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05-28-2014, 12:43 AM
'Gangnam Style' Gallops Toward 2 Billion YouTube Views
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Let those feelings of confusion, anger and pride wash over you for the next day or so, which at the current rate of viewership is about as long as it will take the video to reach the two-billion milestone. At the time of this writing, "Gangnam Style" had almost 1,997,353,000 views
See also: How 'Gangnam Style' Got to a Billion Views (http://mashable.com/2012/12/20/gangnam-style-billion-views/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The video sensation was uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2012. It reached the one billion mark (http://mashable.com/2012/12/21/gangnam-style-billion-views-2/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in December of that year. The song spent 31 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 list (http://www.billboard.com/artist/277142/psy/chart), peaking at the number 2 spot. It spurred thousands of parodies and generated millions in advertising deals Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/gangnam-style-2-billion-youtube-views/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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We're about to live in a world where Psy's (http://mashable.com/category/psy/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) 2012 mega-hit "Gangnam Style (http://mashable.com/category/gangnam-style/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)" has been watched 2 billion times — or almost six times the population of the United States
Let those feelings of confusion, anger and pride wash over you for the next day or so, which at the current rate of viewership is about as long as it will take the video to reach the two-billion milestone. At the time of this writing, "Gangnam Style" had almost 1,997,353,000 views
See also: How 'Gangnam Style' Got to a Billion Views (http://mashable.com/2012/12/20/gangnam-style-billion-views/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The video sensation was uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2012. It reached the one billion mark (http://mashable.com/2012/12/21/gangnam-style-billion-views-2/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in December of that year. The song spent 31 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 list (http://www.billboard.com/artist/277142/psy/chart), peaking at the number 2 spot. It spurred thousands of parodies and generated millions in advertising deals Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/gangnam-style-2-billion-youtube-views/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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