Who says only the latest hits can reach the top spot on YouTube? As the latest addition, REM’s “Losing My Religion” has just reached the platform’s exclusive “Billion Views Club” – the group of videos with more than a billion views.
Losing My Religion appeared on 1991’s Out of Time, the band’s seventh album. As a single, the song reached number 4 on the Billboard charts. The accompanying video won six awards at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video.
But that doesn’t make it the most watched music video on YouTube. Who holds the top position also depends on what you define as a music video: The most clicked video on YouTube is the nursery rhyme “Baby Shark Dance” with over 11 billion views.
Behind “Baby Shark” is Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” as the first ‘real’ music video with almost eight billion views, followed by Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” and Wiz Khalifa with “See You Again”. And the first-ever video to break the 1 billion mark, Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” is still on the list.
Here you will find the top ten – without children’s songs:
- “Despacito” – Luis Fonsi: 7.97 billion views
- “Shape of You” – Ed Sheeran: 5.80 billion
- “See You Again” – Wiz Khalifa: 5.63 billion
- “Uptown Funk” – Mark Ronson: 4.69 billion
- “Gangnam Style” – Psy: 4.54 billion
- “Dame Tu Cosita” – El Chombo: 4.06 billion
- “Sugar” – Maroon 5: 3.76: billion
- “Roar” – Katy Perry: 3.65: billion
- Counting Stars – One Republic: 3.64 billion
- “Sorry” – Justin Bieber: 3.58 billion