In honor of the 15th anniversary of the world's largest video sharing platform YouTube (founded on February 14, 2005), Newsweek has released a compilation of the most watched YouTube videos by the number of views in the history of the video hosting.
And we present this selection to your attention.
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8. Ronaldinho - Touch of Gold, 2005
43,914 views.
The video of the training of the Brazilian national team midfielder Ronaldinho was published by Nike. She later removed it from the public domain, but then the video was again presented to the general public. On it, Ronaldinho managed to hit the crossbar four times with the ball, while the ball never fell on the field.
7. The Evolution of Dance, 2006-2007
306 989 168 views.
The most popular YouTube video during 2006-2007. Comedian Judson Laypley demonstrates the basic movements of several dances popular in the 20th century for 6 minutes.
6. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend, 2008
490 206 345 views.
The most watched YouTube video in 2008 was the video for the song Girlfriend by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was the first video to hit the 100 million mark. To be precise, it has been viewed 128 million times.
5. Charlie bit my finger - again! - year 2009
872,237,585 views.
A cute home video with two brothers, the youngest of whom made "kus" to the elder became a hit in 2009. It also became the last non-music video that managed to gain the largest number of views in a year.
4.Lady Gaga - Bad Romanc - 2010
1,167,713,233 views.
Lady Gaga loves to surprise viewers with her clips of bizarre outfits, movements and beautiful half-naked bodies. In 2010, a hit that spawned many imitations was the video Bad Romanc, in which the singer is kidnapped by several models, drunk, and then sold to the mafia into sexual slavery.
It was the first female song to achieve diamond certification in the US and, again, the first female song to go 11 platinum in America.
3. Justin Bieber - Baby ft - 2011
2,193,138,849 views.
The song by the Canadian singer was the most popular on YouTube until it lost the palm to the video Gangnam Style. This single predates My World 2.0, the first but not the only of Bieber's long-running albums.
2.Gangnam Style - 2012-2017
3,519,936,767 views.
South Korean singer PSY's incendiary music video has been watched over a billion times in just one year. At the same time, Gangnam Style has not given the title of the most popular video on Youtube to anyone for five whole years! According to rough estimates, this song brought its artist over $ 1 million.
In the music video, PSY appears in various locations in Gangnam, an elite area in Seoul. From its name came the expression "Gangnam Style", which is applied to the luxury lifestyle. It's funny, but the song is not about the area itself, but about a "hot and fashionable" girl who seems calm, but knows how to get hot and sexy at the right time.
1. Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft - 2017-present
6,632,850,641 views.
Who is the giant who managed to knock Gangnam Style off the podium of the best YouTube video? And this is the creation of hot Puerto Rican guys Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Despacito came out in the summer of 2017 and by the beginning of August managed to gain 3 billion views, and in October it exceeded the bar of 4 billion views.
But he did not stop there, reached 6 billion views, and in 2019 hit the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular clip in YouTube history. He still holds the lead in the number of likes (as of February 2020, there were more than 36 million of them).
For now, all we have to do is to monitor whether any video will manage to break the Despacito record this year.