Gangnam Style reaches 1 billion views

[boba-holic.livejournal.com]

The thunderous gallop of the viral hit "Gangam Style" cannot be stopped.

Less than a month after becoming the most-watched YouTube video in history, Psy's music video became the first ever to surpass 1 billion views on the Google-owned video website.

As of Friday morning, the video had notched almost 400,000 views above that 10-figure threshold.

It's as much a milestone for the Korean pop star -- who's earning piles of money off of all those clicks -- as it is for YouTube. "Gangnam Style" is arguably best-known song of 2012, and it's hard to imagine the song that will earn that distinction in 2013 of getting this kind of recognition without a lot of help from YouTube or another online platform.

Source: Huffington Post

Everyone's probably over this song, but I thought a billion views is worth posting about x)

Comments

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

I was just checking to see how many views he was at now and he has got 33 million more views already. I wonder how many views it will have on it's 1 year anniversary :O

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

omg is this real?

[empressmaruja.livejournal.com]

I looked at it and... no.

Obama's official channel is "BarackObamadotcom."

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

WE HAVE A WHEN WILL YOUR FAVES TAG YES TY <3

[lee-chikin.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice 'till I read your comment. It's beautiful.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

OMG FOR REAL!? GO PSY!

[momomoing.livejournal.com]

OBAMA <33

[keeleym.livejournal.com]

But Obama's channel is BarackObamadotcom, not Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

I know :)

[shintotchi.livejournal.com]

I was hoping this article would get posted. Whether you are done with the song or not, at least acknowledge the accomplishment. One billion views is astounding.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

I love this video from 2:00 onward

[shintotchi.livejournal.com]

woooooow. Hilarious. It is amazing how conspiracy theorists just stick it out. Not as amazing as a billion views, but damn if they don't try. XD

[soramai.livejournal.com]

lmao, and we're still here.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

what if we all got fried in a split second by a solar flare

and this is the afterlife

[klauses.livejournal.com]

lmao this comment is cracking me up

[http://users.livejournal.com/___varying/]

IA. A lot of songs don't even get the chance to be tired of, lbr.

[ullielvidina.livejournal.com]

Noticing that the comments aren't as many as it used to be, I think OMONA netizens are already bored with this song.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

"already"

its been talked about for months longer than almost all kpop songs so thats not really surprising

[ullielvidina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

1 view for every 7 people on the planet

[gypsy-sonata.livejournal.com]

Congrats to Psy!

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

feels like yesterday when the song reached 100 million views and now it's already 1 billion.. crazy

[dysphoriia.livejournal.com]

it has gone up another 35 million views, wtf.
ok i just added another one to that.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

1 Billion Party for PSY! XDD

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

[hileahrious.livejournal.com]

for the record, I will never get sick of this song... I've deemed it impossible

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

So the conspiracy theory was wrong.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

it was just a cover for the real conspiracy!!

[kissuholic.livejournal.com]

am really proud of PSY and Gangnam style!! idk, but 1 billion views? that is really something that will be hard to beat.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Congrats to Psy!

[empressmaruja.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to PSY!

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Finally a when will your faves tag! Lol~
Congrats to Psy!