The fastest music video to reach 500 million views is often cited as Adele's "Hello," achieving it in about 34.1 days, though recent K-Pop hits like Rosé and Bruno Mars' "APT." have broken records for faster milestones like 100M and even 2B views, indicating K-Pop dominates speed records, but "Hello" remains a benchmark for that specific 500M mark in general music.
Fastest songs in history to surpass 100 million streams on Spotify: #1 The Fate of Ophelia — Taylor Swift (5 days) #2 Seven — Jungkook & Latto (6 days) #3 Fortnight — Taylor Swift & Post Malone (6.5 days) #4 Flowers — Miley Cyrus (almost 7 days) #5 APT.
All-Time Fastest Music Videos to One Billion Views
The Minecraft community has crushed one trillion views on YouTube. Celebrate this huge milestone with a look back at some of the biggest moments in Minecraft history.
The number one YouTube channel by subscriber count is MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), who surpassed Indian music network T-Series in early 2025 and now leads with over 450 million subscribers, known for massive stunts, giveaways, and philanthropy. T-Series remains a strong second, followed by children's content creators like Cocomelon, making MrBeast the top individual creator on the platform, according to data from late 2025 and early 2026.
“Gangnam Style” by South Korean musician PSY became the first YouTube video to reach 1 billion views. By the end of 2012, the song had topped music charts in more than 30 countries around the world. #song4theweekend #PSY #GangnamStyle #musichistory #music.
If you get a pop up saying you're in the top 0.005% of listeners for a specific artist or song on Spotify means you listened more than 99.9995% of all other listeners on Spotify, cementing yourself as a mega fan of whatever it was you were obsessively listening to.
Key Takeaways
YouTube Shorts earnings range from $20k to $200k per 100 million views, depending on the Shorts Fund distribution. Long-form content can earn between $100k and $500k for 100 million views through diverse ad types. YouTube creators receive 55% of ad revenue, as YouTube retains 45%.
The music video for LMFAO's song "Party Rock Anthem" stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy's "Gangnam Style" surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes.
The most streamed song of all-time on Spotify is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with 5,221,638,283 streams as of January 5, 2026. Other top tracks include Shape Of You, Starboy, Sweater Weather, As It Was, and many more.
As of early January 2026, The Weeknd is generally considered #1 on Spotify for monthly listeners, but Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify's history and often leads overall popularity, with Bruno Mars recently hitting a historic 150 million monthly listeners. The #1 spot can change daily, but The Weeknd currently leads in recent monthly listeners, while Bad Bunny remains a top contender, and Taylor Swift dominates overall historical streams.
Super listeners are the driving beat behind your success
On average: They're a real powerhouse: Across all artist sizes, super listeners make up just 2% of an artist's monthly listeners but drive over 18% of monthly streams. They stream like stans: One super listener streams as much as 20 programmed listeners.
Taylor Swift was the top global artist of 2024 on Spotify, as revealed in the streamer's yearly Wrapped rundown of the most popular recordings. She achieved more than 26.6 billion streams around the world, putting her ahead of The Weeknd at No. 2, Bad Bunny at No. 3, Drake at No.
The #1 richest YouTuber in the world is MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), consistently topping lists with an estimated net worth often cited over $500 million, potentially reaching $1 billion, driven by viral content, massive giveaways, and successful business ventures like Feastables and MrBeast Burger, making him the highest-earning creator globally.
1. MrBeast – 459 million subscribers.
The number one streamed song of all time, primarily on Spotify, is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd, having surpassed 5 billion streams and holding the top spot over other massive hits like Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" and The Weeknd's "Starboy".
100 Million YouTube Subscribers was first achieved by Pewdiepie, one of YouTube's most legendary creators, and then by T-Series, a media company based in India.
You can make money on YouTube through the following features: Advertising revenue: Earn revenue from Watch Page ads and Shorts Feed ads. Shopping: Your fans can browse and buy products from your store, or products you tag from other brands through the YouTube Shopping affiliate program.
The first "YouTuber" was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube's co-founders, who uploaded the platform's first video, "Me at the zoo," on April 23, 2005, making him the first person to post content on the site, which marked the beginning of user-generated video sharing.