Swedish gamer and video-maker PewDiePie lost his crown as the YouTube star with the most subscribers.

On Apr 1, for a day he was in second place, behind Indian channel T-Series, reports the BBC.

The incumbent topper T-Series shares Bollywood film trailers and music videos, while PewDiePie posts video game commentaries and sketches.

PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, had been battling T-Series to retain the top spot for several months.

On Sunday (Mar 31), he posted a video congratulating his rival.

He also threw some shade at the Bollywood-themed channel. “All it took was a massive corporate entity with every song in Bollywood,” he sings in the video.

But it appears that PewDiePiew has now bounced back to the top spot. At the time of writing, he has 92,459,748 subscribers to T-Series’ 92,301,774.

Bhushan Kumar, who owns T Series, recently told the BBC that he was “not bothered” about winning the race.

On Monday (Apr 1) morning, T-Series was about 15,500 subscribers ahead of PewDiePie, who has more than 92 million subscribers.

In recent months, PewDiePie's supporters had carried out a number of promotional efforts on his behalf. A pair of fans even hacked thousands of printers that then printed out messages telling people to subscribe to PewDiePie's channel.

Tesla chief Elon Musk went on to co-host an edition of his Meme Review show alongside Justin Roiland, the co-creator of cartoon series Rick and Morty.

T-Series was started by Mr Kumar's father as a production company in 1983. The company recorded devotional music and sold the tracks on cassette. It put its first video on YouTube in 2011.

Mr Kjellberg launched PewDiePie eight years ago and went on to become the world's highest-paid YouTuber.

Despite his success, the most subscribed-to channel on YouTube remains one of the platform's own. Its music videos channel has more than 105 million followers.