FACT: PSY's "Gangnam Style" Will Be The First Video With A Billion Views
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PSY’s “Gangnam Style” is a viral smash, the likes of which has never been seen before. It’s been viewed hunderds of millions of times (north of 550 million at press time). It’s already got the Guiness World record for being the most liked video of all time. But it doesn’t look like that’s the only record the video is going to smash.
The good nerds over at ChannelMeter have access to reams of proprietary Youtube data on popular channels and videos. On Friday, the company posted a piece to their industry analysis blog Inside ChannelMeter that stated, according to their projections,”Gangnam Style” would be the first video to break the billion view barrier.
That the clip is already on its way to being the most watched video on Youtube is already a foregone conclusion; ChannelMeter bets that “Gangnam Style” will pass Justin Bieber’s “Baby” on or before November 21st. Just in time for Thanksgiving!
Check out this handy chart to the right, courtesy of the ChannelMeter people. According to their projections, “Gangnam Style” will make it to a billion views before the year’s end. Provided his views hold out, of course.
The ChannelMeter people aren’t the only ones trying to figure out the if and when of “Gangnam Style’s” billion views. Forbes points users at Stack Exchange trying to best model the curve for the video’s projected views. The best explanation from that thread comes from user gui11aume who predicts “Gangnam Style” will earn a billion views by March of 2013.
Tl;dr “Gangnam Style” has been seen a bunch of times and is going to be seen a bunch more times.
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