--- title: Most Liked Instagram Photo: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez description: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez just surpassed Kendall Jenner as the most-liked Instagram, with a throwback photo posted to Bieber's account. canonical: https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-06T16:45:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:13.128Z og:title: This Is the New Most-Liked Instagram Photo og:description: Jelena forever. og:url: https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the New Most-Liked Instagram Photo twitter:description: Jelena forever. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is the New Most-Liked Instagram Photo  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 6, 2016 4:45 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 6, 2016 4:45 PM UTC Never underestimate the power of young love — it can move mountains, overcome all odds and also bump [Kendall Jenner](http://time.com/4081618/most-influential-teens-2015/) down from having the [most-liked photo on Instagram](http://time.com/3939231/kendall-jenner-instagram-photo/). So strong is the power of young love that it can do all this while no longer being an actual thing — at least, that’s true in the case of former tween dream couple [Selena Gomez](http://time.com/4053719/selena-gomez-revival-interview/?iid=sr-link1) and [Justin Bieber](http://time.com/4270642/justin-bieber-vevo-record/?iid=sr-link7). The “Sorry” singer’s mopey throwback photo of a young [Jelena](http://time.com/4166260/selena-gomez-no-more-justin-beiber-questions/?iid=sr-link4) embracing in a hot tub is now the most-liked pic on the ‘Gram, with a whopping 3.569 million likes and counting — just beating Jenner’s heart-hair Instagram, which clocks in at 3.562 million likes. This is probably aided by the fact that Gomez is now the most-followed person on Instagram with nearly 70 million followers, recently taking the crown from her good friend and leader of the friendship industrial complex squad, [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/4060704/taylor-swift-squad-snl/). Having an army of Beliebers frantically following these young former lovers’ every move on social media doesn’t hurt either. Oh, to be young, in love, and with 3.569 million Instagram likes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/"},"headline":"This Is the New Most-Liked Instagram Photo","datePublished":"2016-05-06T16:45:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:13.128Z","description":"Jelena forever.","url":"https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Justin Bieber","Instagram","Selena Gomez","celebrity","American Voices"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/","name":"This Is the New Most-Liked Instagram Photo"}}]}] ```