Becomes First Single Video on the Internet to Reach 1B Milestone
PSYs “Gangnam Style” has just become the first video in the history of the Internet to surpass one billion views.
At some point in the 10 o’clock hour ET on Friday (Dec. 21), PSY’s mega-hit reached this unprecedented milestone just 27 days after surpassing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most watched video on YouTube. The video’s YouTube page updated with 1,000,382,639 at 10:50 a.m. A precise time has not been announced.
In the days after breaking the 803 million YouTube view record, “Gangnam Style” has sustained over 6.5 million views per day – that’s 76.4 view per second.
