The top 10 most viewed YouTube videos consists of some pop songs and nursery rhymes.
What is now the largest video platform on the Internet started around 17 years ago. The first ever video on YouTube was unsurprisingly uploaded by one of the company’s founders, Jawed Karim.
However, the video is not very eventful. It’s titled me at the zoo
and shows Jawed Karim in an 18-second clip, how he talks about the fact that elephants have really, really long trunks. This is really cool:
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Despite the not very exciting content, the video has more than 200 million views to date. The video was already on the platform before YouTube was officially published. The first public beta started about a month after Karim uploaded his video.
Meanwhile, there is also rather curious content on the platform, such as this channel dedicated to hikes in the game Skyrim:
Relaxation with Skyrim:
Youtube channel dedicated solely to in-game hikes
A brilliant start for the platform
Besides Jawed Karim, YouTube had two other co-founders: Chad Hurley and Steve Chan. All three previously worked for the payment service PayPal, like In Game reported. Just one year after it was founded in 2006, the video platform was able to show impressive figures.
Video enthusiasts uploaded around 65,000 videos a day and around 100 million videos were viewed that year. In view of the numbers, Google came up with it relatively quickly. The company bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in a deal negotiated in just 72 hours.
Since Jawed Karim’s video, there have been much more professional and exciting videos on YouTube. We show you the 10 most successful videos of the platform ever:
These are the 10 most watched videos on YouTube
1. Baby Shark Dance
The video with the absolute most views on the platform is a children’s song called Baby Shark Dance
. Here kids can sing along and dance to a simple tune. So could the channel Pinkfong Baby Shark – Kids’ Songs & Stories
have already collected more than 10.5 billion clicks with the video:
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2. Luis Fonsi – Despacito
The summer hit from 2017 is in second place with 7.8 billion hits. If you’ve already forgotten Despacito by Luis Fonsi, you can catch him again with the corresponding YouTube video:
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3. Johny Johny Yes Papa
Number Three is another children’s song that tells the story of little Johny who would like to eat sugar. Dad doesn’t like it at all. This story has been clicked over 6.3 billion times so far. You can find the video here:
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4. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
Fourth place is again occupied by a pop song from 2017. It almost seems like this has been a particularly good year for music on YouTube. Here we find Ed Sheeran with Shape of You
and more than 5.6 billion clicks:
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5. Wiz Khalifa – See You Again
It gets emotional in fifth place. This is where Wiz Khalifa got involved See You Again
placed. The song bids farewell to Paul Walker, who died in a tragic car accident. He previously played the main character of the Fast & Furious series. The song has been clicked more than 5.4 billion times:
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6. Bath Song
The sixth place is again reserved for the children. Of the Bath Song
is the Baby Shark Dance
very similar from number one, only he explains how you get clean in the bathtub. The song was able to collect more than 5.2 billion clicks:
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7. Phonics Song with Two Words
Of the Phonics Song with Two Words
designed to help children learn the alphabet. The special thing about it: Each letter is given two sample words and teaches the pronunciation of the respective letters in English. The tutorial video has more than 4.5 billion views:
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8. Learn colors with colored eggs
Also on the eight we find an educational video for children, but this time not from the English-speaking world, but from Russian. The Miroschka TV video teaches children the colors using eggs. It was able to collect more than 4.5 billion clicks:
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9. Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mark
The oldest pop video in the YouTube top 10 dates back to 2014 and is Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars. The hit is just behind the Russian video on learning colors with just over 4.5 billion clicks.
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10. Masha and the Bear
The tenth place is taken by a Russian children’s series entitled Masha and the bear
. As the title suggests, it’s about a little girl named Masha who lives with a bear. The two experience colorful adventures. The video has received more than 4.4 billion views:
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