Top 20: the most viewed videos in YouTube history

She marks it as the platform in which a greater number of users look for videos, be it a tutorial, music, motivational videos, learning or entertainment. With the arrival of the pandemic and global confinement its use has only grown in recent months.

But achieving success on YouTube is not an easy thing, since its catalog of millions of videos on different themes makes it a practically infinite showcasewhere only the best stand out.

Despite the high consumption of videos on the platform, there is a special place for the most viewed videos in the history of YouTube, a place where only the most viral content manages to stand out. Traditionally we find musical content among them and since the pandemic, they have quickly managed to position themselves among the most viewed.

Thus, Google’s video social network presents us The 20 most viewed videos in YouTube history, those greats who have achieved that title based on success over the years. (Data as of November 15, 2021)

1. Baby Shark Dance

Unseating “Despacito” has come Baby Shark Dance, the English version of the hyperpopular nursery rhyme that began in South Korea, and that has now managed to surpass all content to obtain leadership as the most viewed video in the history of YouTube, accumulating more than 9.717 million views.

2. Luis Fonsi. Slowly

Since its premiere in 2017 Despacito, Luis Fonsi’s song had remained the most successful video in YouTube history, but after so long reigning dropped to second place accumulating more than 7.636 million views.

3. Johnny Yes Papa The best Song for Children. LooLoo Kids

Children’s content never ceases to amaze due to the number of views it achieves on YouTube, and in fifth place in this ranking we find this song for little ones: Johny Johny, Yes Papa, an English lullaby that has so far managed to accumulate 5.923 million visits.

4. Ed Sheeran. shape of you

British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran launched in 2017 shape of you that in addition to reaching the number 1 position on the singles charts in 34 countries, so far it is placed as one of the most viewed videos in YouTube history, with 5.533 million views.

5.Wiz Khalifa. See you again ft. charlie puth

Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa released the song See You Again in 2015 as part of the soundtrack of the film Furious 7, as a tribute to Paul Walker, an actor who died in a car accident. This remix has managed to remain in the taste of viewers in fourth place among the videos with the most views on YouTube with 5.332 million views and counting.

6. Bath Song | CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs

Songs and children’s content in general have a wide presence among the most viewed videos on the platform, as we can see with this bathroom song in English that helps create bathroom habits in the little ones in a fun way. This song is located in the sixth position of the list with 4.652 million visits.

7. Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm

3D animation videos for children really maintain a strong position among the most viewed on YouTube, this time it is a song to learn colors in an interactive way presented by the Russian channel Miroshka Tv. Covering the seventh position this song has an estimated 4,528 million views on the platform.

8. Masha and the Bear. Recipe for disaster (Episode 17)

Russian folk tale which was brought to the screens with great success has also achieved a privileged place among the most viewed videos in the history of YouTube. In fifth place is its chapter 17 “Recipe for disaster” with an accumulated number of 4.469 million views.

9. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars. Uptown Funk

British producer Mark Ronson made Uptown Funk in collaboration with American singer Bruno Mars in 2015 and has managed to remain as one of the most viewed videos with more than 4,369 million views.

10. Phonics Song with Two Words

Finally, we have another children’s song, which shows the increase in the consumption of children’s content on this platform in the last year. It is a song to learn the alphabet where it uses two words as an example and shows animations alluding to them. Occupying the tenth position of the list, this video has a total of 4,308 views and counting.

From position 11 to 20 of this ranking, we can find a greater presence of music videos of well-known artists and groupslike Maroon 5 or Justin Bieber.

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