Psy Oppa-gangnam-styled out of the position as YouTube’s most watched video.
“Gangnam Style” took the world by storm when it was released in 2012.
The South Korean K-pop video triggered a global dance craze that nearly
broke YouTube, hitting a billion views for the first time ever and
rocketing up to 2.89 billion views. The video caused the site’s
engineers to scramble to make changes when it topped 2.1 billion views,
previously thought to be the maximum possible. The song topped the
charts in over 30 countries and had everyone, even former US President
Obama and his vice president David Cameron, doing the Gangnam style.
Psy’s triumph was all the more striking due to the overwhelming
dominance of English-language music on global charts. However, after
four and a half years as YouTube’s most seen video, “Gangnam Style”
slipped to number two, replaced by “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa and
Charlie Puth.
“See you again” featuring Charlie Puth outstripped ‘Gangnam Style’ to
become the most played video in July 2017. It has racked up 2.9 billion
views since it was released in April 2015. The song, which was
commissioned for the soundtrack to Furious 7 and was the popular music
video in 2015, is a tribute to actor Paul Walker who died in a car
accident in 2013. AFP contributed to this post.
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