Addison Rae attends Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. Chart Stats: She has had five No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 14 total entries on that chart between EPs and LPs. In the past, he's been associated with the Hype House influencer collective, and in June came under scrutiny for past tweets that contained racist, sexist, and homophobic statements. Zoey 101 fans might remember Dustin Brooks, Zoey's child prodigy younger brother. Power Miss: Not getting on Riverdale. The 27-year-old artist has been able to turn professional thanks to a sponsorship from energy drink brand Moster Energy. Gray has been a frequent part of TikTok's lip-dubbing trends and viral dance challenges and has garnered nominations at the Teen Choice Awards and People's Choice Awards for her social media presence. Child-Star Highlights: Holt went from aDisney XD show to a DCOM and finally to her own comedy series, making music along the way. Child-Star Highlights: Being one third of the Jonas Brothers band (20052013, 2019hopefully forever) and starring in the eponymous Disney series Jonas. Child-Star Highlights: Duff was the one and only Lizzie McGuire for Disney, and the eponymous show spawned a very profitable TV empire and feature film for the studio. He also managed to parlay TikTok fame into chart success, as his hit "Savage Love" and its dance were born on the app, after he built a song around Jawsh 685's "Laxed (Siren Beat)". Privacy Policy and Power Move: The face-to-desk panic attack in Hereditary alone should secure acting work for him for years. Some of the most popular creators have millions of followers who watch them lip-sync, dance, and produce comedy skits. The Filipino-American has collaborated with stars including James Charles and Tyga on TikTok. On the flip side, it has kept her super-famous even in her creatively lean years, and according to Business Insider, she commands a quote of $800,000 for a sponsored Instagram post. (She has had seven entries on that chart overall.) 23 on the Billboard 200. Adult Highlights: She has made her way to Disneys teen channel, Freeform, playing Ava Jalali in the canceled Pretty Little Liars spinoff, The Perfectionists. He surpassed the previous most-followed account, Charli D'Amelio, on 22 June 2022. Getty Images for Streamy Awards/Andrew Toth, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Kevin also has two kids, which is nice for him. Who wants some gym motivation? Power Move: Becoming extremely popular and recognizable as much if not more so for the idea of Zendaya as her actual output. Child-Star Highlights: The quirky girl Dylan Sprouse crushes on in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, then the incomparable Sharpay Evans in High School Musical. Sucker, the lead single from Happiness Begins, was the bands first to hit No. Child-Star Highlights: Justice went from being a recurring character on Zoey 101 and iCarly to having her own musical show, Victorious. And hey, shes also a New York Times best-selling author. More than half of the top TikTok videos are comedy, so Id post things and be like, OK, they dont respond to this, but they seem to like that, and learned what made it tick," the singer explained how TikTok "resurrected" his career. it's Nickelodeon's The Thundermans back in action as original series stars return for newly-greenlit movie sequel The Thundermans Return. "You can't please everyone, but we try to adapt in a way where people enjoy our content.". That popularity has helped make her the highest-earning TikTok star (and a friend of the Kardashians), while the 20-year-old has landed a role in the upcoming remake of She's All That. The first video on his TikTok account is dated to December 2018, and in the time since, he's become one of the app's most-followed stars by posting videos that frequently feature members of his family and focus on dance and comedy. Hancher, originally from Canada, announced in 2019 that she was joining Team 10, the Jake Paul-founded influencer collective, but as Seventeen reported she later left the group. She posts everyday life in the Ramsay household to her 8.6 million followers, and even once pranked her dad! Chart Stats: Her highest Hot 100 hit was Freak the Freak Out from the Victorious soundtrack. Adult Highlights: Though her music career has stalled, she was in Summer Nights with Lana Condor and Analeigh Tipton. Of course, JoJo uses TikTok for her dancing videos, but also came out as LGBTQ+ on the app. 1. Notable Deals: At the height of their first wave of fame, Kevin appeared with his brothers in ads for brands like Target and Xbox 360. [1] The most-followed individual on the platform is Khaby Lame, with over 153 million followers. Power Move: Bitch Im Bella Thorne, which really cemented her DGAF status. [6][7] They deleted their account in March 2019, citing privacy concerns and their loss of interest in the platform. Bottom Line: After spearheading his family band for most of his childhood, the youngest Jonas managed to create a noteworthy career on his own with both Nick Jonas & the Administration and a solo stint. She's amassed 70 million likes with 24.4 million followers on the platform. Avani Gregg, 18, is one of the several teens on this list who shot into the TikTok elite in 2020 thanks to the launch of the collective Hype House, a group of up-and-coming creators who often collaborated on videos and viral challenges thanks to a shared house in Los Angeles. She also put out two EPs and was an outstanding high-school mean girl in The Duff. Bottom Line: Lovato has dealt with a lot. Croes told Business Insider that since starting to make videos in 2015, the brothers have been forced to change and adapt in order to maintain popularity on the platform. He was nominated for a Kids Choice Award in 2016 and 2017. Power Move: Chilling in the suburbs with his family while his brothers kept the Jonas fires burning through their solo projects proved he could leave fame behind and pick it back up again whenever he wants. Justin Bieber promotes his music and his everyday life with his wife Hailey on TikTok. She also married (and divorced) a Hemsworth and flirted onstage in onesies with Ariana Grande. Terms of Service apply. Power Miss: The Disney show Jonas and breaking up the Jonas Brothers. Adult Highlights: Lovato has steadily matured from kids-bop sensation to a Grammy-nominated very adult pop star, digging into heavy themes like her struggles with addiction and mental health in her music. Shes an original member of the Taylor Swift Squad inner circle. 20K. Carpenter made her Broadway debut as Cady Heron in Mean Girls in March 2020, but her run was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable Deals: Duff has had a lot of charitable partnerships over the years with various childrens and animal-rights organizations. Grande also holds the record for having the most concurrent songs in the Top 40 at one time with 11. Notable Deals: Ari has partnered with Reebok and Starbucks (she had her own goddamn drink, the Cloud Macchiato) and also has a line of perfumes. Watch popular content from the following creators: YVNG MEATBALL(@yvngmeatball), Yuna(@yuna_cee), phylisha (@phylofthepast), DisneyTerell(@disneyterell), nickelodeon stars(@secret.nickelodeon.stars), Austin Sperow(@raptok.ft.aps), krtb Ml(@skreetbullmosley_), WILLYHOON(@willyhoon), Bri(@justbri . Its essentially this generations High School Musical. She also put out the song Cool For The Summer, which was just an extended metaphor for going down on a girl. The following table lists the accounts that were once the most-followed on TikTok, excluding the official TikTok account. Amy Sussman/KCA2021/Getty Images for Nickelodeon Addison Rae, a TikTok star with 78.6 million followers, came under fire in December as the new movie that she's starring in, He's All That. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is here to rock your morning and pump you to exercise. He began posting on TikTok before his father appeared on "Tiger King," and his first video on the app is dated to September 2019. As a solo artist, he has cracked the top 100 seven times and had two albums break into the top 10 on the albums chart. Most recently, @natalieeab paired it with "purple flame" camera. Published on Feb 15, 2021. The Nickelodeon star launched her YouTube channel, "Its JoJo Siwa," in 2015. Chart Stats: Both Naked Brothers Band soundtracks peaked at No. Some teens take a step back after working throughout. Shes got the whole worlds attention now. All I Want, her TikTok viral love song from HSMTMTS, reached No. Power Move: Dropping her breakup ballad before co-star and rumored ex Joshua Bassett could drop his. The two brothers grew up in Aruba, where life was "pure and simple," then started to grow their fanbase on Musical.ly in 2015. Adult Highlights: Well, shes not exactly an adult yet, but the 17-year-old Filipina American just released her first solo single, drivers license to viral success. The new miniseries attempts to faithfully re-create the reading experience, but as with any adaptation, certain details dont make the cut. Adult Highlights: She executive produced Netflixs teen drama 13 Reasons Why and got decapitated in Jim Jarmuschs zombie movie The Dead Dont Die in the years following her Spring Breakers breakout. TikTok star who gained fame in 2020 after her story about exposing a cheating husband went viral. The 27-year-old from Aruba is known for his short comedic videos and lip syncs on the app. Credit: YouTube May 2016 During. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. In May 2019, she released her first album in ten years, Symptoms, and she was in the cast of Carols Second Act. He can sing, he can dance, he can crack jokes, and most importantly, he proudly shows his cooking in front of his 44.8 million followers on TikTok. Notable Deals: No active deals, but she isnt afraid of a little Instagram sponcon. Who Is Ariana Grande, Really? She ascends higher in the celebrity firmament with each album, and she became the president of the United States of Pop after rapidly turning the tragic bombing at her Manchester concert into a massive benefit show for the community. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Charli D'Amelio attends Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. After launching her channel in June 2019, the 16-year-old from Connecticut rocketed to the top of TikTok in just a matter of months through choreographed dances to viral songs. She recently told Insider she was planning on focusing more on her career in music, which she's been producing since 2017. Note that this list consists of independent creators who blew up online thanks to TikTok or its predecessor, Musical.ly. Mrz 2023 um 16:00 Uhr. Her debut album, Expectations, was released in March of that year, and she acquired many bras that had been thrown onstage during her tour. Cyrus did the second (never forget Miley, whats good?), and while she did apologize for her privilege blindness, it took her a few years. Avneet Kaur first emerged on the scene as a contestant on an Indian reality dance competition, but has since become a popular actress and choreographer. In 2010, she starred in Hellcats with Aly Michalka. The couple's YouTube channel about their family has more than 10 million subscribers, and their two children age 6 and 7 months each have Instagram followings of over 1 million. She also entered the Christmas-romance hall of fame with Netflixs The Knight Before Christmas, The Princess Switch, and The Princess Switch: Switched Again and had some standout moments in the live-TV musicals Grease: Live and Rent: Live. Referred to as a "real-life Tarzan," Kody Antle has become one of TikTok's most popular accounts by posting videos from the Myrtle Beach Safari, which frequently feature tigers and other animals. Her videos often feature fellow TikTok star Lucky Dancer. 1. Breaking down the contenders in the seasons most unpredictable Oscar race. Her most recent video was uploaded on June 29, the day that TikTok was banned in India. Child-Star Highlights: Making five albums with the Jonas Brothers between 2006 and 2010, appearances in both Disney Channel Camp Rock movies, and being the JoBro with the least-hectic public image. Steady. Duffs stardom also made the Disney original Cadet Kelly a huge hit. Here We Go Again from 2009 is the only album so far to hit No. Notable Deals: Does a Taylor Swift endorsement count? Lucas and Marcus Dobre are a pair of 21-year-old twins whose TikTok videos comprise comedic skits, pranks, gymnastics, and vlogs. In fact, the internet played a big part in Bieber's career. You played yourselves. Riyaz (@riyaz.14), who is from India, is the most followed TikToker not based in the United States. Disney/Nick Stars (@disneystars99) on TikTok | 5.4M Likes. Chart Stats: drivers license debuted at No. In a sea of talent, whos going to make it all the way to Britney-like icon status? Chart Stats: Carsons highest place on the charts came from the Descendants soundtracks Rotten to the Core.. 19. Power Move: Gomez has been pretty clear about the pressure her humongous social-media following puts on her. Child-Star Highlights: Wolff starred with his older brother, Nat, in the Nick series The Naked Brothers Band, and then the brothers recorded as the band Nat & Alex Wolff. After Dax Shepard asked her about her musical chairs relationship situation. Another traditional celeb with TikTok clout is singer Jason Derulo (@jasonderulo), who has racked up 44.7 million followers thanks to his viral prank videos. hated rival of beauty blogger Tati Westbrooks nutraceutical brand. By. Chart Stats: All three full-length albums she is featured on, from Liv and Maddie and The Descendants, charted on the Billboard Top 200; the first Descendants soundtrack even reached No. Power Miss: Ending her music career just as co-star Grande was beginning hers. Junya, also known by his TikTok handle @junya1gou, appears to have started posting on TikTok in mid-2019. Arishfa Khan is a 17-year-old creator from India who got her start as a child actress at age 9. Blake Michael and G. Hannelius confirmed that, yes, they are in fact that guy and girl from Dog With. Chart Stats: Two Jonas Brothers albums have reached No. Hudson, who goes by Lilhuddy online, is perhaps just as well known for dating Charli D'Amelio, the 15-year-old who recently took over as the most followed creatoron TikTok. A post shared by Bella Poarch (@bellapoarch). D'Amelio signed a contract with a major talent agency alongside her younger sister in late 2019, and has released two singles "Be Happy" and "One Whole Day (feat. Illusionist Zach (@zachking) was a YouTuber and Vine star when he began posting to TikTok in 2016. Dominik, perhaps better known by her handle @domelipa, is 19 years old according to online celebrity tracking site Famous Birthdays. Power Move: Grande released not one but two critically acclaimed albums in six months (Sweetener and Thank U, Next) after weathering a string of personal heartbreaks in 2018, but her handling of the Manchester bombing and its aftermath was a demonstration par excellence of how to marshal your A-list power and resources in the best possible way. Bottom Line: The song Ready or Not lives on as a 2010s bop, but thats about it. He and the bros were also big in the Camp Rock universe. Ariana Grande, on the other hand, usually reposts fans who recreate her iconic dances and music videos. Former Nickelodeon star Lindsey Shaw gets blasted for mocking a viral TikTok trend from Black creators Photo courtesy of @notnotcandace/TikTok Lindsey Shaw, a former Nickelodeon actress from the show Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, is under fire after mocking a viral TikTok made by Black content creators. She then recorded her 2012 debut album, Hello My Name Is . Brent (@brentrivera) was initially big on Vine but is just as successful now on TikTok, where he has 37.6 million followers. A post shared by Burak Ozdemir (@cznburak). Power Miss: His first solo album before starting DNCE, called Fastlife. He posts a variety of lifestyle, vlog, dance, and lip-sync content, and is a member of creator collective Priv Crew. While some of Poarch's personal details like her real name and age remain unclear, she's become one of TikTok's biggest stars. Power Miss: The Mansonsploitation movie The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) and that time she and her then-boyfriend Jason Walsh wore Native American costumes for Halloween. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. Chart Stats: Two of Thornes songs have climbed into the Billboard Hot 100. Notable Deals: Thorne considers herself a mogul and has her own makeup and apparel lines. Child-Star Highlights: Hudgens helped reinvent the Disney machine for a new era of young stars with the High School Musical franchise. Back in 2015, Vulture assessed which of the new Disney/Nickelodeon class had leveraged their child-star fame into powerhouse careers as adults. He also made his directing debut on the. Power Miss: Ari came under scrutiny with the release of 7 Rings for the songs resemblance to tracks from artists like Princess Nokia and Soulja Boy, and also for cultural appropriation. Adult Highlights: She appeared in NBCs broadcast of Hairspray Live! Notable Deals: She has been known to do social spon for brands like Fiat and SugarBearHair, the hated rival of beauty blogger Tati Westbrooks nutraceutical brand. Her most recent video was posted on June 30, the day after TikTok was banned in India. McCurdy first appeared on Zoey 101 in 2005. TikTok, a viral video-sharing social media platform, has birthed several teen sensations, like Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae. Shes respected by auteurs such as Denis Villeneuve. A Mexican TikTok star, he appears to have started posting on the app when in 2017 (when it was Musical.ly) and posts primarily dance and lip-sync videos. Breathe Out. Nickelodeon Network /Courtesy Everett Collection, TikTok/Paul Butcher / Via tiktok.com 14. She has landed covers for American Vogue, W, Variety, Vanity Fair, and The Hollywood Reporter almost entirely on the strength of a superhero supporting role, which demonstrates a pretty insane amount of sauce. 1, 1, and 2, respectively. Bottom Line: Duff and Cyrus were instrumental in creating the new wave of Disney stardom, and while Duff may not have the global reach of an Ariana Grande, she has the best consistent acting gig of anyone on this list. Chart Stats: Outside of her HSM hits, Tisdales song He Said She Said peaked at No. Notable Deals: You see that moisturized skin, and you just know youre looking at an Olay spokesperson. The 28-year-old artist and actor - best known for his roles in films such as Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Martial Arts Kid and The Walking Dead - was found having passed away on 19 February in his apartment in Nyack, New York. Chart Stats: She has one song on the Hot 100 and one album in the Billboard 200. Notable Deals: Zendaya received a coveted face of CoverGirl deal in 2016 and has partnered with Chi Hair Care. Her husband, Cole, is a former Vine star known as part of a dancing trio dubbed "Dem White Boyz.". His musical work for Austin & Ally has gone Top 200 twice, with one of the shows singles making it into the Hot 100. Notable Deals: So far, his biggest deal was a Danimals ad he did with Bella Thorne. The pair of brothers rose to fame together with dance content and by association with the Hype House early in 2020. Not to mention her part-time gig carrying the Hotel Transylvania animated film franchise. Fey accepted the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Power Move: Segueing from Disney star to Freeform star. Related: Jason Derulo Makes More On TikTok Than From His Music Career. Bottom Line: Zendaya has had success in music, is generating more and more heat in film and prestige TV, and is a fashion-industry darling. The most followed traditional celebrity on TikTok is Will Smith (@willsmith), with the Hollywood star and rapper racking up 52.1 million followers. Baby Ariel, aka Ariel Martin, was the first individual to surpass the 20-million-followers mark on Musical.ly, and her fame has only grown from there. On a smaller scale, they were once slinging Breakfast Breaks foods. Sameeksha Sud is known for her comedic sketches alongside two other India TikTok stars, and the three of them altogether run a successful YouTube channel called TeenTigada. Notable Deals: Hudgens had a multiyear endorsement deal with Red by Mark Ecko footwear, which was instrumental in blessing us with the Skechers-filled video for Sneaker Night. She has also done ads for Candies and Neutrogena. Now, the star is enjoying her popularity on TikTok where she often collaborates with other creators and covers songs to her 25.6 million followers. and starred as Cher Horowitz in an Off Broadway run of Clueless: The Musical. Again. We're totally obsessed with Drake Bell 's throwback videos on TikTok. Undercover, the latter of which she produced. The theme song to True Jackson VP, a 2008 Nickelodeon show starring Keke Palmer, has changed meme format a few times on TikTok. Shania Twain Gives Rare Update on Her Ex-Husband and Ex-BFF. Adult Highlights: Wolff swept the teen romantic comedies for a time with Stuck in Love, The Fault in Our Stars, and Paper Towns. Despite her struggles behind the scenes, she has consistently made chart-topping music and tried to turn her hardships into positive lessons for her fans and followers. "TikTok was more of a dance app, and I tried a challenge or two. "Technically I would say that I am pansexual, because thats how I have always been my whole life is just like, my human is my human," she said. Over the past few years, social media has changed the way we determine a celebrity's status. By follower count, she remains one of the most popular accounts on the app. Picture: Disney Channel / Courtesy: Everett, DISNEY CHANNEL via Alamy, Craig Sjodin/Disney Channel via Getty Image 1) Selena Gomez Birthday: July 22nd We all fell in love with Selena Gomez in Wizards of Waverly Place and she's remained in our lives ever since. Adult Highlights: He was actually really, really good playing the high-school-age titular serial killer in the movie My Friend Dahmer, and he played Kiernan Shipkas normie boyfriend in Netflixs The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Child-Star Highlights: Lynch starred in the Disney series Austin & Ally as well as the Disney Channels Teen Beach Movie. "Twins are the closest you can get to someone without it being a couple thing.". No big deal that the original is by her godmother, Dolly Parton. And while they might feel like a burden, those 204 million Selenators on Instagram will make sure everything she does stays pop-culturally relevant for as long as she wants it to. She has since gained traction on multiple social media platforms and has worked as a brand ambassador for the Savage . WireImage for City Publicity/GC Images/Gregg DeGuire. She starred in Father of the Year with David Spade and Netflixs Merry Happy Whatever with Ashley Tisdale. A Quick Catch-up. Adult Highlights: Miley is a noted activist for LGBT youth, and she has managed to spin up a wildly eclectic music career from her Disney beginnings. Cameron was also part of a pop duo called the Girl and the Dreamcatcher, but that lasted about as long as she dated the other half of said duo. Her name is being floated around as an Oscars favorite for her quarantine film Malcolm & Marie. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Chart Stats: Gomez has had success in multiple musical iterations: There were the Disney years, Selena Gomez & the Scene, and her bona fide solo work.