It's a point-in-time snapshot taken June 21, 2026.
Every figure here comes from Crawlora’s TikTok creator data. Search creators by niche, follower count and verification, pull per-creator stats and engagement, and find the ~4% who list a business contact — the API behind this study.