Most-Viewed YouTube Videos of All Time

About This Dataset

This chart ranks the most-viewed videos on YouTube of all time by total view count in billions, as of 2026. The list mixes viral children's content with globally successful music videos, reflecting the two genres that dominate repeat viewing on the platform.

✨ AI Insight

Pinkfong'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.

Source: YouTube / Wikipedia

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Baby Shark Dance - Pinkfong leads with 17 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 8 · median: 7.

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Gap in All Time: Baby Shark Dance - Pinkfong is 2.9× larger than Axel F - Crazy Frog.