CHICAGO:It is 2 billion and counting for Psy and his insuppressible Gangnam Style. The South Korean pop star’s hit has surprisingly become the first YouTube video to exceed 2 billion views, crossing the mark around just before midnight EDT Friday.
The viral star now holds the record for most overall views and most views for a day with 38 million for his “Gangnam Style” follow up “Gentleman.”
No other video has come close to “Gangnam” on the video sharing site YouTube’s list of top videos. Justin Bieber’s “Baby” is the only other video at billion plus views at 1.04 billion. Cute kid video “Charlie bit my finger – again!” is a remote third with just 711 million views. Psy has three videos in the top 15 on the site.
Even YouTube congratulated PSY for the honour in a message posted on its Google+ account short before noon Saturday, PHL time. Google owns YouTube.
“The most-viewed video on YouTube just hit another jaw-dropping milestone. Congrats on your 2 billionth view, PSY!” YouTube said.
As of Saturday noon, the video that was published on July 2012 had 2,000,043,529 views. To celebrate the achievement, animated icons of a dancing PSY were situated on the area of the page that shows the number of views.
Clicking the icons trigger an animation on top of the page. The animation portrays some people dancing to “Gangnam Style” to celebrate the two billion mark.
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