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List of most-liked Instagram posts
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This list of most-liked Instagram posts contains the top 20 posts by number of likes on the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram.
The most-liked post as of July 2025[update] is of the Argentine footballer Lionel Messi and his teammates celebrating the 2022 FIFA World Cup win at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, which has been liked by over 75 million different accounts. Uploaded on December 18, 2022, the post shows Messi lifting his first World Cup Trophy after Argentina's win over France in the final. It is also the most liked post of all time across all social media platforms.[1][2]
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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.[3] 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."[4] The creator of the @world_record_egg account was Chris Godfrey, an advertising creative, and his friends CJ Brown and Alissa Khan-Whelan.[5][6]
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."[7] Jenner responded with a video on Instagram of her cracking an egg open with the caption: "Take that little egg."[8] Platanov was surprised by his photo's popularity, writing, "Egg is just an egg."[4]
On December 18, 2022, footballer Lionel Messi posted a carousel with photos of him lifting the FIFA World Cup Trophy and celebrating with his teammates after winning the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Argentina, which reached 10 million likes within the first 39 minutes of its sharing.[9] The following day, the post became the most-liked Instagram post in the first 24 hours of its sharing, with 50 million likes.[10][11] On December 20, 2022, the post reached over 56 million likes, surpassing the previous record held by @world_record_egg.[12][13][14]
Within 48 hours of Messi posting, the Instagram post had surpassed 64 million likes, and in doing so, it became the most-liked social media post ever across all social media platforms, by overtaking the most-liked post on YouTube, the music video for the song "Despacito", which had reached 50.2 million likes, and the most-liked post on TikTok, a video uploaded by Bella Poarch featuring her lip-syncing to the song "Sophie Aspin Send", which had reached 60.3 million likes.[1][2] This also meant that it became the first ever post on Instagram to reach 60 and 70 million likes, achieving that in just 3 days since it was posted.[15]
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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo make up 12 out of the top 20 most-liked posts, with posts mainly released around the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Most-liked Instagram posts posted by non-footballers. Selena Gomez makes up two out of the top 20 non-football related most-liked posts.
Also in the overall top 20
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Historical most-liked posts
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The following table lists posts that were once the most-liked post on Instagram.
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