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Most-Viewed YouTube Music Videos

Try to name the musical acts who recorded the most-viewed music videos of all-time on Youtube.
As of 16 June, 2022
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Last updated: June 16, 2022
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First submittedApril 4, 2013
Times taken103,263
Average score58.6%
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Song
Artist
7.87 b
Despacito
Luis Fonsi
5.74 b
Shape of You
Ed Sheeran
5.54 b
See You Again
Wiz Khalifa
4.60 b
Uptown Funk
Mark Ronson
4.45 b
Gangnam Style
Psy
3.71 b
Sugar
Maroon 5
3.60 b
Roar
Katy Perry
3.59 b
Counting Stars
OneRepublic
3.55 b
Sorry
Justin Bieber
3.46 b
Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran
3.30 b
Girls Like You
Maroon 5
3.29 b
Faded
Alan Walker
3.29 b
Dark Horse
Katy Perry
3.24 b
Let Her Go
Passenger
3.22 b
Bailando
Enrique Iglesias
3.22 b
Lean On
Major Lazer and
DJ Snake
3.18 b
Perfect
Ed Sheeran
3.18 b
Shake it Off
Taylor Swift
Views
Song
Artist
3.16 b
Waka Waka
(This Time for Africa)
Shakira
3.09 b
Mi Gente
J Balvin
and Willy William
2.98 b
Hello
Adele
2.98 b
Blank Space
Taylor Swift
2.83 b
We Don't Talk Anymore
Charlie Puth
2.82 b
Closer
The Chainsmokers
2.76 b
Baby
Justin Bieber
2.74 b
Chantaje
Shakira
2.68 b
Rockabye
Clean Bandit
2.67 b
New Rules
Dua Lipa
2.59 b
Work From Home
Fifth Harmony
2.57 b
This is What You Came For
Calvin Harris
2.54 b
Calma
Pedro Capó
2.52 b
All About That Bass
Meghan Trainor
2.51 b
Stressed Out
Twenty One Pilots
2.51 b
Con Calma
Daddy Yankee
2.51 b
Chandelier
Sia
2.42 b
Love the Way You Lie
Eminem
+10
Level 21
Apr 5, 2013
quite challenging, good quiz :)
+12
Level 39
Oct 23, 2017
I wanted to put System of a Down so bad for "Sugar" and I was thinking this quiz was wrong until I saw the real answer and remembered Maroon5 existed...
+2
Level 57
Apr 4, 2020
Lol me too
+15
Level 32
Apr 5, 2013
I am ashamed to know most of these.
+1
Level 59
Oct 5, 2016
:-)
+4
Level 74
Oct 14, 2017
Same - I was surprised how well I did!
+1
Level 58
May 29, 2019
Me too.
+2
Level 39
Apr 6, 2013
oops, I thought it was "Carly Rae Jensen".. got 16
+7
Level 85
Dec 2, 2016
How fast things change. She doesn't appear to be on the list anymore.
+12
Level 82
May 31, 2018
I mean, there are more than three years between your comments, so not that fast.
+10
Level 14
Apr 10, 2013
They should accept Rihanna for love the way you lie.
+1
Level 33
May 23, 2017
rihanna is ft
+13
Level 31
Jul 30, 2013
Oh god, this is what people call music? These are the most viewed videos? This generation is awful. I wish I wasn't a part of it. Where are Queen, Iron Maiden and AC/DC when you need them?
+34
Level 77
Aug 29, 2013
The same place that these videos will be in 25 years. I hate it too, but everyone hates the next generation's taste in music. This too shall pass.
+12
Level 20
Oct 5, 2016
No, I hate my generation of music. I agree with 098
+1
Level 70
Jan 19, 2021
same
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Level 73
Jun 28, 2022
I'm part of this generation, and on this entire list, I either hate every artist or haven't even heard of them. There is good modern music. None of it is what your average moron likes.
+55
Level 69
Aug 1, 2014
And where's Beethoven, Bach, Mozart,...? Lol, I don't say I like them most viewed artists but I don't like your choice either. There's no point in insulting each other's taste in music...
+46
Level 52
Oct 5, 2016
i prefer tuvan throat singing, native to the people of inner mongolia
+1
Level 32
Nov 2, 2017
and now despacito is taking over anything
+2
Level 84
Nov 10, 2019
LOL, ManchesterUtd10!! You got a like from a Liverpool fan!
+8
Level 63
May 29, 2019
This is the same as it's always been. 30 years ago it would have been Bros, Jive Bunny, Rick Astley and Bananarama racking up the views. 20 years ago it'd have been the Spice Girls, Boyzone, Peter Andre and Steps racking up the views.

Iron Maiden are where they've always been and they are still going strong. To be honest, I don't want billions of kids who don't know musicianship and proper music watching their music videos. I'm happy to leave them to their easily digestable formulaic generic pop hits. Let a few of the lucky ones find Iron Maiden when their tastes mature and they go searching for authentic music.

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Level 60
May 29, 2019
oh god no people are making different music to 40 years ago god people are so distasteful why is my generation so plastic oh my god gen z is so baaaaddd my god i hate children i'm so quirky with my superior music tastes who even is taylor swift anyway all her songs are the same electronic music isn't real music my god calvin harris has no talent rihanna can't sing why wasn't i born in the 80s kids these days are robots that all follow the same trend bohemian rhapsody is where it's at am i right i love queen and abba kids these days have wrong opinions
+25
Level 57
Mar 28, 2020
This is the most boomer thing I've ever seen
+2
Level 78
Oct 2, 2021
Meaning the most accurate thing you've ever seen
+13
Level 70
Jan 17, 2022
No, I believe he meant the most boomer thing he'd ever seen.
+6
Level 78
Oct 2, 2021
I'm 19 and listen mostly to swing and big band music. I have no knowledge of 'contemporary' Billboard music.
+4
Level 80
Jun 17, 2022
It's not that this is the list of the best music on the planet. it's a list based on the most-watched music videos, which is going to skew towards songs that have videos that are released recently. exactly how many music videos has Queen released in the past decade?
+3
Level 77
Jun 28, 2022
In a retirement home.
+1
Level 71
Jun 28, 2022
I notice a lot of people on this site who rail against contemporary pop often cite heavy metal bands as the alternative. But like, are those really the only two options? Queen is my favorite band, but they are pretty mainstream. The other bands, Iron Maiden and AC/DC, I don't enjoy and don't listen to. On the other hand, I listen to a lot of mainstream pop from '60s and '70s and '80s. While I agree with many that popular music today is trashy, I don't see why something being "mainstream" makes it bad. It can still be artistic and creative and emotionally moving, and many of the mainstream artists of the past were awesome.
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Level 75
Jun 28, 2022
Don't know how to tell you this, but AC/DC has as little merit in terms of music as any of these bands. Iron Maiden and Queen, sure, they are both more talented and artistic than most of these acts... but AC/DC is probably not where you want to hang your hat if you're going to look down on people's taste in music.
+1
Level 32
May 15, 2023
Bohemian Rhapsody, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and Don't Stop Me Now are among the most streamed songs of all time, so its not like people don't appreciate old music. In 20 years or so, this list will certainly be entirely different from now.
+5
Level 33
Aug 8, 2014
I knew only seven. Then I checked some of the missed songs... Well, it was better not to know it.
+8
Level 76
Jun 10, 2015
I KEPT GUESSING WHAM FOR "WAKE ME UP". LOL
+5
Level 83
Jun 28, 2015
I tried Evanescence
+4
Level 69
May 21, 2019
But the Evanescence song is called "Bring Me To Life", isn't it?
+2
Level 60
May 29, 2019
I thought I misspelt Evanescence and ended up with Evenascensce before I remembered.
+1
Level 38
Dec 28, 2015
LOL me too
+1
Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
I tried wham, but after reading the comment below I got a piece of that song in my head ( I think I only know the chorus)
+2
Level 56
Jun 28, 2015
"Most-Viewed Youtube Videos" & "Name the musical acts who recorded the most-viewed music videos of all-time on Youtube." The exclusion of non-music videos ruined the quiz for me. Even though after a little research I found this excludes only 1 video: "Charlie Bit My Finger – Again!"
+63
Level 67
Jun 28, 2015
Dear everyone: we get it. This is not "music." You don't like these songs. This generation is terrible. You're the only kid at your school that likes Pink Floyd. High-five.

I say this as someone who doesn't care for pretty much anything mainstream: get over yourself. This music is for tweens & young teens, which is why it dominates YouTube. There is plenty of good music today, but it's not what tweens listen to, because tweens have always liked and will always like cheesy, mass-marketed stuff. Every generation detests the culture of the one that follows it. Your parents probably think what you like is stupid, and their parents thought the Beatles were stupid. Katy Perry's music is terrible...but so what? You really resent 13-year-old girls dancing to it in their bedrooms? This is somehow a problem for you? Let them have a little fun. There will always be someone who can look down on what you enjoy. Maybe instead you just let people enjoy themselves.

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Level 65
Jun 28, 2015
WORD!
+9
Level 48
Oct 7, 2016
+1 And this 50-something says give some credit to Ed Sheeran, LMFAO, Maroon 5 and Adele.
+24
Level 52
Feb 22, 2018
The only music I listen to is the drumbeats of the cavemen of central Ethiopia. Millenials.
+1
Level 77
Jun 28, 2022
in my day we had to make our OWN music. Instruments? LUXURY!
+2
Level 71
Jun 28, 2022
Just as a side note, I don't listen to Katy Perry much, but she herself has named Alanis Morrissette, Freddie Mercury, The Beatles, and The Beach Boys (specifically Pet Sounds, arguably of the greatest albums ever made) as major inspirations. It's fine if you don't enjoy her music that much, but she's also probably not as stupid as you think she is.
+1
Level 67
Jun 28, 2022
I never suggested Katy Perry is stupid, and I don't think she is stupid. I said her music is terrible, because it is. Bad music can come from smart people.
+2
Level 32
Jun 28, 2015
Psy had 2344 bil
+1
Level 90
Jun 29, 2015
Could you please accept just Telo? My Portuguese wasn't good enough to get Michel right.
+1
Level 83
Sep 12, 2016
I only got it when I ran out of answers after originally being discouraged when Telo didn't work. Fortunately I came back to it and apparently that piece of knowledge was in fact lodged somewhere deep down in my brain.
+4
Level 75
Jul 4, 2015
I've never heard a single song on this list, but it's not my generation so I didn't expect to. I was happy to get 5 just by guessing names I've seen on other quizzes. And yeah, I think music from the '60s is the best, and yeah, my parents hated it almost as much as I hated disco which came next.
+1
Level 78
Oct 2, 2021
I love both 60s music and disco!
+1
Level 59
Dec 28, 2015
This really needs updating. Adele's Hello already has 800,000,000 views.
+1
Level 28
Jan 7, 2016
i love the song propuesta indecente, thats how i know it!
+6
Level 60
Apr 13, 2016
Despite serially rewatching every Warren Zevon video on YouTube, he doesn't make the list.
+2
Level 78
Oct 2, 2021
You haven't watched it enough then.
+1
Level 38
May 16, 2016
Only missed 1 :) Avicii because I forgot the spelling.
+1
Level 69
May 20, 2016
this list needs updating.
+1
Level 70
Oct 5, 2016
Oh Jeezuz, I've gotten old. I have no idea about today's music. Got only 4/24. Also, why are some of these already filled in?
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Level 44
Oct 6, 2016
They're already filled in because if say you guessed Justin Bieber correctly for one of the first few answers, it automatically fills in all the other answers that are also Justin Bieber. Maybe it could be changed so the 'answer only corresponds to the highlighted box'
+1
Level 52
Oct 5, 2016
guessed 'cake' first for let her go even though i knew it wasnt the answer...
+1
Level 39
Oct 5, 2016
I am pretty sure it was Bailamos and not Bailando by Enrique
+1
Level ∞
Oct 6, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsoVlDFqZg
+2
Level 50
Jan 29, 2018
Bailamos was back then in 1999... Now it's ¡Bailando!
+19
Level 44
Oct 6, 2016
Please! No more comments saying "these are so called 'musicians'" and "what happened to good music?"

In your opinion, what you call good music is good for you, whereas other people would find current music good. You only think your music is 'good' because it is the music from your youth, and it may bring back happy memories. I am 16 years old, and the music I like most is chart music from around 2006 to 2014, although I like some current music too, however I do find that some music recently I haven't enjoyed whatsoever. This is because it isn't similar to the music I listened to when I was younger, therefore it sounds strange and new, not familiar to me, thus I "don't like current music". Keep your opinions to yourself, and don't go spreading hate, there is already enough of that in the world to go around.

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Level 44
Oct 6, 2016
lol a 16 year old talking about his good ole days "when (he) was younger."
+2
Level 60
Feb 13, 2017
Amen! Preach it up in here! Totally agree with you!
+5
Level 31
Oct 6, 2016
The title should be "Most viewed songs on Youtube" not "Most viewed Youtube videos" Its misleading.
+1
Level 14
Oct 8, 2016
Got 23 because I don't know Romeo Santos
+1
Level 71
Oct 10, 2016
I really love Chris Bliss Juggling Final where he juggles to music from the Beatles ....... marvellous ......... see http://chrisbliss.com/amazing-juggling-finale-page/
+1
Level 61
Feb 15, 2017
23/24- never heard of propuesta indecente
+2
Level 15
Apr 15, 2017
you could change it to most viewed music videos.

nice quiz

+1
Level 26
May 29, 2017
please update
+1
Level 23
Jun 22, 2017
I saw "love me like you do" on the list, and at first glance, i thought it said "love me do" and i was like, MAYBE PEOPLE DO HAVE A GOOD TASTE IN MUSIC!!!!!

the beatles

+1
Level 56
Jul 26, 2017
This needs to be updated.
+2
Level 65
Aug 23, 2017
You should update this, See you Again has overtaken Gangnam Style.... why do I know that?
+1
Level 36
Sep 3, 2017
despacito is the most viewed now
+1
Level 72
Sep 24, 2017
Just saying. But this quiz definitely needs to be updated
+2
Level 71
Nov 11, 2017
Update please
+2
Level ∞
Nov 11, 2017
Okay
+8
Level 60
Jan 12, 2018
What're the odds of at least twenty cantankerous adults and edgy socially outcasted teens complaining about how all of this music is terrible and that the seventies were better as opposed to letting people enjoy what they want to enjoy?
+1
Level 78
Oct 2, 2021
I'm one of those 'edgy socially outcasted teens'.
+1
Level 71
Jun 28, 2022
I wouldn't consider myself an edgy socially outcast teen and I enjoy '70s music more. If you don't want fans of older music to judge modern music, it has to go the other way too--fans of new music should respect people with older tastes (including young people who like old music, of which there are many).
+1
Level 59
Jan 15, 2018
Just hit me that Rihanna doesn't have one classic single or album
+1
Level 54
Nov 7, 2018
despacito
+4
Level 45
Dec 10, 2018
I feel like this should be reversed. Give an artist, guess the song that made the most views. (otherwise it's just guessing "who made what?", and not "what's most viewed?")
+1
Level 53
Feb 3, 2019
Needs another update, I think.
+1
Level 53
Aug 26, 2021
I'm gonna politely request that this gets another update.
+4
Level 66
Feb 27, 2019
I can never remember the name of the guy that actually did Uptown Funk, since all the video and most of the singing is Bruno Mars. I wish he was an acceptable answer.
+2
Level 36
Nov 22, 2020
yeah, I was really confused when it wasn't him
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Level 72
Jun 20, 2022
He's in almost as much of the video as Bruno Mars is...
+1
Level 88
May 10, 2019
I recognize 4 of these with the answers. I thought Perfect was by Pink.
+1
Level 56
May 29, 2019
Where's I Feel Fantastic and Obey The Walrus?
+2
Level 70
May 29, 2019
I tried Nine Inch Nails, Shawn Mullins, and Wham. I really don't know current musicians.
+1
Level 78
May 29, 2019
Got 6/27 and I'm seventeen. Most of these I haven't even heard of before.
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Level 49
May 30, 2019
how bout old town road LOL
+1
Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
Got 5 right, heard of 4 more.. This one wasnt for me. I am not great on history either, or rather local geography (cities and areas you only know when you are form that specific country or just like geography) But often I pick something up there. I think after this quiz I have forgotten all the answers again.
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Level 73
Jun 25, 2019
2:04 left. I follow this kind of things a lot, but I think it would be more challenging if we got the artist and should guess the song.
+2
Level 50
Aug 3, 2019
Alan Walker and The Chainsmokers are amazing ♡
+1
Level 29
Aug 23, 2019
I am proud to say, that the only one I knew was "Gangnam Style". :-P
+1
Level 65
Jul 30, 2021
mine's faded
+1
Level 49
Feb 11, 2020
November Rain Guns n roses?
+3
Level 55
Sep 9, 2020
Baby Shark?
+5
Level 22
Oct 19, 2020
I think you should accept Bruno Mars for uptown funk, Charlie Puth for see you again, Anne Marie for rockabye and Rihanna for this is what you came for because they are the ones that actually sing the songs so a lot of people will know the songs because of them
+1
Level 35
Nov 14, 2020
i did all of them, i had a really dark extreme pop phase lol
+6
Level 58
Nov 26, 2020
Wouldn't baby shark count?
+1
Level 47
Jan 6, 2021
Baby Shark, as much as I hate it, should be on here.
+1
Level 58
May 1, 2021
as of may 2019, and its not a music video by a musical artist, its a children's nursery rhyme song
+1
Level 15
Mar 22, 2021
agreed. And there's like no rap songs on this. No wonder I did bad.
+1
Level 14
Apr 17, 2021
Where's Twenty one pilots with Stressed out, Ride and Heathens?!
+3
Level 74
Apr 23, 2021
Man, only 7/27. I recognised most of them when I saw the answers though.

I mostly only use YT for looking up old songs I've got in my head for whatever reason, but I do occasionally like to put my baseball cap on sideways and pretend I'm a youngster again...

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Level 39
May 14, 2021
This needs an update!
+1
Level 46
Dec 22, 2021
You really need to update this

Faded so now at 3.1 billion and I every single one of these have brown tremendously.

We need an update

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Level 44
Jan 17, 2022
I tried to type in Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” because of course I would…
+2
Level 62
Jun 17, 2022
same i thought it would be here
+2
Level 60
Jun 17, 2022
Please accept Bruno Mars for Uptown Funk, and Rihanna for This is What You Came For. In general, it would be nice if this quiz was more generous with allowing artists besides the one with first billing.
+1
Level 72
Jun 20, 2022
"First billing" is not how the music industry works. The artists agree who will release the song, often before they even start recording.

It's common to not even feature secondary artists on the record. Usually it's done if they contributed melody vocals, and only very, very occasionally if they didn't (usually only because they are very famous and even then often not). Music is almost always a collaborative process, from writing beats, composing tunes, writing lyrics, mixing, editing, singing, playing instruments, and more.

You could as easily complain that you know who played piano on Love the Way You Lie, or who co-wrote Despacito, but they weren't accepted. One artist is credited for the song. Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but it is.

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Level 67
Jun 28, 2022
This seems a little obtuse. Uptown Funk's success is due in large part to Bruno Mars singing it. Or do you think people go to Tom Cruise movies based on who the key grip is?
+2
Level 50
Jun 28, 2022
Shouldn’t baby shark be here?
+1
Level 68
Jun 28, 2022
Bottom 5% club :)
+1
Level 73
Jun 28, 2022
Right there with you, and proud to be so.
+1
Level 37
Jun 28, 2022
Agree
+2
Level 66
Jun 28, 2022
Isn’t Baby Shark a music video?
+1
Level 37
Jun 28, 2022
What's the best song on this list
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Level 44
Jun 28, 2022
I kept trying Nine Inch Nails and NIN for Closer.
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Level 75
Jun 28, 2022
Some of these songs were ubiquitous. Some of these songs don't really feel like they were bigger than songs that didn't make the list. It makes me wonder if click farms play a role or if there's a whole generation absorbing music on YouTube instead of MP3 or Spotify who define what the biggest hits are.
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Level 75
Jun 28, 2022
I was a DJ for years, and I enjoy learning about music--even the 1910s. I have to say that there isn't really much difference between pop music today and 60 years ago. You remember the good songs from the 60s and 70s... But do you remember Captain and Tenille? Do you remember Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer? Do you remember Alley-Oop by the Hollywood Argyles? The vast majority of popular music has always been unadulterated trash that is designed to be catchy, not artistic. Sometimes you get random artistic people with an original sound and get popular, like Stressed Out, or a very popular act who demands to be allowed to do their things and be artistic, like the Beatles. The only legitimate criticisms of new music, in my opinion: 1. Artists do not actually have to sound good live (e.g. auto-tuned Snoop). 2. Physical appearance is as important as the actual music (thanks MTV). 3. The industry is dominated by a few producers, so songs all have a samey sound (e.g. Maroon5... awful).
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Level 43
Jun 28, 2022
The only “Closer” belongs to Nine Inch Nails.
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Level 63
Jun 28, 2022
"Omg music today is so bad and cringey! My music taste is way better because I listen to (insert generic 80s rock band here)!"
+1
Level 69
Jul 1, 2022
For all their "fame" you'd think Beyonce and BTS would be mentioned once or twice.

Personally, I'd love to see King's X on here.

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Level 87
Jul 18, 2022
I tried both Beyonce and BTS, and was especially surprised that the latter did not appear here.
+1
Level 77
Jul 4, 2022
You can tell when Spotify started kicking in. Lots of these songs were early to mid 2010s.
+1
Level 25
Oct 10, 2022
can you please let people write bruno mars for uptown funk because in my eyes most people know it as his song and not mark ronsons
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Level 56
Oct 27, 2022
i would say baby shark is a music video
+1
Level 22
Nov 9, 2022
dawg its true
+1
Level 64
May 26, 2023
Never Gonna Give You Up isn't a music video?
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Level 58
Aug 4, 2023
its 1.4 Billion views.