List of most-liked Instagram posts


This list contains the top 20 posts with the most likes on the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram. The most-liked post on Instagram is a photo of an egg, which has been liked by over 54.3 million different accounts. The post is also the most-liked internet post of all time of any website. The like function has been removed in certain countries such as Canada and Australia in a trial to reduce the negative effects of "competition" on the platform.

Current record

On January 4, 2019, the account @world_record_egg posted a photo of an egg with the specific purpose of surpassing the then most-liked Instagram post, a picture of Kylie Jenner's daughter with 18.6 million likes. The photo of the egg was originally taken by Serghei Platanov, who then posted it to Shutterstock on June 23, 2015, with the title "eggs isolated on white background."
On January 14, 2019, the egg post became the most-liked post on Instagram, to which the egg's account owner wrote "This is madness. What a time to be alive." In response to her record being surpassed, Jenner posted a video on Instagram of her cracking an egg open with the caption: "Take that little egg." The egg's original photographer was surprised by his photo's popularity, writing, "Egg is just an egg."
On February 3, 2019, the creator of the @world_record_egg account was revealed to be Chris Godfrey, an advertising creative, and his friends CJ Brown and Alissa Khan-Whelan.

Top posts

The following table lists the top 20 most-liked posts on Instagram.
Two accounts have more than one of the most-liked posts in the top 20: Kylie Jenner has seven, and Selena Gomez has two.

Historical most-liked posts

The following table lists the last eight posts that were once the most-liked post on Instagram, with the number of likes as they were when the top spot was reached.