Selena Gomez Celebrates Turning into First Lady 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 shocking 400 million followers. She can also be the most-followed American. Selena celebrated the achievement with a brand new publish on Sunday, sitting fairly at 401 million (and we will presume rising!).

“Wishing I might hug all 400 million of you,” Selena captioned a carousel of photographs of her interacting together with her legions of followers through the years. 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, “Infinite Summer season Trip.” She additionally shared a present she’d not too long ago acquired from “Queen” Miley.

On her Instagram Stories, Selena revealed that Miley had despatched her samples from her collaboration with Dolce Glow. Miley re-shared it to her personal Stories, 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 together 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 staff. “At one level Instagram grew to become my entire world, and it was actually harmful,” she instructed 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, in the end 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 collection “Selena + Chef” and her lead position on Hulu’s “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” which premiered in 2021. The latter grew to become 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 america, she trails Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi and Portuguese footballer legend Cristiano Ronaldo.

Here is how the Prime 15  most-followed people presently 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)