Most-Liked Instagram Posts 2026

About This Dataset

This chart ranks the ten most-liked posts in Instagram's history by total likes in millions, as of 2026. Entries include football photographs, viral reels and a single photograph of an egg. Ranks are ordered here by like count.

✨ AI Insight

Lionel Messi's 2022 World Cup celebration leads with 74.6 million likes and remains the most-liked post across all social media, not just Instagram. Messi appears three times in the top ten, more than any other account, with two further World Cup trophy posts at 53.4 and 40.9 million. The world record egg photograph sits second at 60.5 million, a deliberate 2019 stunt that still outranks every celebrity post except Messi's. A clear structural shift is visible: six of the ten entries are reels from little-known creators posted between 2025 and 2026, suggesting Instagram's algorithm now rewards short video from unknown accounts as readily as it rewards global celebrity.

Source: Wikipedia: List of most-liked Instagram posts

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Lionel Messi - 2022 World Cup celebration leads with 75 in 2026.

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Average value in 2026: 51 · median: 49.

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Gap in 2026: Lionel Messi - 2022 World Cup celebration is 1.8× larger than Lionel Messi - on an airplane with the trophy.