2022’s Top 10 Most-Followed Drag Race Queens on Instagram

Drag as an art form will never ever cease to exist. Thanks to RuPaul, Drag Race, and these amazing queens! Join us in celebrating the fabulous reach of their charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent! To highlight how drag has captured the whole world, we will enlist the shiniest social media mavens among all of RuPaul’s Drag Race queens! Start your engines and get a good review of some of RuPaul’s most fabulous and beloved drag queens!

Top 1: TrixieMattel – 3 million followers

Seasons: Season 7 and All Stars Season 3

Trixie is the most followed RuPaul’s Drag Race queen with not just one, not two, but three million online followers on Instagram. This even excludes her YouTube following where she has 1.66 million subscribers and Twitter, where she has a million followers! Trixie is loved by many because she’s pretty, pink, funny, and unapologetic about it! It’s Trixie’s world and we’re all just in it! 

Top 2: Katya Zamolodchikova and Bianca Del Rio – 2.5 million followers

Katya Zamolodchikova – 2.5 million followers

Season: Season 7 and All Stars Season 2

Katya is from the same season as Trixie! The 7th season appears to have gathered the most social media following as apart from her IG followers, Katya also has 263k subscribers on YouTube and one million followers on Twitter! Everybody seems to love the lethally funny Russian spy, Katya!

Bianca Del Rio – 2.5 million followers

Season: Season 6

You don’t know Drag Race if you don’t know the legendary Bianca del Rio. She’s the winner of Season 6 and she continues to capture everyone’s heart with her fabulous humor and ever-tailored looks!

Top 3: Adore Delano – 2.1 million followers

Season: Season 6 and All Stars Season 2

Sweetly nestled at the third spot is the beautiful Adore Delano. It’s been a while since she appeared on television, but she keeps active with her gigs and social media accounts! Ms. Adore even has TikTok! Closely following her career would give you an idea as to how drag queen styles used in todays shows have evolved! 

Top 4: Violet Chachki and Plastique Tiara – 2 million followers

Violet Chachki – 2 million followers

Season: Season 7

Violet Chachki is the iconic winner of Drag Race’s Season 7! She’s a fashion queen that never stops serving killer looks after looks. Violet Chachki changed the game when she entered the scene! 

Plastique Tiara – 2 million followers

Season: Season 11

Photo by: RuPaul’s Drag Race

Plastique Tiara is the beautiful sweetheart of Season 11. People always watch out for her social media posts because she always offers the fishiest transformations!

Top 5:  Alyssa Edwards and Kim Chi – 1.9 million followers

Alyssa Edwards – 1.9 million followers

Season: Season 5 and All Stars Season 2

Alyssa Edwards may have failed to snatch a crown in both seasons that she was in, but Ms. Edwards is  Drag Race royalty. Everybody knows it! You just have to see her believe it. 

Kim Chi – 1.9 million followers

Season: Season 8

Kim Chi is such a fierce Asian drag queen! People are always ever amazed at her conceptual looks and makeup! She now owns a successful cosmetic line that drag queens and non-drag queens equally love!

Top 6: Alaska – 1.8 million followers

Season: Season 5 and All Stars Season 2

Alaska is the winner of All Stars Season 2! It’s always a good time when you’re with her because she’s simply one of the funniest and most fabulous drag queens from Drag Race!

Top 7: Sasha Velour and Aquaria – 1.7 million followers

Sasha Velour – 1.7 million followers

Season: Season 9

Sasha is Season 9’s winner and fabulous intellectual queen. Her final performance still remains one of the most iconic moments in Drag Race’s her-story!

Aquaria – 1.7 million followers

Season: Season 10

Aquaria is the 21-year-old gifted winner of Season 10. She’s been making headlines year after year and the world still can’t get enough of her. And she only turned 26 this year! 

Top 8: Bob the Drag Queen and Naomi Smalls – 1.6 million followers

Bob the Drag Queen – 1.6 million followers

Season: Season 8 

Bob the Drag Queen is the comedy queen winner of Season 8! He is known for doing ratchet drag and for appearing in ‘purse first.’

Naomi Smalls – 1.6 million followers

Season: Season 8 and All Stars Season 3

Naomi Smalls is known for having legs, legs, legs, and legs for days. She got her name after Naomi Campbell and she’s been conquering the world ever since her season debut!

Top 9: Manila Luzon, Shangela, Jinkx Monsoon, Shea Couleé, and  Vaness Vanjie Mateo – 1.5 million followers

Manila Luzon – 1.5 million followers

Season: Season 3, All Stars Season 1, and All Stars Season 4

Manila Luzon is another Drag Race royalty. Her lip sync battle with Delta Work on her original season still remains one of the most memorable lip sync battles of all time! 

Shangela – 1.5 million followers

Season: Season 2, Season 3, and All Stars Season 3

Shangela is a charismatic queen who works hard all the time! She is most known for the iconic Untucked showdown with Mimi Imfurst. She’s also known for her cameo in Ariana Grande’s song NASA.

Jinkx Monsoon – 1.5 million followers

Season: Season 5 and All Stars Season 7

Jinks Monsoon is the winner of Season 5 and holder of the title “Queen of All Queens” after winning All Stars Season 7. She is pre magic and everybody knows it. This is why she’s the only queen with two crowns!

Shea Couleé – 1.5 million followers

Season: Season 9 and All Stars Season 5

Shea Couleé is the forever fabulous winner of All Stars Season 5. She has starred in many TV shows since then and she is set to appear in a Marvel movie soon!

Vanessa Vanjie Mateo – 1.5 million followers

Season: Season 10 and Season 11

Everybody loves Miss Vanjie. She was too iconic during her elimination in Season 10 that RuPaul decided to bring her back in Season 11. “Miss Vanjie…. Miss Vanjie…. Miss Vanjie…” Who could forget that?

Top 10: Valentina and Gottmik – 1.4 million followers

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Valentina – 1.4 million followers

Season: Season 9 and All Stars Season 4

Valentina made masks a thing even before the pandemic. This fabulous Latina queen is forever charismatic and gorgeous! 

Gottmik – 1.4 million

Season: Season 13

Gottmik is the first out trans man who joined Drag Race. She’s forever loved for her high fashion looks and fabulous make-up. She is a celebrity make-up artist when not in drag!