$3.23 million—This is the figure that Cristiano Ronaldo earns for each Instagram post according to a study last year. And who knows? This number might have witnessed a remarkable surge, considering he remains the most followed person on the Meta-based platform with over 636 million followers. But the game of the digital world is about to change forever as Ronaldo has officially entered into the foray of YouTube. In fact, within just a few hours of the debut of his channel, UR Cristiano, on the video-sharing platform, he has set not one but seven remarkable milestones that put over three records of MrBeast at risk of being beaten.

The first one is the most subscribers gained in a month, 28,749,540 to be precise, which MrBeast did just this June 2024. The second record that remains at risk is the Most subscribers gained in 30 days. This record was made by the renowned internet personality from a period of 5/30/2024 8:20 pm – 6/29/2024 8:19 pm UTC, where he acquired over 29,004,703 subscribers.

Last but not least, is the record of the fastest YouTube channel to gain 50,000,000 subscribers, a feat that James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson a.k.a MrBeast achieved in 79 days, between 5/15/2024 – 8/02/2024. Interestingly, Ronaldo can easily break all these aforementioned milestones, considering the astonishing the 39-year-old has achieved in the span of 24 hours!

He first set the record for gaining the most subscribers in an hour, with an astonishing 1,270,000 new followers. Next, his YouTube channel became the fastest ever to reach 10,000,000 subscribers in just around 12 hours, that too in the non-promotion distinction as well. Additionally, UR Cristiano also became the fastest YT channel to hit 1,000,000 subscribers in just 1 hour and 29 minutes.

Aside from being the fastest to gain 1,000,000 subscribers, achieving this feat in just 47 minutes, Ronaldo’s channel hit 100,000 subscribers in a mere 22 minutes. Furthermore, in a single day, he amassed over 16,000,000 subscribers, again without any promotion. Interestingly, all this achievement somehow gives him an edge in the GOAT debate as well!

Aside from eclipsing MrBeast, Cristiano Ronaldo did what Lionel Messi couldn’t do in his entire life!

What Cristiano Ronaldo recently accomplished by launching his YouTube channel, Lionel Messi had already done long ago on January 3, 2006. Since then, the Argentinian superstar has managed to accumulate just 2.33 million subscribers, despite posting 207 videos.

However, CR7 has overshadowed its long-term rival in some truly unimaginable ways. The Portuguese superstar needed just two hours to surpass Lionel Messi’s 18-year-old YouTube channel, amassing over 15.2 million subscribers in just a single day.

Interestingly, the most popular video on Messi’s channel is an ad for Dubai Expo 2020, with over 4.5 million views, 69k likes, and 2.8k comments. In contrast, Ronaldo’s first video, posted shortly after launching his channel, has already racked up an astonishing 9.8 million views, 1.1 million likes, and 60k comments. Also, there’s literally a Ronaldo GOAT button in the comments, which has garnered 39k likes. Talk about popularity!

Cristiano Ronaldo may have been a bit late in launching his YouTube channel, but considering the surge in numbers, that’s hardly an issue now. Other creators like MrBeast should be thankful that this idea didn’t occur to the former Real Madrid star earlier. Otherwise, we would be having a completely different discussion today.