There’s a new most-viewed Youtube video, pushing Gangnam Style off the top spot – Buzz.ie

For a long time, PSY's aggressively catchy hit Gangnam Style was the most-viewed YouTube clip on the platform, standing at 2.8 billion views.

Gangnam Style rose to the top back in 2012, beating out Justin Bieber's Baby which had been the ruling clip up until PSY's phenomenal success.

Now there's a new kid in town when it comes to ruling views. Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa's mega-hit See You Again has nabbed top place.

At the moment, there are just under 2.9 billion views on the track's music video, which features clips from the emotional Fast and Furious flick featuring the late Paul Walker.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa commented on the gigantic achievement in a press release:

"Im super excited and grateful to everyone who supported the song and video on YouTube, and happy to inspire and impact so many lives."

Meanwhile, Puth said:

"I remember when I signed up for YouTube in 2007 and had hopes of uploading a video and it reaching 10,000 views.Now a decade later, it feels incredible to be a part of the most-viewed video on YouTube."

However, Justin hasn't been bumped too far from the top of the heap since Baby's success the music video for his song Sorry is at Number 3 behind Gangnam Style. Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars is at Number 4.

Now, it's important to bear in mind that See You Again was released back in 2015. Gangnam Style was of course a 2012 hit, while Uptown Funk and Sorry were respectively 2014 and 2015 releases.

The fifth most viewed spot is currently held by Despacito, the Luis Fonsi track featuring Justin Bieber which was only released this year.

It's rising to the top incredibly quickly, raking in views at a much faster rate than YouTube's other contenders which hints that the bilingual hit will surpass the older songs much faster than we think.

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There's a new most-viewed Youtube video, pushing Gangnam Style off the top spot - Buzz.ie