Try to guess the most viewed video on Youtube

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The game is: Think of a video that you believe has had the most views on Youtube. Go to Youtube and see the actual number of views and post the video and the number of views here. The highest number “wins”.

Obviously this game is on the honor system. No doubt you could google “most watched video” or pull up the Youtube page and sort by views or something. If you do, you instantly lose 100 karma points and will be reincarnated as a banana slug.

I’ll go first.

Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass 2,546,161,824 views

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I’ll go with the song Alan Rickman requested to be played at his funeral:

Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk, ftg. Bruno Mars - 4,730,737,396 views

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Does it count if I happen to have heard that statistic a while ago (though it might be outdated now)? Because the video I just checked on is at 11,586,471,032.

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I thought it might be this one:

Not often you get to answer a thread AND Rickroll it. I guess it’s not technically a Rickroll though.

Unfortunately, it’s not the winner. ‘Only’ 1.3 billion views.

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I went in knowing that Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” single set a YouTube record for most views in its first 24 hours.

Apparently, it did not sustain that success, as it “only” has 1.36 billion views now.

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I remember hearing a while back… quite a while back now, that the video for Despacito was getting a lot of views, so that was my guess.

It’s currently just shy of 8 billion views, less than whatever video Chronos is thinking of.

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The problem with Rickroll is that a lot of folks made copies of the video, so victims wouldn’t recognize the link as being a “followed” one. Add all of them up, and it might be a contender.

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Sorry. This game is for amateurs only. You’ll have to join the professional circuit.

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That would take the “Most Unintended Views” award.

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Gangnam Style only has 4.58 Bn views.

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Heh. Intended views: 138. Unintended: 1.3 billion.

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My second guess was going to be Beyoncé’s “All the Single Ladies” but was shocked to find that it “only” had 885 million.

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I suspect there are multiple copies of that song on YouTube, however, and in aggregate they’d presumably rank higher. Not sure this counts, though it arguably might.

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Oops, I just basically said the same thing. I’m’a blame you, Chronos, for not replying to Sam_Stone’s post directly :slight_smile:

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I know the answer to this one, so I won’t play.

But I will throw out there that the very first YouTube video uploaded is surprisingly not even anywhere near the running only clocking in at 12 million views.

(I mean, it’s not that interesting of a video, so that explains the lack of views, but I would have expected it would be higher than it is after 17 years or so of existence.)