Music videos are among the most popular content on YouTube, regularly drawing huge audiences during highly-anticipated releases of leading artists. Halsey", the music video generated 74.6 million views within the first 24 hours of release. The average number of days for songs to reach one billion views on YouTube varies by year of release. Music videos with a billion or more views released in 2017 only took 171 days to reach that milestone, compared to the 290 days it took a billion-view video released in 2015.
BTS's hit track "Dynamite" once again makes history after views for its music video surpassed the 1-billion mark, seven months after its release -- making it the fastest Korean group to achieve a feat. On Monday morning, the music video for the South Korean supergroup's hit single surpassed 1 billion views — a rare feat achieved by only a handful of musicians and content creators on the platform. The milestone comes several months after the pop stars' first track recorded entirely in English debuted in August atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Eminem's 'Rap God' music video has joined the select club of YouTube videos with more than 1 billion views.
The rapper's hit track reached the prestigious milestone six years after its release in 2013, its numbers bolstered by Eminem's surprise performance at the Oscars earlier this month and a tweet from the hip hop star. On Friday, Eminem had requested his fans to help the video cross 1 billion views, tweeting a lyric from the song. Interestingly, BTS also holds the record for the fastest Korean music video to reach 1 billion views as Dynamite touched the mark in less than eight months. Fake Love was released back in 2018 and it took the song a little over three years to reach this impressive feat. Ed Sheeran released a lyric video for the song on his channel. People have viewed that version over 750 million times to date.
On 30 January 2017, the official video was uploaded to YouTube. The video became one of the fastest videos to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. It achieved this milestone on 8 May 2017, just 97 days after its release. 'Dynamite' also holds the YouTube record for the most viewed music videos in the first 24 hours of release. The official music video clocked an impressive 101.1 million views on the first day of its release, making it number one on the list of all-time highest views on the site. Despite having long been surpassed by Luis Fonsi's global smash hit "Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee" in terms of total views, Adele's record for fastest video release to generate one billion views still stands as of August 2021.
Released in October 2015, singer Adele's release "Hello" from her upcoming comeback album "25" racked up 100 million views in the first four days of being uploaded to YouTube and crossed the one billion view mark after 87.4 days. On September 8, the music video for Fake Love surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. For those who may be unaware, this is BTS' 5th music video to have achieved this feat after Mic Drop joined the club last month. With Fake Love in the mix, now BTS have DNA, Boy With Luv, Dynamite, and MIC Drop as their music videos to have hit and surpassed 1 billion views on Youtube. Just over 200 music videos have surpassed the one billion views mark on YouTube, the beloved streaming service that launched 15 years ago.
The first video to reach a billion views was Psy's "Gangnam Style" in 2012. "Despacito" is near the top of the list, with over six billion views. There's a shark song in the #1 spot and that's all we'll say about that kids' song lest it get stuck in your head. Here are the videos that joined the Billion Views Club on Youtube in 2020 and in 2021 so far. The majority of these videos in the Billion View Club have been commercial music videos by popular artists, but the list has included oddities, typically programs aimed at children. The original video by Pinkfong is now the most viewed video on the site.
On October 29, 2020, Baby Shark surpassed 7 billion views, and on November 2, it passed Despacito to become the most viewed video on YouTube. On February 23, 2021, Baby Shark surpassed 8 billion views, becoming the first video to do so. On July 20, 2021, Baby Shark surpassed 9 billion views, becoming the first video to do so. "DNA" is BTS' first music video to reach one billion views on YouTube, achieving the milestone on June 1, 2010, or two years and eight months after its upload on Sept. 18, 2017.
This made BTS the first K-pop boy band to have a music video with one billion views. Katy Perry's music video, Dark Horse, was the first video by a female artist to have received 1 billion views on YouTube. She recorded the video with rapper Juicy J and it is a mixture of trap and hip-hop. In fact, she is also the first artist to have two music videos that have exceeded more than 1 billion views. Her music video for Roar was even more popular and also reached 1 billion views on YouTube in 2015.
Billie Eilish's breakout #1 hit has reached over a billion views and it raked them all in since this music video premiered back on March 29, 2019. Yes, 2019 feels like a different age, but views still count in real time and according to all official measures, March 2019 was just a little over a year and a half ago. Next up, we could see "Lovely", her 2018 song with Khalid, join the club. Despacito was released earlier this year and has already become the third most watched video on Youtube with 2.878 billion views at the time of writing. In the process, it became the second fastest video to reach 1 billion views and the fastest to 2 billion views.
Even if it fails to become the first video to reach 3 billion views, it will be the fastest to reach this milestone. What's very interesting about this song by Puerto Rican duo is that it may have contributed to increased tourism in the country. Some are arguingagainst it completely downplaying the notion. Whatever the case maybe, atleast no one can take away these billions of views the song has had in last few months. But for music videos that predate the streaming platform, it's much rarer and therefore more impressive. The boys have only BTS ARMY to thank for their latest record.
The fans got #DynamiteTo1B trending on social media soon after the music video crossed the 950 million mark. Another video for kids that made it into the top 10 most viewed YouTube videos is Johny Johny Yes Papa. It's a short, animated music video about a mischievous baby and his Papa.
It's a simple song about a baby trying to eat some sugar even though his Papa obviously doesn't approve. The song itself isn't annoying, either — it's almost too simple and short to be a nuisance. That's a good thing, considering it's been viewed/listened to more than 5 billion times. In fact, children's programming and music videos are now among the most viewed content on YouTube. Music videos, in particular, have enjoyed great success on the streaming site and, until recently, had been the majority of the most viewed videos in YouTube's history.
Music videos still account for half of the top 10 most viewed videos, however. If these view counts are anything to go by, the video-sharing site could be considered a leading platform for music videos and kid-friendly content rather than just the meme-worthy viral videos the site was known for in its early days. The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has officially hit one billion views on YouTube. The video for Astley's 1987 song was uploaded to YouTube on October 25, 2009, and broke the record on July 29. Some opposed this feat, citing that Baby Shark is a nursery rhyme which, since it's a kids song, is unlike the other videos that have reached this spot in the past which were mostly mainstream music videos popular with older audiences. Others praised its overtaking, however, due to them either being fans of the song, disliking Despacito, or simply wanting a change of pace.
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Although the most-viewed videos were initially viral videos, such as "Evolution of Dance" and "Charlie Bit My Finger", the most-viewed videos were increasingly related to music videos. Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. Some of the previously most-viewed videos are no longer listed on the site.
The first video to reach one billion views was Korean singer Psy's Gangam Style which achieved the feat in December 2012 – within six months of releasing on the website. It was also the first video to reach 2 billion views and interestingly it had broken Youtube's view limit which was 2,147,483,647 (2.14 billion). Gangam Style held the record of most watched video for more than four years until earlier this month when See You Again overtook the record.
"Fake Love" is the boy band's fifth music video to achieve the record. Its music videos for "DNA" and "Boy With Luv" exceeded 1.3 billion views, "Dynamite" exceeded 1.2 billion views and "MIC Drop " exceeded 1 billion views in July. The song, released on Aug 21, set records since its very first day, when it became the biggest 24-hour music video of all time on the site, with over 101.1 million views on the first day it dropped. The music video for the South Korean group's hit Grammy-nominated single Dynamite surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube on Monday, the video streaming platform reported. The video was a huge success and in only 88 days it reached 1 billion views on YouTube .
It also stars Tristan Wilds, an American actor, singer-songwriter and record producer. It is also one of the most liked videos on YouTube with more than 13 million likes. Pinkfong has recognized this achievement on their social media accounts as well as their main YouTube Channel, thanking their fans for their support. One week later after topping the charts, the channel has uploaded an hour-long compilation featuring different kids nursery rhymes and different versions of the main song Baby Shark, likely commemorating Baby Shark Dance's achievement. It's Linda Perry, Louis Metoyer, Christa Hillhouse and Dawn Richardson, and none of them are blonde. But together, their powers combine to create a band that is more than the sum of their parts and the parts in their hair.
They are 4 Non Blondes, and their 1993 anthem, "What's Up?", has just surpassed the magical 'billion views' milestone. If her name sounds familiar, it's because she's penned some of the biggest bangers of our time, including Pink's "Get the Party Started", Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For?" and Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". The boy band debuted in South Korea in 2013 with No More Dream from the album 2 Cool 4 Skool, which gained them much popularity within the country.
The next song to bring them some more national attention wasBoy in Luv . Much of their later international popularity was gained in 2017 when they were seen at Billboard Music Awards and also when they made their American television debut at American Music Awards . The band is now internationally known for its pop music and dance moves and has managed to gain a huge fan base.
Originally released in 1985, the official music video for "Take On Me" was recently restored and upgraded to 4K resolution to improve its visual quality. Directed by Steve Barron, the video captured audiences' imaginations around the world with its groundbreaking mix of pencil-sketch animation and live action. This illustration technique – known as rotoscoping – required live-action footage to be hand traced frame by frame.
To complete the video, artists Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger spent 16 weeks rotoscoping thousands of frames. Never Gonna Give You Up was uploaded by Rick Astley on YouTube in late 2009. The song soon became a popular prank that reached meme status, with Internet users alleging they'd linked to one thing when, in reality, the person who clicked the link would be taken to YouTube's copy of the music video. The "Dynamite" video on YouTube (titled "BTS (방탄소년단) 'Dynamite' Official MV") premiered in August 2020.
It garnered over 101.1 million views in its first 24 hours, making it the biggest music video debut on the video platform to date. The video also set a record for the biggest YouTube Premiere with over 3 million peak concurrent views. This will, however, not be the first music video of 2020 to hit the billion views mark.
Rapper Future's track 'Life Is Good' featuring Drake, which dropped on January 10, 2020, is currently on its way to the 2 billion views mark with over 1.84 billion views. V, J-Hope, RM, Jin, Jimin, Jungkook and Suga continued their record-breaking spree, by clocking a billion views in just over 7 months of its release on the video streaming site. The song dropped online on August 21, 2020, and hit the milestone on April 12, 2021. "Idol" is their sixth music video to earn one billion views and it came just three days after "Fake Love" reached the milestone last Sept. 8.
K-pop superstars BTS added another feat to their list of music videos that have reached one billion views each. The music video, which stars Adele and Tristan Wilds, was directed by Xavier Dolan. It broke the record for the shortest time to reach 1 billion views on YouTube – 88 days.
It currently has over 12 million likes, making it the fifth most liked video on YouTube. In addition to being a music video, Baby Shark Dance is also the only kids video to become the most viewed video on YouTube. Since the YouTube most viewed video charts appeared for the first time on the site on October 29, 2005, about 24 channels have had the privilege of having one of their videos as the most viewed video on YouTube.
On August 4, 2017 Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" music video became the most viewed on YouTube with over 7 billion views. It would remain the most viewed video until November 1, 2020 when Baby Shark Dance by Pinkfong surpassed Despacito as the most viewed video. Katy Perry was the first female artist to reach one billion views on a video while Taylor Swift was the first female artist to reach two billion views on a video. See You Again is a song by American duo Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth. It's the official soundtrack for Fast Furious 7 which was commissioned to for the film as as a tribute to Paul Walker, the Fast & Furious actor who had died in a car accident. It currently sits at 2.972 billion views with the most likely contender of the first video to reach 3 billion Youtube views.
Released in 2015, the video that stars Vin Diesel took 181 days to reach 1 billion views and 515 days to reach 2 billion . DNA music video made BTS the first ever Korean boy band to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. LOS ANGELES – The iconic video for a-ha's #1 smash "Take On Me" has reached one billion views on YouTube.
The Norwegian band joins the small group of music artists who have achieved this rare milestone. The Internet's most popular prank, Rickrolling, has driven the official video for Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up to the prestigious 1 billion views milestone. To celebrate the achievement, singer Astley pinned a comment on the video announcing the moment, thanking fans for the "amazing, crazy, wonderful" milestone.
The music video for the hit 1985 song "Take On Me" by A-ha now has more than 1bn views on YouTube. The artist with the most videos to reach one billion views on YouTube is Jan Carlos Ozuna Rosado aka Ozuna , who has a total number of 7 music videos across mutiple channels, on February 2019. "DNA" and "Boy With Luv" are the other BTS music videos that have surpassed the 1 billion mark, with over 1.2 billion and 1.1 billion views, respectively. Not a day goes by without BTS giving their fans something to celebrate! ARMY has not one but two achievements to boast off as BTS' hit song Fake Love has finally joined the 1 billion club on Youtube. If that wasn't all, V, too, has set a new record for himself by surpassing 4 million followers on Spotify.
Arguably just as impressive as its view count is that it beat such stiff competition from its contemporaries. Big music videos from other major artists, like Katy Perry, saw their big 2014 hits achieve billions of views. As of April 16, 2021, Psy's 2012 mega hit Gangnam Style remains the most-viewed video from a Korean star on the platform, with over 4 billion views. The next most-viewed music video out of South Korea is Blackpink's Ddu-du Ddu-du, which has over 1.5 billion views. BTS is one of only three South Korea-based acts to have surpassed 1 billion views for any music videos on YouTube, along with Psy and Blackpink. Both BTS and Blackpink each have three music videos that have surpassed the milestone, while Psy has two.
