‘Gangnam Style’ dethroned as tip YouTube video

After 4 and a half years as YouTube’s many seen video, Gangnam Style slipped late Monday to series two, transposed by See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.

Gangnam Style, a satirical take on a nouveau riche residents of a Seoul district by a same name, astounded even a thespian Psy with a remarkable tellurian climb in 2012. Psy, who until Gangnam Style was small famous outward of South Korea, found an zealous fan bottom with a video’s equestrian-style dance moves set to a spreading cocktail beat.

The video became a initial to strech one billion views on YouTube and caused a site’s engineers to hasten to make changes when it surfaced 2.1 billion views, formerly suspicion to be a limit possible.

As of early Tuesday US time, Gangnam Style had 2.895 billion views on YouTube, a nick underneath See You Again, that was featured in a 2015 movement film Furious 7.

See You Again intersperses scenes from a film with Wiz Khalifa rapping and Charlie Puth singing as they disremember a sandy coast. The strain was a reverence to Paul Walker, an actor in The Fast and Furious film authorization who died in a automobile wreck.

Psy’s delight was all a some-more distinguished due to a strenuous prevalence of English-language strain on tellurian charts.

In a new example, Despacito – a Spanish-language reggaeton strain by Puerto Rican star Luis Fonsi and rapper Daddy Yankee – has reigned for 9 weeks during a tip of a US Billboard singles chart. The Despacito video is already a fifth most-watched on YouTube during 2.486 billion views even yet it was expelled only this year.

Once ancestral when Psy crossed a threshold, a sum of 68 clips have upheld a one billion perspective symbol on YouTube, all though 3 of them strain videos.

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