Tubefilter: 10 years ago, there were no YouTube videos with a billion views. Now, 317 music videos have reached that mark.

Tubefilter: 10 years ago, there were no YouTube videos with a billion views. Now, 317 music videos have reached that mark.. “Psy‘s groundbreaking music video, which played a significant role in the global expansion of K-pop, arrived on YouTube on July 15, 2012. In November of that year, ‘Gangnam Style’ became the all-time most-watched video on YouTube. A few weeks after that, it became the first video to crack the billion-view threshold. Ten years later, ‘Gangnam Style’ is no longer the most-viewed music video on YouTube.”

Eyerys: Psy’s “Gangnam Style” Reaching 3 Billion Views On YouTube

Eyerys: Psy’s “Gangnam Style” Reaching 3 Billion Views On YouTube. “Psy was one of the few that initially introduced billions of people to K-pop music with “Gangnam Style”. Released in July 2012, it was the first YouTube video that reached 1 billion views, and it finally reached 3 billion on November 26 at about 8AM KST. This was three years after Gangnam Style ‘broke’ YouTube for reaching 2,147,483,647 views, and two years Psy received the Diamond Play Button from YouTube for reaching 10 million subscribers on his official YouTube channel.”