TikTok has exploded in popularity over the last year, and if you're not yet obsessed with social media's new kid on the block, we're pretty sure you soon will be, with over a billion people around the world now using the app.
You might think that TikTok is dominated by teenagers and tweens lip-syncing and dancing in their bedrooms, and they definitely make up a large number of the platform's users.
But big-name celebrities are also jumping on the bandwagon, as well as those everyday users who have made a name for themselves simply by going viral with their videos, but who are the stars with the biggest and most engaged followings?
MethodologyRanked #1
TikTok has seen a rapid growth in the last couple of years, but that’s been matched by the incredible rise of K-Pop, specifically the guys from BTS. The boy band have an incredibly dedicated fanbase both back home in Korea and around the Western world too, with an amazing engagement rate of just below 50% from their 2.7 billion followers, meaning that around one in two of their fans likes or comments on each video.
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Ranked #2
Since leaving his wrestling career behind, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has gone on to become one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but he’s also clearly a big deal on TikTok too, with 30 million followers and an engagement rate of 17.5% thanks to his Tik Tok dance videos, compilations with Kevin Hart and family moments, working out at 5.25 million likes and comments.
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Still only sixteen years old, TikTok superstar Charli D’Amelio became the first to hit the 100million followers milestone and only started posting in early-2019. Despite her low engagement rate of 4.64% leaving her in 3rd place, her superstardom has turned her into an overnight millionaire and one of the most notable social celebrities on the planet. With a new Hulu TV series looming – Charli seems to have only just started.
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We took the number of followers directly from each celebrity’s TikTok account, before using Influencer Marketing Hub’s TikTok Money Calculator to find out their engagement rate and estimated earnings per post.
The engagement rate is calculated by adding the number of likes and comments and dividing by number of followers, so we then multiplied the engagement rate by the number of followers to estimate the number of total engagements (likes and comments) for each account.
