The Most Liked Reel on Instagram in 2025 (Updated List)
Subhasree Nag, 6 hours ago
Instagram Reels have the most vibrant place for self-expression, including silent comedies and breathtaking dance moves. The most viewed reel on Instagram includes food blogs, an original music composition, or great travel.
A great 91% of adult Instagram users view visual content every week. Thus, making Reels the main place for creativity and entertainment. For the young users and Gen-Z, it is the fun of dance challenges that can easily make ordinary persons overnight sensations and set a new trend.
The most followed account has remained to be the official Instagram under the Meta platform with a mass following of 682 million. With more entertaining social media arriving. Instagram Reels will change the way one consumes their content as well as even their online creativity and expression.
Now, let’s dig into the most-viewed reels on Instagram.
Here is a list of the top 15+ reels that have the most views on Instagram:
SL No. | Username | Title of the Reel | No. Of Viewers |
1 | hardikpandya93 and battlegroundsmobilein_official | Take the shot’ | 1.6 billion+ |
2 | battlegroundsmobilein_official | Papa ke funde hamesha hit hote hain, bhai | 1.4 billion+ |
3 | https://www.instagram.com/battlegroundsmobilein_official/ | ‘Play Pure’ | 877 million+ |
4 | battlegroundsmobilein_official | Dost ki baat maano and flex your new phone, bhai! | 840 million+ |
5 | riswan_freestyle | Has anyone seen the ball? | 554 million+ |
6 | samsungmobile | Sure we can send you that, #jhope! | 330 million+ |
7 | aurelien.froissart | The CUTEST thing ever happened at the END of the video | 301 million+ |
8 | cristiano | A present for my family | 300 million+ |
9 | ishowspeed | wwe is real | 300 million+ |
10 | lorikbun and benedikt.sigmund | Samsung mobile | 299 million+ |
11 | khaby00 | Guys how many times it happen to you? | 289 million+ |
12 | samsungmobile | There’s no dark side of the moon with the #GalaxyS23 Ultra. | 298 million+ |
13 | georginagio and cristiano | ����♀️����♂️�� | 288 million+ |
14 | khaby00 | Btw I love this kid | 272 million+ |
15 | rohiiits | I am So Sorry | 254 million+ |
16 | khaby00 | Learn from Khaby | 250 million+ |
17 | khaby00 | Did you get the point? | 242 million + |
18 | khaby00 | Ops | 238 million+ |
19 | khaby00 | I had the impression that the fish was still alive. | 231 million+ |
In September 2023, the BGMI collaborated with Indian ace cricketer Hardik Pandya for a promotional campaign.
The reel is a video camera point-of-view because it follows Pandya as he gets ready for a photoshoot.
Hardik claims his arrival to the battleground world, all set to win man-of-the-match here also.
See the high-voltage reel and experience the energy of the titan coming to play against the mobile game.
With this promotional Instagram reel at the top of the list as the most viewed Instagram reel with an average view of more than a billion views.
It’s a promotional video by BGMI” with the instagram caption “Flex Your New Phone by BGMI”. The ad is on the lines of ‘carry the game BGMI on your mobile’.
The son tries to showcase his new mobile to his father who is very busy, setting up a table. But no proper response is provided by the father.
He inquired of his father whether BGMI was absent since he was holding the table stable with his phone. His father responded negatively.
The reel contains several specifications, backgrounds, and simulations on BGMI. Finally, the video requires calling by asking the people to take their phones out if they have the trending application.
This video has been identified. Rather, it is one of the most viewed reels on Instagram since it features more than 1.4 billion views with over 3 million likes.
High-energy actor Ranveer Singh collaborated on a great Instagram reel where a spot boy narrates a scene to him while standing behind him.
And the way the actor responds confuses everyone! And that is absolutely something that fans expect him to do, right?
But wait a minute! There is a reason why he caused confusion. It appears that he was too engrossed to play the BGMI on his phone!
He admits right in the beginning of the video that Singh is an addict of BGMI. His winning smile and how cool he speaks with his words saying, “Get ready to play pure” makes this video clip a more entertaining video for its viewers and gamers as well.
One more interesting video by BGMI, which asks to show off your phone, needs to be included in the five reels most viewed on Instagram.
Two friends depict a show-off scene while standing on the balcony celebrating Diwali. Where one of the friends opens his phone for his other friend and then drops it saying that it is useless.
According to him, it has no value without that BGMI app. It becomes even more like an “earlier “Flex Your Phone” clip.
This completes the video of a rundown of this BGMI whose features are the latest ones and graphics excellent with dynamic games and customizable settings.
This most viewed of his reels busted a Guinness World Record held by Muhammad Rizwan of Instagram @riswan_freestyle against Waterfall.
The video, running to 30 seconds so far has secured over 491 million views in the clip as reported.
Riswan hails from Kerala, India. It is just unbelievable how the viral popularity of freestyle football content on social media can be proved through evidence that would surely become inevitable-like in this case skill of the boy.
Of the several reels that have done very well for him, “Has anyone seen the ball?” is a five-second clip with an unforgettable reaction where a football goes behind a waterfall.
Indeed, the house of Samsung won another win when it rolled out this advertisement video featuring BTS member J-Hope, titled “Sure we can send you that.”
The reel, which showed only J-Hope taking a selfie with his charming smile, went viral and braved more than 320 million views-the most-viewed Instagram reel ever.
The answer underlines the huge global popularity of BTS and the strong support from the fan base, or the ARMY. The reel shows how the group still leads in music and has a strong followership on social media.
If you are a soulful music lover and are looking for such songs on social media then most certainly you would be aware of Aurélien Froissart, an extremely talented piano maestro, who is quite a rage all over the internet for his superb talent.
He accepts requests from random people and interprets them into stunning piano melodies. It is quite often in collaboration with fellow creative audience members in a particular scene.
Surely, one of the most memorable videos is when a little girl asks him to play “Carol of the Bells.”
When Froissart starts playing, the little girl joins in with her violin, and what comes out of both of them is such a beautiful performance that shocks the whole audience.
This video surpassed 300 million views, proof of Froissart’s popularity and the special magic quality his music possessed.
The sports figure in the most Instagram followers is Cristiano Ronaldo, with 644 million subscribers.
In this respect, the football legend shares a number of candid photos of his children and girlfriend from time to time.
His most viewed reels are the jubilations after YouTube awarded him a golden play button for crossing the 1 million subscribers limit.
This is a funny video where Ronaldo introduces the play button with his kids playing and trying to open it while giving his definition of it.
He is seen thanking his “SIUUUbscribers! ” For showing that indeed, he enjoys such a beautiful bond with the viewers in the caption.
Some of the most viewed reels on Instagram include IShowSpeed’s WWE reel that has recently been going viral.
In the clip, YouTuber IShowSpeed was dressed in a Prime drink outfit and started shouting out the name of Randy Orton with lots of energy.
Then he left for the challenge with the outfit, but he started to become very obnoxious since people were cheering him on. The reel managed to garner more than 14 million likes.
The mobile work from home and at the same time moving around enabled newer experiences of traveling journeys, lifestyle, and fashion and traveling content creation to adopt this lifestyle into a very novel form by embracing that bold idea with posting in a very daring Instagram Reel.
When he is skiing down the snow-covered mountain, his cooperating friend is lying on the snow so that he may have a chair to sit on so that he can take a work call. This bold act should arouse mid-week altitude and bring the zeal to travel.
This Guinness World Record for the most viewed Instagram reel called “Learn from Khaby,” was where viewers cried along to a comedy skit featuring the silent comedy sensation, Khaby Lame.
The video humorously spoke of the general fear of electricity as it went on to show how Khaby checked and rechecked his unplugged iron time and again, a perturbed look etched onto his face and unbelievable.
He even clicks selfies with the dead phone to keep himself calm. It is such a very relatable scene that this video has become one of the most liked ones among several.
Which have crossed over 12 million likes and counting, because this reel puts Khaby Lame at the number one position on the list of silent comedy kings of Instagram.
A feature of Galaxy S23 Ultra is the one that shines with its features as a star for Instagram Reels. The advert says:
“There is no dark side of the moon with the Galaxy S23 Ultra.
Capture your night skies and post with Galaxy.”
That is, this mobile can capture the night sky so perfectly that you cannot see the dark side of the moon!
It captures the Galaxy at 100x zoom. This allows one to take beautiful photos of the moon and in high quality without losing quality.
The last part of the reel also encourages people to experiment with various visual and design features in Samsung’s Galaxy S23.
Another popular Instagram reel is that of Georgina Rodriguez. Who has collaborated with her boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo – it is a soothing yoga video.
It is shot outside a yoga room but from below at an angle. In this, the two are found in specific poses and stretches.
Such interesting content speaks for itself and thereby explains the count of likes crossing 6.8 million likes.
Khaby Lame is very popular as his Instagram reels fetched millions of views, and the content was so relatable and funny that it made the audiences fall in love with him.
In one of the popular 2022 reels. He found himself in a funny situation at the traffic signal while sitting in his car.
He smilingly puts up his hand and waves at the boy on the bike but that look of the kid does not thrill him.
That funny meeting into millions of views with over 20 million likes putting Lame his by-name name in the funny world of comedy on Instagram.
Indian content creator Rohit Sharma with his wife mocking the routine duties a married couple faces.
In one of the humorous threats issued in one of the 2023 reels, the couple threatens each other with their favorite items.
Sharma is made to break his wife’s lipstick when she goes about acting as if she were flinging his Air Jordans out of the window. When she “acts” as if she is flinging the sneakers out. He instantly breaks her lipstick.
Now, this was a huge blunder, and he knew it at that very moment. The end reaction is guaranteed to make one LOL.
Another most viewed Instagram reel is that of a woman who dramatically maneuvers in what seems to be a very narrow lane and pulls her hair up as if she were struggling to fit.
That was a plot for her to show her body because the lane was wide enough for her to walk straight.
Khaby Lame makes light of jokes as he tries to leave through a door that would be his size. He gets off from touching the door even when he fits perfectly through it.
And Khaby would shine brightly in whatever mundane situations turn into what is funny for the worldwide audiences in view.
In this video of Khaby Lame, a woman walks on some elevated ground when, at one moment, she and the device she is walking on collapse.
Pure comedic genius by Khaby Lame was the response to this video. He did a funny reaction video in which he had a tray of food in his hand.
And started dancing and intentionally caused the tray and its food to spill onto the ground.
This weird twist of fate has made this video attract as many as 242 million views. All thanks to the skills of Khaby in making funny a mundane activity.
Khaby Lame strikes again, this time as the 6th most-viewed Instagram reel. It is just another demonstration of his strange sense of humor and creativity.
He did not even react to something. He made a reel of a woman trying to drink milk through a rolled paper almost 20 times larger in diameter than a straw.
As expected, she blows air to try and drink milk but spills all over her face. Khaby does an awesome job blowing air from the bottom where it spills while spilling some on him in perfect harmony to have a messy laugh.
In this reel, Khaby Lame is giving a very hilarious parody about one wrong attempt of a fish catch.
A man tried to catch a fish but ended up splashing the whole water body while thrashing the dead fish that he had not known even was already dead.
Khaby very easily repeats the same by trying to fry some nuggets in a pan, but he starts pounding on it because he thinks that this fish is still alive.
He captioned the video as “I thought this fish was alive”. This funny video turned out to be a viral video and got around 11.5 million likes as Khaby had excellent senses and creativity about bringing such episodic funny matter on the floors.
The most-watched Instagram reel is proof of the power of good content. Creativity, authenticity, and the images of social media marketing are all causes for its success.
Creativity, authenticity, and listening to the tastes of your audience are the secrets to achieving fantastic success on Instagram.
So go ahead and create your viral moments and let your content shine in this digital age!
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A self-proclaimed Swiftian, Instagram-holic, and blogger, Subhasree eats, breathes, and sleeps pop culture. When she is not imagining dates with Iron Man on Stark Tower (yes, she has the biggest crush on RDJ, which she won’t admit), she can be seen tweeting about the latest trends. Always the first one to break viral news, Subhasree is addicted to social media, and leaves out no opportunity of blogging about the same. She is our go-to source for the latest algorithm updates and our resident editor.