Psy gallops past 1 billion views on YouTube
The horse-dancing video yesteryear Korean popular star Psy has piece of job the start out video on YouTube to live on on 1 billion views.
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” video reached the milestone on Dec 21, as well as at the fourth dimension of writing stood at 1,046,274,259 views.
The song, featuring Psy’s horse-riding trip the lite fantastic toe moves, reached the historic milestone 27 days afterwards overtaking Justin Bieber’s “Baby” video equally the most viewed clip on the website.
Psy topped Bieber’s 803 1000000 views as well as ploughed on at 76.4 views per instant to attain the billion mark.
By comparsion, “Baby” is proceeding at almost iii views per second.
The website Billboard.com estimates that “Gangnam Style” has generated $US2 1000000 inwards advertising revenue from YouTube as well as nearly $US4 1000000 from digital downloads.
The vocal was released 5 months ago.
Psy, 34, whose existent cry is Park Jae Sang, has been touring the basis on the dorsum of his “Gangnam Style” success.
Gangnam Style finally calendar month became the start out Korean vocal to live on on Britain’s official popular chart.
Psy’s horse-dance moves bring spawned hundreds of parodies.
YouTube noted inwards its trending blog: “It’s been a massive hitting at a global degree dissimilar anything we’ve always seen before.”
Gangnam Style, the championship of both the vocal as well as the album, is named afterwards the affluent Gangnam District inwards Seoul.
Psy revealed before this calendar month it took him xxx nights to perfect the dance.
He tried as well as rejected elephant, monkey as well as kangaroo moves. Even slithering ophidian manoeuvres got a try-out.
He finally decided that his Equus caballus moves were the answer, he said inwards an address to the Oxford Union debating society.
Online music magazine NME reported Psy equally saying: “I tried every creature: elephant, monkey, kangaroo, snake. The kangaroo hopping was likewise slow, as well as thence nosotros ended upwardly imitating a horse.”
Psy explained he invented the trip the lite fantastic toe featured inwards the video afterwards beingness offered a topographic point dancing on a tv show.
“I was as well as thence desperate to larn noticed I went to a TV production companionship inwards Korea as well as started doing a trip the lite fantastic toe – a crazy trip the lite fantastic toe – upwardly as well as downwardly the corridors,” he said.
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