{"id":3141,"date":"2025-09-05T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:05:07","slug":"justin-bieber-sorry-video-hits-1-billion-views-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3141\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber &#8216;Sorry&#8217; Video Hits 1 Billion Views on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/justin-bieber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a> is no stranger to making history on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/youtube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_youtube\" data-tag=\"youtube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, and now the pop superstar has scored his first music video to rack up 4 billion views on the platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Thursday (Sept. 4), YouTube announced that Bieber\u2019s \u201cSorry\u201d music video had surpassed 4 billion views. Ironically, Bieber himself is nowhere to be found in the 2015 clip, which features a series of dancers in bright-colored clothes performing choreography from dance star Parris Goebel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSorry\u201d is one of only 15 music videos to have crossed the 4 billion mark \u2014 led by Luis Fonsi\u2019s \u201cDespacito,\u201d featuring Daddy Yankee, with 8.8 billion views. While Bieber hit No. 1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> with the Latin music duo thanks to their \u201cDespacito\u201d remix, his version is not in the blockbuster music video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSorry,\u201d from Bieber\u2019s 2015 album Purpose, marked the singer\u2019s second-ever No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 (following \u201cWhat Do You Mean?\u201d reaching the summit in September 2015). Bieber co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, along with the song\u2019s co-producers Skrillex and Bloodpop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn 2010, Bieber set the record for the most-watched YouTube video ever, when his \u201cBaby\u201d video surpassed Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cBad Romance.\u201d He held the record until November 2012, when Psy\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d took the crown (and eventually became the first YouTube video to surpass 1 billion views).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBeyond \u201cSorry,\u201d Bieber has five other videos in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billion-views-club\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billion-views-club\" data-tag=\"billion-views-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billion Views Club<\/a>: 2010\u2019s \u201cBaby\u201d (3.4 billion views), 2015\u2019s \u201cWhat Do You Mean?\u201d (2.2 billion views), 2015\u2019s \u201cLove Yourself\u201d (1.7 billion views), 2010\u2019s \u201cNever Say Never\u201d featuring Jaden Smith (1.2 billion views) and 2012\u2019s \u201cBeauty and a Beat\u201d featuring Nicki Minaj (1.1 billion views).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlso on Thursday, Bieber surprise-announced a second 2025 album, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/justin-bieber-swag-2-album-reveal-release-1236057940\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swag II set to be released<\/a> at midnight tonight, following the July 11 release of Swag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRevisit the \u201cSorry\u201d dance video below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber is no stranger to making history on YouTube, and now the pop superstar has scored his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,156,157,3296,111,139,69,4139],"class_list":{"0":"post-3141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billion-views-club","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-music-news","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}