You may have heard that "Love" is one of the most common words in song titles, and it's true that many of Billboard's top charting songs include the word. But what about in the world of web video?
On YouTube, there are well approximately 5 million music videos with the word "love" in the title and those videos have been watched over a whopping 50 BILLION times. The most popular of them is Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie", which has over 600 million views to date.
Below you'll find a chart of when these "love" music videos were posted over the history of the site. With the exception of one anomaly in 2008, the majority of peaks are right around Valentine's Day when we see an uptick in "love"-related uploads.
Here are the top 10 "love" music videos on YouTube of all-time:
- Love the Way You Lie - Eminem ft. Rihanna
- International Love - Pitbull ft. Chris Brown
- We Found Love - Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris
- Somebody to Love Remix - Justin Bieber ft. Usher
- Love You Like a Love Song - Selena Gomez and The Scene
- Stereo Love - Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina
- As Long As You Love Me - Justin Bieber ft. Big Sean
- This is Love - will.i.am and Eva Simons
- Love Story - Taylor Swift
- Love Me - Justin Bieber
Watch them all below:
Or, instead of watching those, here's a cover video that mashes up over 25 different love songs in one.
-- Kevin Allocca
Happy Holidays from YouTube Trends!
It's time for our annual review of the top trending videos of the holiday season. This year, we've got more videos produced by brands than ever before, with five total, if you include the NBA which is on the list for the second year in a row. The top spot went to WestJet's popular Christmas vid and rounding out the 10 was last year's champion, Epic Rap Battles of History.
You can see the full top 10 in the list below or via this playlist.
The top vid of the Christmas week so far comes from Steve Kardynal (who also produced one of 2013's top trending videos overall). The #1 Hanukkah video of the year comes from The Maccabeats
For more, you can check out the top 10 lists from 2012, 2011, and 2010.
-- Kevin Allocca & Bonnie Gleicher
Happy Holidays from YouTube Trends!
For a third year, we again look back at the top trending videos of the holiday season. This year, Epic Rap Battles -- who also produced one of 2012's overall top trending videos -- took the top spot as of Christmas Eve with it's Snoop Lion collaboration, "Moses vs Santa Claus".
You can see the full top 10 in the list below or via this playlist.
While it didn't break the top 10, the top Hanukkah video of the year was this Rube Goldberg Machine from the Israel Institute of Technology.
For more, you can check out the top 10 lists from 2011 and 2010.
YouTube searches for "fireworks" videos typically see a big spike each 4th of July in the United States (and a smaller one over New Years), but last week saw the biggest we've ever seen.
The culprit? A fireworks display "gone wrong" in San Diego, California, where the cities annual display -- meant to last close to 20 minutes -- was ignited and exploded all at once. Two of this past week's most-viewed videos globally are bystander videos of the beautiful accident. Over 30,000 fireworks-related videos were posted in the past week and the most popular footage was from the San Diego display, which so far been seen over 5 million times combined.
Below you can see a graph charting weekly U.S. search interest for the term "fireworks" that puts this year's spike in direct comparison with previous years'. (You'll notice an unexplained rise in searches in late 2010, for which Katy Perry is the likely culprit.)
San Diego's "Big Bay Boom 'Bust'", as it's being called, is now currently one of the most-viewed fireworks displays ever on YouTube. (The #1 fireworks video is from London's 2011 New Year's Eve celebration.)
You can see a collection of the videos from the San Diego display in the playlist below.
Yesterday was "Pi Day." You know, March 14. 3.14?
It's a day some people may remember from geometry class, but its now found a new following on the web, where fans of math and science routinely produce all sorts of "Pi"-related content on this obscure holiday.
In fact, over 1,000 videos tagged "Pi Day" were uploaded this week. Some took a straightforward approach, like this explainer from Numberphile:
While some people were a big more unconventional. The BYU Mathletes, seen here, used the opportunity to do something unique:
But not everybody is a fan. YouTube scribbler and self-described "mathemusician" Vi Hart produced this clip last year, that remains one of the most viewed Pi Day videos.
If you're interested, you can see Hart's 2012 video here.
Happy Holidays from YouTube Trends!
Today we look back at the past month and the top trends and videos of 2011 holiday season. Perhaps the most popular Trend of the season was that of the ambitious electrician/decorator crowd which produced a seemingly endless array of very impressive synchronized light shows that varied from pure spectacle to working video game! Check out a bunch in this playlist:
(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)
The most-viewed non-music video of December and top trending video of the holiday season was Jimmy Kimmel's "YouTube Challenge - I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present." The prank, which followed a very successful Halloween version, inspired hundreds of other videos to be posted in which parents played the practical joke on their unhappy children.
There are lots of popular videos and trends that didn't make our top 10 (see: Manta Claus) and we didn't include any of the popular major music videos (see: this).
The full list of the ones that did make it is below or you can watch them in a playlist here.
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See last year's top 10 here!
Over 400 videos have already been uploaded from the various "SantaCon" activities this weekend across the United States. (SantaCon is a mass gathering/parade/bar crawl that's become increasingly popular each holiday season.)
The majority of the videos so far come from New York City's festivities, but we've also seen them from San Francisco, Canada, and the UK. Check them all out in the playlist below. Of particular note are the scores of Santa's singing "We are the Champions" in New York's Grand Central Terminal:
(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)
We're only days into December, but Justin Bieber has already found a big audience for the holidays.
This fall/winter, Bieber has released a series of music videos tied to the holiday season -- some of which helped push him over 2 billion overall views on YouTube. That number continues to rise.
Below you can see a chart of the videos he's released and the number of views they've received since Thanksgiving. So far they've been seen over 30 million times.
In honor of Thanksgiving in the United States, we thought it appropriate to discuss a frightening trend that comes to mind during this holiday: turkey attack videos.
In October, this video of a news producer getting harassed by a wild turkey (with the camera rolling) became a viral hit, picking up over 450,000 views.
Meanwhile, these children decided to play bullfighter with a turkey, that is until the turkey got fed up. This clip from the Philippines just took off this week in time for the holiday:
Seriously, these turkeys are fearless. This one was captured on video in January going right after a mail truck:
If there was a whole holiday dedicated to your demise, you might be angry too. Angry enough to ruin a children's soccer game.
Happy Thanksgiving. And be safe out there.
Some of the top rising searches today on YouTube are tied to some Thanksgiving traditions both new and old. There are lots of searches (and newly uploaded videos) from Ohio State's famous annual Mirror Lake Jump.
You can see another video here.
Meanwhile, others search for info on Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving song -- you can learn to play it on guitar yourself here -- while others seek out clips from the classic Peanuts "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."
It's Halloween and while there are lots of spooky tunes cropping up among our top rising searches -- "Monster Mash" is a notable one -- it's certainly not a surprise to see Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" on the list. There are quite a few versions of "Thriller" and its famous dance available on YouTube from all around the globe and all different types of performers.
Here are 10 of the most-viewed:
(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)
Given that Halloween is one of the more colorful, creative holidays, its not surprising that we're seeing so many videos its inspired hitting YouTube. Tens of thousands of Halloween-related videos have been uploaded in the past week or so, some of which have millions of views.
Some of the most popular costume videos this year were these two similar clips of a "kidnapper" style costume. Oddly enough, they were both posted in 2009, but are suddenly seeing hundreds of thousands of views in 2011 after being featured on pop-culture sites. (It's been a big year for 2009 Halloween videos. Here's another.)
Costumes are great, but the trending Halloween video of the year is definitely this clip from some inventive California homeowners, which delivered an amazing synchronized light show to the tune of LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem." It's drawn over 3.5 million views so far and the most common search terms on YouTube this week associated with the word "Halloween" were "light show."
The Riverside home got some notice last Halloween when its "Thriller" video was seen nearly one million times.
There are actually quite a few other light shows that have also drawn interest this year, like this one synched up with "Crazy Train."
Read more about Halloween costumes at the YouTube Blog.
Some of the Most Shared videos on YouTube today are music videos celebrating the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hoshanah. In the U.S., this parody of Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO has been particularly popular. We first spotted it when it was trending in Israel earlier this month and it now has over 800,000 views.
AishVideo, which produced this clip, also created the Google Exodus video for Passover that was seen over 2 million times.'
Meanwhile, this music video is actually the second most-viewed of the month in Israel, with 1.2+ million views.
Yeshiva University's Maccabeats, who first made a name for themselves during Hanukkah with their very popular song parody "Candlelight," also created a new a capella mix for the Jewish New Year that was posted a few days ago and is based on One Republic's "Good Life."
MORE: Check out our look at Jewish Holiday A Capella.
