Surprisingly, the data also revealed that the online music video attracted more views from countries in North America and Europe than Japan and China, where K-pop already has a strong presence. The music video has also been watched more than thousand times even in Muslim countries in Africa and in the Middle East.
Malaysia and Canada placed fourth and fifth with 6.79 million and 3.65 million views. The number of views for the viral song’s music video in the United States topped the list with 19.36 million, followed by Korea and Thailand with 17.06 million and 8.97 million, respectively. As of Sunday, “Baby Shark Dance”(2016) by Korean company Pinkfong has 8 billion views, followed by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi’s "Despacito" music video (2017) with 7.2 billion views and English singer songwriter Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” video (2017) with 5.2 billion views.Korean singer Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video drew more than 130 million views from 220 countries around the world in less than two months, recent data provided by YouTube showed on Tuesday. Despite its records on YouTube, “Gangnam style” is no longer its most-viewed video.
Inspiring numerous memes and parodies across the world, the music video gave new prominence to the global wave of K-pop. Released in July 2012, the video of “Gangnam Style” garnered 1 billion views in five months and became the first single video to do so in the history of the YouTube platform. It shows a cartoon of him sitting on the numerals 4.0. Psy, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, uploaded a celebratory image Sunday on his Twitter account and on the Instagram account of P Nation, an entertainment company he founded. The music video of the 2012 worldwide hit “Gangnam Style” by singer-songwriter Psy reached 4 billion views on YouTube on Sunday, a first for a K-pop single. Singer-songwriter Psy uploaded this image to celebrate that the music video of his 2012 worldwide hit “Gangnam Style” reached 4 billion views on YouTube on Sunday, a first for a K-pop single.
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