Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again ‘became the second fastest video to reach one billion views and Adele’s Hello” took the world by storm, becoming the fastest to 100million ever and scoring a spot in the top 10 in less than six weeks.
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The most watched non-music video (sort of) posted this year is Silento – Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) by Tianne King, which has had almost 116 million views since it was posted in April.
What’s more newsworthy than the overall messages of the ads, however, is the way they were viewed. Justin Bieber Carpool Karaoke7.
Yesterday (December 8), the video-sharing site officially unveiled two playlists that collectively serve as a set of pop culture CliffsNotes for 2015: The Top 10 trending clips of the year and the Top 10 trending music videos of the year. Crazy Plastic Ball PRANK!!
The fifth spot has garnered 54 million views and goes to the first clip from a major mainstream late night TV show, in this case The Tonight Show’s Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon.
And YouTube favourites The Slo Mo Guys took seventh place with their video showing a six-foot man inside a six-foot water balloon.
Twitter recently released its report on most mentions and trends of 2015. The channels behind the top ten videos have a collective 40 million subscribers.
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This year, Youtube introduces the top songs list which looks at top tracks based on views of official and fan-uploaded videos in 2015.
