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Gangnam Style Crosses One Billion View Mark

This post originally appeared on the Official YouTube Blog

A million views? You know what's cool? A billion views.

Today, a 34-year-old K-Pop artist made online video history when his viral video, Gangnam Style, smashed all our records and became the first video ever to reach one billion views. Yup, that’s right one BILLION views!



PSY's success is a great testament to the universal appeal of catchy music-- and er, great equine dance moves. In the past, music distribution was mostly regional. It was more difficult to learn about great artists from around the world. But with a global platform at their fingertips, people are now discovering and sharing amazing music from all over the planet, by artists like Brazilian Michel Teló and Belgian-Australian Gotye.

One billion views is an incredible number, but the PSY-nomenon goes beyond that. Check out these stats:
  • PSY was already big in Korea, but in 2012, he became a global celeb as Gangnam Style quickly spread from Seoul and the pacific to North America, South America, and Europe. It’s been seen at least 1 million times in close to 75 countries, making it one of the most global music sensations ever!
  • From a one-thousand person flash mob in Jakarta to cover videos from Ai Weiwei and Mitt Romney, hundreds of thousands of parodies have been uploaded to YouTube, some of which have tens of millions of views. In fact, fan tributes to Gangnam Style are now being viewed 20 million times every single day.
  • PSY's own remix with Hyuna has 200 million views alone.
  • "Gangnam Style" was YouTube's top rising search of 2012 and on October 6th, we saw more than five million searches for “gangnam style” in a single day. Check out this video demonstrating some of our most popular YouTube searches this year.
  • For those interested in the business side: a number of assessments and projections have been posted claiming “Gangnam Style” has generated over $8.1 million in advertising deals, hit more than 2.9 million in song downloads since July, and achieved other incredible feats!
  • Since late last month, people have clicked to buy the track on iTunes over 600,000 times helping make PSY the first Korean artist ever to rank #1 on the U.S. iTunes chart and #1 in over 30 more countries.
Perhaps what’s most impressive about this feat is that it took just over five months to happen. To give this milestone some context, here’s a chart of Gangnam Style’s rise to popularity versus Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” the video that previously held the most-watched video title:



Congratulations to PSY, the flash mobbers, K-Pop fans and people who love fun across the globe. Considering the Gangnam Style dance was the number one dance-related search on YouTube this year, you better make sure you brush up on your moves before New Year's Eve.

The kind of amazing creativity and unique connection between people all over the world that resulted in this one billion views is only possible with an incredible community of people we're so lucky to have on YouTube. And we can't wait to see what you'll come up with next!
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'Gangnam Style' is Your International Hit of the Month

Only in 2012 can an off-the-wall music video from South Korea become a hit in the U.S. in a matter of just a few days. This month, Korean pop singer PSY's "Gangnam Style" surprised many by quickly climbing to the #3 spot on YouTube's music video charts.

Below you can track the number of views per day this video has registered around the world since it was posted:



North American interest in Korean pop music has been on the rise for some time now and it's not entirely uncommon to see a popular music video spread across the Pacific.

YouTube searches for PST's single hit their first peak in Korea on July 26, but searching in the U.S. and Canada for "gangnam" really started to spike a week later. Globally, the video began drawing the most attention this past weekend, and "gangnam style" is one of YouTube's top rising searches of August.

The video, which blends Korean and English, has been drawing over one million views per day, and is currently one of our most shared videos in South Korea as well as the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Belgium and Sweden.

Naturally, we've already started to see lots of parodies/homages as well. In the past two weeks, nearly 1,000 videos have been posted with "gangnam" (in English) in the title. And we can only hope they all feature the same dance...
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What's Hot in Ghana, Malaysia, Peru and More

Over the past few months, YouTube has launched localized versions of the site in a handful of new countries, which is great news for trends-seekers as we've also added these countries to our Trends Dashboard. This means you can stay on top of the most-viewed and most-shared videos in Chile, Ghana, Hungary, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Peru.

Below, we've highlighted a few popular music videos and trending clips from these locales and you can see more via our YouTube Trends Dashboard.

GHANAMALAYSIA

HUNGARYCHILE
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Big in India: The Singapore JK Wedding Dance?

One of 2009's most famous viral videos -- and a clip that you've certainly seen -- was the "JK Wedding Dance." The marital entrance, which was set to Chris Brown's "Forever" and captured at Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz's nuptials at a Minnesotta church, was a massive hit that's now been seen over 70 millian times.



Now, this week, one of the most-viewed and most-shared videos in India is some footage captured at a wedding in Singapore. Rather than Chris Brown, this wedding march, which took place at the Sree MahaMariamman Temple on February 12th, appears to be set to music from some Tamil-language Indian action-comedy films.

Either way, the reaction is essentially the same for the audience.
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Around the World: Most Viewed Videos of 2011

Continuing our 2011 retrospective, let's look back at what some of the most viewed videos in other countries were this year. (See the rest at YouTube Rewind.)

JAPAN:

Fun-loving residents celebrate the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen high speed rail line in Japan.



ISRAEL:

"Dip Your Apple" is a Rosh Hashanah-themed song parody of Shakira's "Waka Waka."



FRANCE:

French comedian Max Boublil created this year's hit video with his passionate tribute to "ugly" women.



SOUTH KOREA:

Sister provides a surprise at an elegant wedding:



CZECH REPUBLIC:

The President of the Czech Republic created a stir after allegedly "stealing a pen."



INDIA:

This epic trailer was the #2 most-watched clip.



MEXICO:

Werevertumorro has a big following in Mexico, where this birthday party video was very popular.
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Hot Music Videos from Africa

This week we added 7 new countries to our Trends Dashboard and, not unlike many other countries, music videos are among the most-shared and most-viewed in many of those regions. Today we wanted to take a look at the African continent where we've now added viewing data in Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria.

KENYA:



NIGERIA:



UGANDA:
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Around the World: Get Out of the Way

We know what the U.S. is watching, but here are some of the Most Viewed and Most Shared videos right now in different countries around the world:

CANADA:
Student protest timelapse		SOUTH KOREA:
Big new video of the week

POLAND:
Car Accident in Russia		TUNISIA:
'Occupy' Rally


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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Flooding Around the World: Ireland, Italy, Thailand

It's not uncommon to see flood videos on YouTube, but it's rare to see them trending from three separate regions around the world.

A number of videos are being heavily shared this week that depict flooding in Dublin. Among the most popular is this bystander video shot by a bus rider as the vehicle was supposedly filling with canal water.



Meanwhile, storms in Italy resulted in the flooding of picturesque town Monterosso. This footage is among the most-shared and -viewed in that country today.



(See some more recent footage from the town of Levanto here.)

And we've documented videos from Thailand before, but we're still seeing clips spreading from that region. This video appears to show a crocodile captured in the floodwaters. Over 100 were purported to have escaped into the waters around Bangkok.
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Big in Tunisia: Ben Ali Poster

The most-viewed video today in Tunisia and the most-shared in both Tunisia and Egypt is this political "PSA" that was posted by a the account EngagementCitoyen. In it, a giant poster of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is seen hung on a wall to the incredulous looks of passerby, reportedly in Tunis. Ben Ali was sentenced to jail in absentia after fleeing to Saudi Arabia during that countries famous uprising earlier in the year.

The crowd becomes gradually more irate until they tear it off the wall, revealing a special public service message...



More background is here in French. The ad is said to have been created by Memac Ogilvy in Tunis.

This kind of "guerilla" political video messaging is certainly not uncommon in the United States and it now appears to be spreading to North Africa following the revolutions in 2011.
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Nature vs. Man: Trending Videos from South Africa

Rising on YouTube this afternoon is the search term "antelope hits mountain biker." It's a reference to one of today's heavily-searched and top-trending videos, the footage of team Jeep mountain biker Evan van der Spuy and his unexpected collision with a red hartebeest antelope in Albert Falls Dam, South Africa:



That video has quickly reached over three million views.

But there have been some other videos this October that have been trending in South Africa and depict some more unfortunate meetings of man and nature. This video was captured in the moments following a shark attack in Fish Hoek in late September. (Here's video of another shark in that area a week later.) This clip has been viewed over one million times.



We also saw trending video last week of a deadly tornado that was spotted by a number of bystanders in Duduza near Johannesburg. There are many clips that have been posted, this one is one of the more widely-seen ones:
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Around the World: Attention Grabbers

We know what the U.S. is watching, but here are some of the Most Viewed and Most Shared videos right now in different countries around the world:

NEW ZEALAND:
Air New Zealand enlists the Hoff in a new wacky spot		Canada:
Hospital staffers come together to make a video for the pink gloves dance competition

UK:
Mysterious video of a whale found inland from the shore		AUSTRALIA:
It turns out that you can actually put a motor on anything


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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On the Scene Footage: Typhoon Roke

As Typhoon Roke made landfall in Japan, residents in the area began documenting and uploading the conditions in their area. A search for "typhoon" in Japanese results in nearly 2,000 videos of various kinds from the past 24 hours.

(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)



See more at YouTube.com/CitizenTube.
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Around the World: Public Displays

We know what the U.S. is watching, but here are some of the Most Viewed and Most Shared videos right now in different countries around the world:

NEW ZEALAND:
The "flash haka" trend continues		CZECH REPUBLIC:
Protest in Varnsdorf

GERMANY:
Enthusiastic fans from Borussia Dortmund		ISRAEL:
Rosh Hashanah gets a rock anthem.


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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Big in New Zealand: Flash Haka

The flash mob fad has certainly been around for a while, but creative flash mob organizers seem to keep churning out enough variations on the form to keep things fresh and draw viewers -- see: the most popular trend of the 2010 holiday season. While the dancing variety has come to dominate the form, there's still enough creativity to surprise viewers now and again.

The most shared and viewed video in New Zealand this week is of yet another iteration of the "flash mob" form we haven't seen before. This time, a group of gentlemen perform a "flash haka," which replaces the usual cheesy dace choreography with the intimidating dance of the Maori, best known internationally as a part of the pre-game ritual for the nation's world-famous rugby team, the All-Blacks.

The video event reportedly took place at Auckland's Sylvia Park shopping center and included 50 young men.



There are also other good angles of the flash performance making the rounds. Here are the two most popular, which are shot from up-close and from overhead.





This could actually be the start to a new flash haka trend as the Rugby World Cup -- which is being hosted by New Zealand, incidentally -- kicks off this Friday and runs for seven weeks.

More: Another popular video this weekend in New Zealand is this Go Pro camera footage from the streets of Christchurch, specifically the city center's "red zone" which remains cordoned off following the earthquake from earlier this year.
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Around the World: Surprises and Cheers

We know what the U.S. is watching, but here are some of the Most Viewed and Most Shared videos right now in different countries around the world:






CANADA:
Viral spot/experiment/prank		EGYPT:
Coca-Cola Ramadan Flashmob

AUSTRALIA:
Billabong surf highlights		MEXICO:
Improv's Werevertumorrow greet a big crowd.


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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Gaddafi's Hat: 'Zenga Zenga' Gets a Sequel

Auto-tuned news footage is nothing new here in the United States, but it's a trend that's recently also spread popular overseas in some interesting countries. Back in February, "Zenga Zenga" became the viral hit of the Middle East and North Africa and its been seen over 4 million times since then.

Tel Aviv DJ/musician Noy Alooshe created the very popular, mocking remix of Muammar Gaddafi's February speech, which spread from his home country of Israel to a number of other countries in the region. (He also produced a popular alternate version, which does not contain the dancing girls and could potentially be more "palatable" in some areas.)



Now that the tide has changed in Libya, Alooshe released something of a sequel to that video, utilizing an interview clip with a reported Libyan rebel that was widely seen in the days that anti-Gaddafi forces made their way into the heart of Tripoli:
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Popular in India: Dahi Handi Videos

Mumbai Monday was host to the festival of Janmashtami, a Hindu celebration which features a unique physical competition called the "Dahi Handi." The practice involves creating giant human pyramids in an attempt to smash a clay pot that is hung very high in the air.

Some of the pyramids can reach nine layers tall, and over 300 injuries were reported by Monday evening. A number of videos shot at the festival are among the most-shared in India today and we've pulled together a few of them into the playlist below.

(View full playlist here.)
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Trending in Australia: 790 on George

YouTube user dajapads posted this link on the social bookmarking site Reddit saying that his employer at a Sydney-based hostel, 790 on George, had asked him to create an ad for the establishment. "My boss told me to make an ad with no money," he wrote. "This is what happened."

The video -- which features tongue-in-cheek humor and very low-budget special effects -- became very popular on that site and is now appearing as one of the most-viewed videos today in Australia, according to our YouTube Trends Dashboard.
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Around the World: Up, Down, Around

We know what the U.S. is watching, but here are some of the Most Viewed and Most Shared videos right now in different countries around the world:






GERMANY:
Tokyo Drift in the living room		SOUTH AFRICA:
Flashmob proposal

BRAZIL:
Erratic reaction from an angry driver		ITALY:
Sinkhole/pothole swallows garbage truck


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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Huge Ads, Big Music Videos and More from Around the World

It's another day of fascinating and very popular videos from countries around the world:

BRAZIL:
Nissan's "Damned Pony" campaign propelled this video -- which has been seen nearly 7 million times -- to become one of the top-searched globally for the week.		SOUTH KOREA:
The latest music video from Super Junior is not just big in South Korea, it's huge all over Asia

SPAIN:
Police and protesters clash in Madrid		CZECH REPUBLIC:
Cute young dancers from Moldova


See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.
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