YouTube Top-20 of all times
# Views Performer-Title
1 1,368,927,828 PSY-GANGNAM STYLE
2 835,322,264 Justin Bieber-Baby
3 653,574,045 Jennifer Lopez-On The Floor
4 542,967,975 Eminem-Love The Way You Lie
5 523,883,491 LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem
6 513,793,337 "Charlie"-Charlie bit my finger - again!
7 510,855,979 Shakira-Waka Waka (2010 FIFA)
8 510,204,379 Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
9 484,095,481 Michel Teló-Ai Se Eu Te Pego
10 429,106,182 Don Omar-Danza Kuduro
11 415,496,407 Carly Rae Jepsen-Call Me Maybe
12 393,536,444 Eminem-Not Afraid
13 391,242,855 Pitbull-Rain Over Me ft. Marc Anthony
14 382,060,337 Adele-Rolling In The Deep
15 379,353,837 Gotye-Somebody That I Used To Know
16 374,517,452 Bruno Mars-The Lazy Song
17 360,119,913 Justin Bieber-Never Say Never
18 354,391,278 Katy Perry-Firework
19 342,276,444 One Direction-What Makes You Beautiful
20 321,434,745 MIley Cyrus-Party In The U.S.A.
YouTube Top-5 of all times
1. PSY “Gangnam Style” music video remains an absolute popularity champion totaling more than 1,36 GigaViews, thus greatly exceeding the entire population of the North America and Europe combined; this astronomical number is greater than one-half of global Internet users’ base (i.e. about 2.267 billion as per [2]).
2. Justin Bieber remains the second most popular entertainer on the planet based on YouTube stats; his iconic musical video clip "Baby" is totaling approximately 835 MegaViews. This stratospheric popularity index far exceeds the entire population of USA, Canada [1] and Mexico combined, accounting for more than 1/3 of the global Internet users’ base [2].
3. “On The Floor” music video featuring Jennifer Lopez is going figuratively through the roof accounted for more than 653 MegaViews, thus outnumbering the entire population of North America.
4. Eminem and Rihanna’s collaborative music video “Love The Way You Lie” attracted more than 542 MegaViews on YouTube.
5. LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem music video totaling 523 MegaViews resides on the last position in YouTube Top5 group.
Afterword
Notably, the first 19 items in YouTube Top-20 are of music-video genre and only the last one (namely: “Charlie bit my finger - again!”) belongs to Internet humor category.
The entrance level to YouTube Top-10 popularity club is currently raised to approximately 484 MViews; for YouTube Top-20 and Top-100 corresponding numbers are 321 MViews and 150 MViews (rounded).
The grand total number of views calculated for Top100 most popular YouTube videos currently exceeds 26 GigaViews (as a reminder, prefix Giga stands for billion), which is more than 3.6 times the entire human population of the planet [3].
Disclaimer: All data in this article is provided on “AS IS” basis without warranty of any kind.
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