In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. The billion-view mark was first passed by
Gangnam Style didn't take long to take the accolade of being the first video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, receiving that honor in December 2012. It reached 2 billion views in June 2014, and 3 billion in January 2018.
1. “Baby Shark Dance” by Pinkfong (11.90 billion views)
So far 331 videos have reached over one billion views, 44 videos have reached two billion views, 16 videos have reached three billion views, at least 10 videos have reached four billion views, 7 videos have reached five billion views, and 2 videos have reached seven billion views, both being Despacito and Baby Shark.
So for a major-label song on YouTube that generates 1 billion views across all videos that use it, the label and artist would generate closer to $2.1 million.
'Minecraft' YouTube reaches 1 trillion views, thanks to Gen Z.
Using Forbes's estimated pay rate of $5 per 1,000 views, a YouTube video with 1,000,000 views can make upward of $5,000, which makes being a modern-day influencer a pretty lucrative job!
Fastest viral videos based on days needed to reach 1 billion views 2022. Despite having long been surpassed by Luis Fonsi's global smash hit "Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee" in terms of total views, Adele's record for fastest video release to generate one billion views still stands as of September2022.
In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in December 2012. On January 13, 2022, Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" became the first video to hit 10,000,000,000 views.
As of November 2022, T-Series had reached surpassed 207 billion lifetime video views, making it the most-viewed YouTube channel owner of all time. Popular children's rhymes and song channel Cocomelon followed, with 143.7 billion lifetime views.
A YouTube video with 1 billion views can make upwards of $5,000. According to a variety of sources, YouTubers can make anywhere from $0.01 to $0.30 per ad view with an average of $0.18 per view.
Butter by BTS is the video that has garnered the fastest 1 million views on YouTube.
Just over 200 music videos have surpassed the one billion views mark on YouTube, the beloved streaming service that launched 15 years ago. The first video to reach a billion views was Psy's “Gangnam Style” in 2012. Then it was Bieber, naturally, with “Baby” in 2015.
Fred Figglehorn, known simply as Fred, was the first YouTube creator to reach one million subscribers. In 2009, Lucas Cruikshank's FRED channel was the very first to hit 1 million subscribers.
J Balvin and Justin Bieber are tied for the most billion views entries as a lead, featured artist or collaborator, with 11 official music videos each, Adele's “Hello” is the fastest entry into the Billion Views Club, reaching the milestone in just 88 days, and Guns N' Roses defy decades with the first billion-view ...
This year, Minecraft YouTube passed a nearly unimaginable milestone: Videos related to the game have been viewed more than one trillion times. If each of those one trillion views were just one second long, that would add up to over 30,000 years.
Fastest viral videos based on number of views in 24 hours as of 2022. In March 2022, the fastest viral video based on the number of views in 24 hours after its upload was iQIYI's fantasy action film Double World.
Santa (1995). Brian Graden sent copies of Jesus vs. Santa to several of his friends, and from there it was copied and distributed, including on the internet, where it became one of the first viral videos.
The most-subscribed channel as of December 2022 is T-Series, an Indian music video publisher operated by the entertainment company of the same name.
The most-subscribed channel is that of Indian record label T-Series, which hosts its music videos on its channel. With over 233 million subscribers as of January 2023, the channel has held the top position since April 14, 2019.
Silver play button awards are achieved with 100k channel subscribers. Gold play buttons are awarded at 1 million subscribers. The Diamond play button is awarded at 10 million subscribers. The Custom Creator award or custom play button is awarded to channels that gain a following of 50 million subscribers.
Although these records are incredible and seem difficult to break, BTS, and ARMY, are known to do the impossible, over and over again. They proved it once more and broke their record for most-viewed music video in one hour (held by 'Dynamite'), overhauling the record on May 21, 2021 with their song 'Butter'.