What Video Has The Record For Most First Day Views? Not MrBeast

You've just uploaded your video to YouTube and now you're watching the view counter crawl upwards as the hours pass.

Will this banger of a video finally be the one that breaks through? Will you get 100K views? Or (gasp!) will be the one that generates 1,000,000 views? You have visions of Adsense millions dancing 💃 in your head.

Maybe this time you'll hit the jackpot and make a boatload of money while your subscribers and others enjoy your content. Maybe you'll see a record on your first day with the most views recorded in one day, but you think that Mr Moneybags, MrBeast probably has that record too.

But, nope. Surprisingly, MrBeast DOESN'T have the video that has received the most views in 24 hours. He did, but then a new gunslinger showed up and stole his thunder.

Below you'll find most of the videos that have the most first day views.

The video with the most views was the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI (bet you forgot about that one, didn't you) that was uploaded December 4, 2023 by Rockstar Games and they got a remarkable 93 million views during that first day as millions of gamers (and GTA content creaters) all got a little chubby thinking that their long-awaited sequel game was FINALLY happening.

But those hopes were crushed and they had to wait til 2025. Here is the trailer in all it's glory.

Well, at least GTA 6 was finally coming in 2025, right? It would be released in 2025 after long 12 year wait (Sept 2013. Wasn't Obama President then and even before PewDiePie or MrBeast showed up? Before Twitch even?).

But, nooooo. Its been pushed back until May 26, 2026. Only another year (ugh!). So it'll be 13 years between version of the game. "Lucky Number 13".

But what was I talking about before I was sidetracked into a mini-rant? Oh yeah, the trailer for GTA VI holds the record for most views in the first 24 hours a YouTube video has received. The 2nd has to be one of MrBeast's I hear you ask.

Again, nope.

The second spot goes again to Rockstar Games with their second trailer for GTA VI which they uploaded May 6, 2025 (and Vice City looks amaze-balls). This video didn't surpass the 1st trailer although its been report the video had 80-plus million views on Youtube in it's first 22 hrs.

The trailer has only (yeah "only" I said) 122 million views on YT for a month or so. Rockstar Games reported the trailer garnered 475 million views total across all platforms (YT, TikTok, Instagram and others) it's first day, so KA-CHING!! The guys at Rockstar got PAID I'm guessing. So if you haven't seen it yet, here ya go.

They probably made enough with those 475 million views to start working on GTA VII, which will be out May 2039. Maybe. Maybe.

Now we get to MrBeast. As you know, this guy Jimmy Donaldson has a little YouTube channel called MrBeast where he uploads videos from time to time and he has done pretty good for himself ("No sh*t, Sherlock" I hear you say) and well, he has a bunch that have had a ton of views (Did I say a ton? I meant a f*ckton of views).

The video below is called "$1 vs $250,000 Vacation!" that MrBeast upload August 12, 2023 and he got 52 million views for this 15 minute video it's first day, but today in June 2025 it sits at a sweet total views of 349 million.

And it's STILL racking up views. Here it is if you haven't seen it yet.

And, to no one's surprise, the next on the list is "7 Days Stranded at Sea" also from MrBeast and it was uploaded August 2023. I've seen so many lame copies of this one by MrBeast wannabes and copycats. This one was HUGE when it came out and has 369 million views for the channel. Even with 369M views it doesn't even crack MrBeast's Top 10 most viewed videos.

One more MrBeast video that got all the views on the day it was released. Of course its "$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!", uploaded way back on November 25, 2021 when Jimmy was a young whippersnapper and not yet the most subscriber youtuber of all time.

There's quite a bit of controversy and MrBeast's version of the South Korean hit show Squid Game, but I won't go into detail in this blogpost about what everyone's said, uploaded or wrote about it but the video caused a sensation, gathering heaps of attention to Jimmy's various YT channels and endeavors.

This is currently MrBeast's most viewed video he's uploaded to his channel and has 815 million views (which is a Zoinks! amount of views).

Remember at the beginning of this post I alluded to you uploading a video and hoping against hope that maybe it might reach a million views someday? Think about uploading something that got 815M views like this video AND IT IS STILL ACCUMULATING VIEWS TODAY, 4 yrs later.

The sky's the limit. Even 10 percent, or even 1 percent of the success of Jimmy's Squid Game video in terms of views, would be a gamechanger if you were monetized with Adsense, sponsored or could turn a profit with some merch.

Even I got big dollar signs in my eyes thinking about it. But hitting it big like this (like MrBeast) is like trapping lightning in a bottle.

There are more videos uploaded to YouTube like that "Deadpool Vs Wolverine" one that made everyone on this platform and others sit up and take notice. Maybe that video you just uploaded will be The Next Big Thing. You don't know until you do it.