Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most watched video on YouTube.
The clip, which took over the world in 2012 for its surreal visuals and dance routine, has been YouTube's most played video for the last five years.
It was once so popular that it broke YouTube's play counter and the company had to rewrite their code, which now allows a maximum of over nine quintillion plays. Gangnam Style's current views stands at 2,894,555,157.
Psy with his Official Number 1 Award for Gangnam Style
Five years on, and the clip has been eclipsed by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again, which has 2,895,787,994 views.
The song was released in March 2015 for the seventh instalment of The Fast & The Furious franchise, Furious 7. The death of one of the film's lead actors, Paul Walker, added extra poignancy to the track.
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See You Again spent two weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. Its combined sales to date in the UK stand at 1.45 million, split by 722,000 downloads and 73 million streams.
It was the UK's fifth biggest single of 2015, finishing ahead of Adele's Hello and Justin Bieber's Sorry. Look back at the Official Top 100 biggest songs of 2015 in full here.
However, See You Again's reign as YouTube's most-watched video may be short-lived; Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito - currently Number 1 in the UK - has notched up 2.5 billion views in just six months, and it shows no signs of slowing down yet.
The Spanglish track has so far racked up eight weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart, thanks in part to a remix featuring Justin Bieber.
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Despacito is currently the world's fifth most-watched music video on YouTube. In addition to Wiz Khalifa (1) and Psy (2) are Justin Bieber's Sorry at 3 and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk at 4.
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for approximately five years, “gangnam style” reigned supreme as the no. 1 most popular video on youtube, but it was recently forced to give up that title. within one month it was pushed from first place to second (by “see you again”) and then almost immediately to third (by “despacito”), where it still stands.
youtube helped spread “gangnam style” around the globe, and almost immediately after it was uploaded to the website, it began spreading like wildfire. the video, which features the singer being rather ridiculous, plenty of dancing and even an explosion or two, was visually appealing and a joke at the same time, and the combination of the two helped it become a serious smash in almost every nation on the planet.
before “gangnam style” came along, k-pop was typically reserved for only those in south korea and, to a lesser extent, the rest of asia, as well as those who had already been turned onto the style by friends or tastemakers. a k-pop act had never broken in the u.s. in a major way, and none had ever scored a hit anywhere near as massive as the somewhat silly tune ended up being. “gangnam style” wound up peaking at no. 2 in america, held back for several frames from reaching the top spot, though it still holds as the most successful track from that genre in u.s. history.
next up to join the three billion club is probably justin bieber’s “sorry,” though anything could happen in the coming months, as youtube continues to attract millions of users who choose to focus solely on that platform when it comes to all their music listening needs.
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