YOUTUBE TOP VIDEOS

GIGAVIEW IS NEW NORMAL

Bigly Big Data, naturlich! YouTube Top-10 most viewed videos of all time starts with “Despasito” by Luis Fonsi scoring 7 GigaViews (Billion Views). This astronomical number close to estimated world population of 7.7B greatly exceeds entire Internet user-base (about 3.9B users worldwide), thus raising a reasonable concern regarding the accuracy of YouTube view stats reporting.

The entrance level to YouTube Top-10 is currently about 3 GigaViews. Notably, 9 entries pertain to music-videos category. Most lyrics written in English, except for “Despasito” and “Chantaje” (both in Spanish). The only non-music video “Masha and the Bear” ('Маша и Медведь') is presented in Russian.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

First in Giga range. Historically, the first video item to break the gigaview mark was "Baby" by Justin Bieber. Interestingly, this video had very low 'likability' (Like/Dislike) ratio of about 40%. Currently, it's not even appeared in Top-10 league.

SIC TRANSIT. Notably, neither Madonna nor Michael Jackson made it to top-20 list. Not even close! Well, sic transit gloria mundi, as the old saying goeth...