When South Korean PSY’s catchy song Gangnam Style became the first video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube in December 2012, many thought it was a difficult milestone to repeat. Not only was it surpassed, but it is no longer even among the Top 10 visits on Google’s multimedia platform.
Next, you have a list with the 10 most viewed videos in the history of YouTube , with views data valid as of March 4, 2022. As you can see, we mainly have children’s songs on YouTube and great hits that were played on the radio for years (and still do from time to time) and were successful on their respective Vevo’s.
10. Uptown Funk
London-based music producer Mark Ronson‘s theme song featuring Bruno Mars premiered in 2014 and became an instant hit, quickly becoming one of the most popular and most liked ever.
This catchy musical theme was not only on all the radios in the world and on the dance floors of the clubs, but it was also a success on YouTube where it accumulates 4,480 million views and continues to grow, although at a slower rate than in subsequent years. at its premiere.
9. Masha and the Bear
Currently, Masha and the Bear can be seen streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Movistar Plus and HBO Max. It is the story about a curious girl named Masha and her adorable bear friend as they go on lively adventures to the rhythm of popular children’s songs.
The episode “Recipe for Disaster” of this Russian series has been of special interest if we take into account that it currently has a total of 4,485 million views .
8.A For Apple
ChuChu TV is a channel of Indian origin that creates educational content for children. Its catchy, rhyming letters teach colors, shapes, numbers, and all things preschool.
This particular video teaches the alphabet to the little ones with words with two syllables in English. In total, it accumulates 4,492 million views .
7. Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm
Another educational video for the little ones that has positioned itself among the Top 10 is this one about learning the colors of the Russian channel Miroshka TV.
On this occasion, the colors are taught on this farm through a song that accumulates 4,556 million views.
6.Bath Song
Once again, children’s songs for everyday tasks are the ones that are reproduced the most, as they are a good resource for fathers and mothers with which to entertain their children, and CoComeleon is a channel specialized in this subject.
It’s just a song about bath time with a catchy chorus, but it already has 5.052 million views .
5. See You Again
If we add one of the highest-grossing film franchises in history, Fast & Furious , with the nostalgic element caused by the death of one of its protagonists, Paul Walker , the result is a success that is largely to blame for the channel of rapper Wiz Khalifa accumulates 26 million subscribers.
This melancholic theme sung with Charlie Puth is the one that appears in one of the moments of the film in which Walker is honored to also say goodbye to his character Brian O’Conner in Fast & Furious 7. It currently has 5,430 million views .
4.Shape of You
The British musician and singer is one of the most popular artists on the platform, with more than 51 million subscribers. These faithful increase to millions any new topic that Ed Sheeran uploads .
However, his biggest success to date, at least in number of views, is the theme Shape of You, with 5.633 million views . It holds the record for the third fastest video to reach 1 billion views and is the second fastest to reach 2 billion, as well as 3 billion.
3. Yes Papa
The bronze medal in number of views goes to another children’s video about a naughty baby, Johny, who tries to eat sweets secretly from his father.
With its rhythm based on Campanita del Lugar, it has already accumulated a whopping 6,207 million views .
2. Slowly
Whether you liked the musical genre or not, you have had to live disconnected from the Internet until today in order not to have listened, voluntarily or not, to Despacito. The featuring between Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee swept Latin music and crossed borders since it was released in early 2017.
It seems that the furor over this topic has already passed, but its current counter of 7,763 million views should give it a margin to continue in the Top 10 for many more years.
1.Baby Shark
The gold medal goes to Baby Shark Dance , produced by Korea ‘s Pinkfong . It is a perfect song for children, with a catchy rhythm, simple and short lyrics and a funny dance for the little ones.
Few may have expected, however, that as much as boys and girls like it, it would end up reaching 10,273 million views , being the only video at the moment that has managed to overcome that barrier of 10,000 million.