Luis Fonsi’s music video for “Despacito”
featuring Daddy Yankee has broken the record for the most viewed video of all
time on YouTube, a record that was previously held by Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again”
featuring Charlie Puth after overtaking five-year record holder “Gangnam Style”
by Psy.
On Friday, August 4, the official music video for
“Despacito” hit 2,993,786,682 views and surpassed “See You Again” (which was at
2,993,651,270) to become the most viewed video of all time. The video is also
on track to soon become the first video of all time to surpass 3 billion views
on YouTube.
The song received 874,732 views in Kenya, the sixth highest
in Africa, and the highest in East and Central Africa region. In
Africa, Morocco took the first position with 12,188,501 views, followed by
Egypt at 10,420,747, Tunisia 7,485,117, Algeria 7,471,457, Mauritius 185,744
and South Africa 1,728,104. In Tanzania, views stood at 213,961, while Nigeria
had 155,079. Uganda had 55,880 views, Rwanda 52,302, Somalia 54,290, Burundi 14,678
and 4,298 views in South Sudan.
It took just 203 days for the official music video for
“Despacito” to become the most viewed video in YouTube history (these numbers
do not include the also popular video
featuring Justin Bieber, which has 464m views).
It is the most liked video in YouTube history.
It reached the 2 billion and 2.5 billion views milestone
faster than any video in YouTube history.
It is the most viewed music video of 2017 in over 40
countries.
Daily views have averaged over 14.5 million, reaching as
high as 25 million views in a single day.
It has been viewed over 1 million times in over 99
countries, racking up massive views in countries as diverse as as Mexico (376
million), Brazil (213 million), United States (183 million), Italy (142
million), France (80 million), Indonesia (36 million), United Kingdom (36
million), India (32 million), Israel (17 million) and Egypt (8.8 million).
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