Selena Gomez Celebrates Becoming First Woman to 400 Million Instagram Followers

Over the weekend, The “Solely Murders within the Constructing” star achieved a brand new file for any girl on the platform by amassing a surprising 400 million followers. She can also be the most-followed American. Selena celebrated the achievement with a brand new put up on Sunday, sitting fairly at 401 million (and we are able to presume rising!).

“Wishing I may hug all 400 million of you,” Selena captioned a carousel of photos of her interacting along with her legions of followers over time. Earlier than that, she was sharing love for fellow artist Miley Cyrus to her 400 million followers.

Sharing a fresh-faced selfie late final week, Selena captioned it merely “Violet Chemistry,” a title from Miley’s newest album, “Limitless Summer season Trip.” She additionally shared a present she’d lately acquired from “Queen” Miley.

On her Instagram Tales, Selena revealed that Miley had despatched her samples from her collaboration with Dolce Glow. Miley re-shared it to her personal Tales, commenting to Selena, “You glow naturally, however I needed to ship you the ESV X DG collab as a result of I LOVE YOU.”

Miley and greater than 400 million Selena followers have been loving the multi-hyphenated expertise’s return to the platform. Selena’s return to the highest started along with her return to controlling her personal IG feed in January.

She shared that she’d deleted the app from her telephone greater than 4 years prior for psychological well being causes, handing over management of the platform to her workforce. “At one level Instagram turned my entire world, and it was actually harmful,” she advised InStyle.

She shared extra perception into her life and psychological well being struggles in her critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ documentary “My Thoughts & Me, which launched in November 2022. The unflinching movie lined roughly six years of her life rising to the highest and struggling within the highlight, finally canceling her 2016 tour and checking into rehab.

Her comeback was big, with “Lose You to Love Me” giving her her first US primary in 2019, {followed} shortly by her Covid-smash sequence “Selena + Chef” and her lead function on Hulu’s “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” which premiered in 2021. The latter turned the community’s most-watched comedy premiere ever and has been nominated for a slew of awards.

Whereas Gomez maintains a wholesome follower lead over everybody else in the USA, she trails Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi and Portuguese footballer legend Cristiano Ronaldo.

This is how the Prime 15  most-followed people at the moment stacks up — for the file, Miley could be very respectably in 18th place with 201 million)

1. Cristiano Ronaldo (563 million)
2. Lionel Messi (443 million)
3. Selena Gomez (401 million)
4. Kylie Jenner (382 million)
5. Dwayne Johnson (369 million)
6. Ariana Grande (361 million)
7. Kim Kardashian (349 million)
8. Beyoncé (301 million)
9. Khloé Kardashian (298 million)
10. Justin Bieber (282 million)
11. Kendall Jenner (280 million)
12. Taylor Swift (250 million)
13. Virat Kohli [cricketer] (241 million)
14. Jennifer Lopez (238 million)
15. Kourtney Kardashian (215 million)