A lot has happened this year, but if Internet analytics are any indication, none was as important as 14-year-old Rebecca Black’s hilariously terrible song, “Friday.” Not only was “Rebecca Black” the “fastest rising” Google search term globally in 2011, but her music video for “Friday” was, not surprisingly, watched more times this year than any other video on YouTube.
According to the counter on the official “Friday” video, the clip has only received 12.5 million views. We say “only” because the video has actually received more than 10 times that amount. The discrepancy is because Black took down the video from YouTube in June due to a copyright claim — by Black. (Weird.) At that point, the official video had 167 million views. The 12.5 million count is simply the number of views the video has received since it was put back online on September 16, giving it a total view count of around 180 million — more than 100 million views over the next-highest contender. And that doesn’t count the number of views all the reposted videos have received.
Other top 10 videos include a “talking dog,” Lonely Planet’s “Jack Sparrow” rap, two babies having an unintelligible conversation with each other, Nyan Cat, Karmin’s cover of Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now,” an SNL skit, 10-year-old Maria Aragon’s cover of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” a Star Wars-themed Volkswagen commercial and, of course, some cute cats.
Unlike all of the other top 10 YouTube videos of 2011, “Friday” is the only one that has an overwhelming majority of “dislikes” over “likes” — only about 27 percent of viewers actually like “Friday,” which still seems a bit too high. But we’ll let you judge that for yourself:
I guess I am guilty for one of the 180 mil views… I checked it out to see how bad it was… I was not disappointed!!.. Lol
This is what America has become.
This is what America has become.
You mean which is good*
If you actually liked this video you are hella lame
Omg 50 Tyson was better
I liked how this girl made this video, but most of the people are just making fun of this,which isn’t good.
I guess I am guilty for one of the 180 mil views… I checked it out to see how bad it was… I was not disappointed!!.. Lol
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore
180,000,000 + views? WTF!?!?!?!?
what kind of sorcery is this?!
People should kill themselves….
This is worse than Robin Sparkles.
o0o WHORE.
ugh