--- title: Selena Gomez Is the Most Followed Person on Instagram description: Selena Gomez has become the most followed person on Instagram, with 100 million followers canonical: https://time.com/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-29T00:36:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:09.302Z og:title: Selena Gomez Is the First Person to Reach 100 Million Instagram Followers og:description: She's still the most followed person on the social-media platform og:url: https://time.com/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/ 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: Selena Gomez Is the First Person to Reach 100 Million Instagram Followers twitter:description: She's still the most followed person on the social-media platform twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Selena Gomez Becomes the First Person to Reach 100 Million Instagram Followers by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 29, 2016 12:36 AM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 29, 2016 12:36 AM UTC [Selena Gomez](http://time.com/4452301/selena-gomez-justin-bieber-instagram-sofia-richie/) is the first celebrity to reach 100 million followers on Instagram, and she hasn’t even posted anything on her account since August. The 23-year-old actress and singer, who is [currently taking a break](http://motto.time.com/4473229/selena-gomez-lupus-time-off/) from social media and public life because of lupus side effects, which include anxiety and depression, ranked as the most followed person on Instagram in July with 89.2 million fans. By pushing into 100 million followers, she hit a new milestone. The record number of followers cements Gomez as the reigning queen of Instagram, an unofficial title she’s held since July, when a [photo she posted became the most liked](https://www.instagram.com/p/BHF4NdhhOmc/?taken-by=selenagomez) on the platform, with more than 5.6 million likes. Gomez outranks fellow Instagram celebrities like Taylor Swift (91.5 million followers), Beyoncé (85.4 million followers) and Kim Kardashian (83.7 million followers). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/"},"headline":"Selena Gomez Becomes the First Person to Reach 100 Million Instagram Followers","datePublished":"2016-09-29T00:36:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:09.302Z","description":"She's still the most followed person on the social-media platform","url":"https://time.com/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"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/4512549/selena-gomez-instagram-100-million/","name":"Selena Gomez Becomes the First Person to Reach 100 Million Instagram Followers"}}]}] ```