Gangam style hits 1 billion views, we arent safe from 2012 yet
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[QUOTE]It's spawned a new dance style, parodies, copies and a fascination with things Korean – and on Friday afternoon Gangnam Style, the video by the South Korean singer Psy became the first ever to break a billion views on YouTube.
The song – an ironic comment on the rich socialites living in the Gangnam area in central Seoul, the south Korean capital – also had its title added to the Collins Dictionary as one of the phrases of the year (along with omnishambles and fiscal cliff).
The K-pop (Korean pop) song and particularly its video – with its "horseriding" dance – has made 34-year-old Psy an international star who has since performed with Madonna, broken a Guinness World record for the most liked video in YouTube history, and inspired flashmobs: one is scheduled for new year's eve at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin where hundreds of thousands could turn up.
Described by Reuters as "chubby", the South Korean singer had released five studio albums, but had never had a hit in the west until Gangnam style was released on 15 July.
Progress was slow until on 28 July, the video was shared on the social site Reddit – and remarked on by Robbie Williams on his personal blog. At that point it took off, and in late November passed Justin Bieber's Baby as the most-watched video of all time. Ranked second, Baby has a mere 813m views.[/QUOTE]
As much as its overplayed, in my opinion the song is good.
PSY also makes some pretty good music that isn't Gangam style.
Source: [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/21/gangnam-style-1bn-youtube-psy"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/21/gangnam-style-1bn-youtube-psy[/URL]
Is it the first video to beat the 1 billion mark?
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Overplayed or not, it's pretty cool to see something break 1 billion.
shit i got beaten, congrats to him though 1 billion is really impressive
Why not Kony 2012 :(
[QUOTE=smurfy;38922428]Why not Kony 2012 :([/QUOTE]
Kony for president
Thought it was funny when it first came out, now I'm so bored of hearing it
Good for him! I really like the song, although I happen to like most things I hear with a decent enough tune, so that's something of an understatement for the first song to make this record. Surprising that it managed over 100,000 views in one day, or so I heard someone say it needed to get 1 billion on doomsday.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;38922361]Is it the first video to beat the 1 billion mark?[/QUOTE]
[quote]It's spawned a new dance style, parodies, copies and a fascination with things Korean – and on Friday afternoon Gangnam Style, [B]the video[/B] by the South Korean singer Psy [B]became the first ever to break a billion views[/B] on YouTube.
[/quote]
It's in the first line, surely :v:
Could've been something worse. Congrats to him.
I like how there's a small gif next to the view counter [img]http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif[/img]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0[/url]
it's really not that great but whatever it could have been "baby"
[QUOTE=matt.ant;38922554]I like how there's a small gif next to the view counter [IMG]http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif[/IMG]
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0[/URL][/QUOTE]
looking at inspect element, google just reused the YouTube logo gangman style but cropped out YouTube
[IMG]http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/logo_dancing_psy-vflsJl9hC.gif[/IMG]
this is literally the only thing in there with him dancing
[QUOTE=Kahgarak;38922491][img]http://www.allkpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121129_psy_gangnamstyle.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Maybe Nostradamus was just saying Gangam style would reach a billion views on the day the world is allegedly supposed to end, because that's what everyone's been saying :v:
Pretty impressive for a video released just 6 months ago.
I'm fucking sick of hearing it now but I have to admit it is still a cool song
Better this than Justin Bieber
This happening on this particular day will make it even more historic.
the video is 4:13 long.
So watching that a billion times, isn't that like a combined total of 195 thousand years?
or did I make a mistake in my math?
Where where you when gangnam style hit 1 Billion?
[QUOTE=Liem;38922718]the video is 4:13 long.
So watching that a billion times, isn't that like a combined total of 195 thousand years?
or did I make a mistake in my math?[/QUOTE]
My calculations say 8022 years.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;38922754]My calculations say 8022 years.[/QUOTE]
(((4 * 60) + 13) * 1 000 000 000) / (3600 * 24 * 365,25) = 8 017,08622
This is getting more interesting...
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;38922754]My calculations say 8022 years.[/QUOTE]
Without taking leap years into account, yes.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;38922754]My calculations say 8022 years.[/QUOTE]
Mine says 8020.32516307197
I don't like the music
I don't speak Korean
I don't like the way it's played everywhere
I don't like the stupid parodies
grumble grumble grumble
BAH HUMBUG!
It's a pretty good song.
I don't listen to the radio though so maybe I just haven't heard it enough to get tired of it.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;38922849]It's a pretty good song.
I don't listen to the radio though so maybe I just haven't heard it enough to get tired of it.[/QUOTE]
every commerical radio station in Australia just has to play it because it's essential, and they use it on ads and such with television like this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyv6CgPp8k[/media]
/shivers
I don't like this song, it has absolutely zero appeal to me. But good for him for reaching a billion views within six months.
[QUOTE=tyanet;38922603]Maybe Nostradamus was just saying Gangam style would reach a billion views on the day the world is allegedly supposed to end, because that's what everyone's been saying :v:[/QUOTE]
or maybe nostradamus didn't say that because there's no evidence of that quote existing
