{"id":702921,"date":"2026-07-21T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:43:08","slug":"psys-gangnam-style-hits-six-billion-views-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702921\/","title":{"rendered":"PSY&#8217;s Gangnam Style hits six billion views on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PSY&#8217;s smash hit Gangnam Style is the first K-pop video to reach six billion views on YouTube.<br \/>Almost exactly 14 years after it was posted on the platform, the humorous, dance-heavy visual has surpassed the milestone, becoming the first music video in the genre to garner those numbers to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PSY is widely recognised as having set the stage for modern K-pop to cross over into the global mainstream in recent years, being followed by acts such as BTS, Blackpink, Stray Kids, Seventeen, Twice and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Directed by Cho Soo-Hyun, the video finds the South Korean star causing chaos with his signature Gangnam Style choreography. Reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012, Gangnam Style became the first upload to ever reach a billion views on YouTube, making it an original member of the Billion Views Club that has since been joined by Justin Bieber&#8217;s Baby, Taylor Swift&#8217;s Blank Space and Ed Sheeran&#8217;s Shape of You, among other clips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several other K-pop artists have also entered the club in recent years, including BTS with hits Dynamite and Butter, and Blackpink with Pink Venom and How You Like That.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PSY remains a big fish in the South Korean entertainment industry, running his own record label, P Nation, and hosting his annual high-energy Summer Swag concert series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PSY&#8217;s smash hit Gangnam Style is the first K-pop video to reach six billion views on YouTube.Almost exactly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,233294,128,56,54,55,132],"class_list":["post-702921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-gangnam-style","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}