In honor of the 15th anniversary of the world's largest video sharing platform YouTube (founded February 14, 2005), Newsweek has published a selection of the most popular videos on Youtube for the number of views in the history of video hosting.
And we present this selection to your attention.
8. Ronaldinho - Touch of Gold, 2005
43,914 views.
Ronaldinho's Brazilian midfielder training video 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.
On the most popular YouTube video from 2006-2007. comedian Judson Lypley for 6 minutes demonstrates the basic movements of several dances popular in the 20th century.
6. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend, 2008
490,206,345 views.
The most watched YouTube video in 2008 was named the Canadian artist Avril Lavigne's clip for the song Girlfriend. This was the first video whose views exceeded the mark of one hundred million. To be precise, it has been viewed 128 million times.
5. Charlie bit my finger - again! - year 2009
872,237,585 views.
A sweet home video with two brothers, the youngest of which made a “bite” to the eldest, was a hit in 2009. It was the last non-music video that managed to get the largest number of views in a year.
4. Lady Gaga - Bad Romanc - 2010
1 167 713 233 views.
Lady Gaga likes to surprise the audience with her clips with fancy outfits, movements and beautiful half-naked bodies. In 2010, a hit that spawned many imitations was the video Bad Romanc, in which the singer was kidnapped by several models, soldered, and then sold to the mafia in sexual slavery.
It was the first female song to win diamond certification in the United States, and, again, the first female song to receive 11 platinum in America.
3. Justin Bieber - Baby ft - 2011
2 193 138 849 views.
The song of the Canadian singer was the most popular on YouTube until she lost the lead to the clip Gangnam Style. This single preceded the album My World 2.0 - the first, but not the only one of Bieber's long-playing albums.
2. Gangnam Style - 2012-2017
3 519 936 767 views.
The incendiary clip of the South Korean singer PSY was watched more than a billion times in just one year. At the same time, Gangnam Style did not give anyone the title of the most popular video on Youtube for the whole five years! According to rough estimates, this song brought its artist over $ 1 million.
In the video, PSY appears in various places in Gangnam-gu, an elite district of Seoul. From its name the expression “Gangnam Style” has been used, which applies to a relatively luxurious lifestyle. It's funny, but the song is not about the area itself, but about the “hot and fashionable” girl who seems calm, but knows how to become 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 throw Gangnam Style off the podium of the best YouTube video? And this is the creation of the hot Puerto Rican guys Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankees. Despacito came out in the summer of 2017 and by the beginning of August had managed to get 3 billion views, and in October it overcame the bar of 4 billion views.
But I did not stop there, I reached 6 billion views, and in 2019 I got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular clip in the history of YouTube. He is still holding the lead in the number of likes (as of February 2020, there were over 36 million of them).
In the meantime, we can only follow up on whether any video will succeed in breaking the Despacito record this year.
