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This list of most viewed YouTube videos contains the top 75 videos with the most views of all time, as derived from YouTube charts. Videos that YouTube suspects have had their view counts manipulated are not included in this list. View counts are based on the YouTube website; many of the videos are music videos that play through YouTube's partner site, Vevo, and YouTube view counts will lag those of Vevo by a few days. Of the 75 videos in this list, 72 are music videos, with 50 of them being Vevo videos.
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These videos include the "Billion View Club", a group of videos whose view counts have exceeded one billion (109) views each. Prior to June 28, 2015, only two videos, "Gangnam Style" and "Baby", had reached this milestone, but less than 3½ months later, on October 7, 2015, ten videos had done so.
As of March 2017, a total of 51 videos have exceeded one billion views, 5 of which have exceeded two billion views. The five fastest videos to reach one billion views are "Hello", in 87 days, "Sorry" (137 days), "Gangnam Style" (159 days), "Closer (Lyric video)" (165 days), and "This Is What You Came For" (166 days).
As of March 2017, Justin Bieber is the only artist to have four videos exceeding one billion views, while Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris each have three, with two of Swift's videos being in the top 10. Katy Perry, Fifth Harmony, Psy, Adele, and Ellie Goulding each have two videos that exceed one billion views.
All-time
The following table lists the top 75 most viewed videos on YouTube, with each total rounded to the nearest million views, as well as the creator and date of publication to YouTube.
By year of release
The following table lists the current top 5 most viewed YouTube videos uploaded in each year, with each total rounded to the nearest million views, as well as the uploader and date of publication to YouTube.
Historical most viewed videos
The following table lists the last 11 videos to become YouTube's most viewed video, from October 2005 to the present.
*The approximate number of views each video had when it became YouTube's most viewed video.