Three videos from 2016 made the cut: “Work From Home” by Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla Sign, “This Is What You Came For” by Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna, and “Closer” by the Chainsmokers featuring Halsey. Seven videos from 2015 and nine from 2014 populate the list. Nearly half of the Top 25 videos are less than 3 years old. Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” (the second video to surpass 1 billion views after “Gangnam Style”) is the oldest video in the Top 25, having debuted in February 2010. In fact, only two don’t fit that mold: one is a clip from a Russian children’s show and the other is an hour-long compilation of classic children’s songs.
But the truth is, the most popular videos on the site are overwhelmingly music videos.Ī look at the top 25 most-viewed YouTube videos reveals that nearly all of them are recent music videos. YouTube tends to be perceived as the domain of insipid vloggers, pranks gone awry, and TV clips. Psy’s “ Gangnam Style” enjoyed a five-year reign atop YouTube’s charts, but it was dethroned in June 2017. The list of the top 25 most-viewed YouTube videos of all time is changing constantly, but no video has shown the velocity we’ve seen from “Despacito”-and it won’t let up anytime soon. 4, and it’s since become the first video to shatter 5 billion views.
The international hit and undisputed song of the summer in 2017 passed “See You Again,” Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s ode to the Fast and the Furious, on Aug. In a truly shocking amount of time, Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” has become the most-viewed YouTube video of all time.
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