Most-Viewed YouTube Videos of All Time
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Most-Viewed YouTube Videos of All TimePinkfong's Baby Shark Dance is in a league of its own with about 17.06 billion views, nearly double the second-place videos and the only clip to pass 10 billion. Children's content dominates the upper reaches: Cocomelon, LooLoo Kids and ChuChu TV all place nursery-rhyme videos in the top seven, reflecting how young viewers replay the same clips endlessly. Music videos remain a major force, with Luis Fonsi's Despacito (9.06B), Wiz Khalifa's See You Again (7.01B) and Ed Sheeran's Shape of You (6.74B) all ranking high. Psy's Gangnam Style, the video that first reached one billion views back in 2012, now sits ninth at 6.04 billion, a reminder of how far the platform's records have climbed since.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- YouTube / Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Views (Billions)
- Last updated
- 11 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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