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Hit K-pop song ‘Gangnam Style’ busts YouTube’s watch counter

Aug 20, 2019

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Psy performing hit song 'Gangnam Style'.

Psy performing hit song 'Gangnam Style'. <span class="media-attribution">Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/koreanet/8037753226/in/photolist-dfgA1b-dfgz2D-dfgyKf-dfgBis-dfgATz-dfgANz-dfgyYb-dfgB33-dfgAVf-dfgyie-dhKeUu-dhKamc-dhKavN-dh...

Megan Eaves

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Megan Eaves is a travel author, consultant and advocate for sustainable travel and dark skies. She formerly served as Lonely Planet's North and Central Asia Destination Editor. Her writing appears in The Independent, BBC, CNN, Culture Trip, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Travel Weekly, Horizon Guides and numerous others. She has written Lonely Planet guidebooks to China, South Korea and Tibet and edited dozens more, as well as DK guides to China, Shanghai and Beijing. Her other beats in…
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Psy performing hit song 'Gangnam Style'. <span class="media-attribution">Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/koreanet/8037753226/in/photolist-dfgA1b-dfgz2D-dfgyKf-dfgBis-dfgATz-dfgANz-dfgyYb-dfgB33-dfgAVf-dfgyie-dhKeUu-dhKamc-dhKavN-dh...

The hit Korean pop song ‘Gangnam Style’ has had so many views that it has exceeded YouTube’s hit counter and forced Google to upgrade its counter software coding. When Psy’s hit song reached 2,147,483,647 views, it far exceeded the original coding, which was only set to 2 billion views. After the upgrade, a single video can now potentially register up to 9 quintillion views, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Read more: wsj.com

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