The song, which featured on the Furious 7 soundtrack and was dedicated to the late Paul Walker, celebrated the milestone just six months after it was posted on the video-sharing website.
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Check out the most viewed YouTube music videos below. At 184 days, “See You Again” is the second-fastest video to hit 1 billion in YouTube history (after “Gangnam Style”), and the quickest of the past year. And they’re now part an exclusive club at YouTube called the “Billion View Club”, naturally.
People love the song so much, it has become the first rap song to garner more than 1 billion views on YouTube, reports Complex.
Puth took to his Twitter account to explain why the song hitting one billion views was such a big deal.
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“At the start of this past June, only two videos had reached that echelon”, writes YouTube’s Kevin Allocca. The platinum-selling single, featuring Charlie Puth, crossed the record-breaking marker this week.
