
The data, which YouTube shared via a press release, broke out the top music videos by the last four decades, based on the year they were originally released because, of course, YouTube has only been around since 2004. Related: Maroon 5 Announce Massive 2020 Tour With Leon Bridges & Meghan Trainor Finally, the number nine spot goes to OneRepublic's 2013 barn-stomping pop hit, "Counting Stars." The seventh most video of all time goes to the song that allegedly prompted a stranger to throw sugar at Adam Levine's face, Maroon 5's GRAMMY-nominated hit "Sugar." The 2015 track's visual has over three billion views on YouTube and is followed by Katy Perry's 2013 GRAMMY-nominated empowerment anthem, " Roar" at over 2.9 million views. Fifth place goes to PSY's 2012 meme-ready viral hit, "GANGNAM STYLE," at over 3.4 billion video views. These two music videos have over 4.3 billion and over 3.7 views, respectively.


10 with over 2.8 billion video views.Īs for the third and fourth spots, we have 2015's "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, a GRAMMY-nominated song from the Furious 7 Soundtrack, and 2014's GRAMMY-winning bop " Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. Another one of the British pop star's GRAMMY-winning songs, 2014's "Thinking Out Loud," also makes the list, at No. The second most-viewed music videos on YouTube is one of the other catchy-as-hell, inescapable hits of 2017: Ed Sheeran's GRAMMY-winning "Shape Of You," which has over 4.5 billion views to date. Related: Who Ruled Music Streaming In 2019? In fact, each of the top 10 videos has racked up over two billion views.

6, for his 2015 bop "Sorry." The Purpose track earns the spot with over 3.2 billion views. To be clear, this is the original version, not the Justin Bieber-assisted remix, although the pop sensation also makes the top 10 list, at No. Not surprisingly, Luis Fonsi's and Daddy Yankee's huge 2017 Latin GRAMMY-winning hit, " Despacito," earns the spot of the most-streamed music video of all time with over 6.5 billion (!) views to date. YouTube has released data for the most streamed music videos of all time on its platform.
