The high-octane video for South Korean popstar PSY's song "Gangnam Style" has broken YouTube's record for the "most liked" video ever on the site.
Racking up a whopping 2,234,180 likes, Guinness World Records reports that the video has overshadowed former most liked video, LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem", which has 1,574,963 likes, as well as Justin Bieber's "Baby" which has 1,327,147 likes and Adele's "Rolling In The Deep", with its 1,245,641 likes.
On the site since July 15 this year, the PSY - real name Park Jae-Sang - video has been viewed 232,237,840 times. Click below the watch the insanely popular video clip.
Of the new record, Guinness World Records Community Manager, Dan Barrett has said: "Having been the 'have you seen this?!' video of the last two months across the web, it's great to be able to award a record for this tremendously popular video."
He added: "In years past it was unthinkable that something would be viewed a hundred million times, and now 'Gangnam Style' has achieved more than twice this figure in just three months on YouTube. PSY – your certificate is waiting here at our office, come pick it up any time!"
One thing. ultimate GUITAR. Notice the keyword GUITAR. This is not ultimate shitty pop music made for money which has stupid repetitive lyrics which don't effect the users of this site, who primarily speak English. By all means have articles about the top 20 or 40 played songs on YouTube and by all means open a new site titled something along the lines of "Ultimate pop" or something but this has nothing to do with your audience, so why waste your time, effort and money making it? On a lighter note keep up the good work Ultimate Guitar, I always check your music headlines every day and they keep me well informed. Thank you.
I don't get all the hype around this.
1) It's not that funny. I can't pinpoint any moment of that video that I could say is even slightly funny.
2) The dance isn't funny. It's like it's trying to be funny and just come off as lame.
3) It's in a foreign language? Big whoop, is it really that shocking that other country's sing in their native language?
4) It's not that great of a song. Sure, it's okay as far as pop songs go but it's really nothing special either.
5) It's not that 'random'. It's one of the more tame things I have seen come from that side of the world actually. I have seen way more music videos that have just left me dazed and confused to what I had watched.
6) It's slightly perverted but again, one of the more tame things I have seen from that side of the world.
To me, it's just one of those things that have become popular for no apparent reason and everybody is just on the bandwagon.
The only thing I give it thumbs up for is that most of the girls in the video are hot but it's a music video, they are supposed to be.
The video was made to rip on rich people. Gangnam is a area of Korea which is like the Beverly Hills of California. So, hey, I'd love a video ripping on them folks from the hills and thus I love the video. It ain't funny but its made a point.
Add another 400 000 and that's where it's near now.