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1: Luis Fonsi, “Despacito featuring Daddy Yankee” 6,569,835,734 No. Here are an updated list of YouTube’s 15 most-viewed music videos, as of press time. It’s currently sitting in fifth place of YouTube's most-viewed music videos, behind other viral earworms such as “Despacito” and “Uptown Funk.” It was dethroned by Wiz Khalifa's video for “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth in July 2017.Īs big as “Gangnam Style” was, how does it measure up to other hits of the decade? The mega-hit, which references the lifestyle associated with the affluent Gangnam District of Seoul, reigned supreme on YouTube for almost five years. It eventually “broke” YouTube's play counter when it exceeded the then-maximum of 2.14 billion. 21, 2012, “Gangnam Style”, from South Korean performer Psy, became the first music video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. The infectious song and accompanying ludicrously fun music video – which introduced the invisible-horse dance to the world – was inescapable in 2012 (and at pretty much every wedding or celebratory event with a dance floor thereafter).
