On an otherwise regular Monday in February 2005 , video file sharing website YouTube was found . At the time , founders Chad Hurley , Steve Chen , and Jawed Karim just wanted to find an wanton fashion to partake in videos between them and their friends , but YouTube has turned into arguably the most popular picture sharing site on the net . In award of its 10th birthday ( yes , YouTube waslaunchedon Valentine ’s Day ! ) , here are the most democratic YouTube videos turn each yr since .
1. “Touch of Gold” by Nike // 2005
Some of YouTube ’s original hits have been taken down and re - uploaded over time , making it hard to exactly envision which ones from which year are the most democratic . But this video — primitively uploaded in 2005 — is a good bet : The Nike commercial message , centered on pop soccer star Ronaldinho , was the very first YouTube video recording to give onemillion views .
2. “Evolution of Dance” by Judson Laipply // 2006
A repeated favourite on the viral video circuit , stand up comic Judson Laipply ’s “ Evolution of Dance ” first rack up the picture sharing situation in 2006 , where it promptly became the site ’s most popular video . Racking up over 70 million views in just eight months , it was a long - clock time competitor for top hotdog , and even though it no longer look on even the top thirty list , it ’s a retentive - prison term favorite . Laipply bring out a follow - up in 2009 , and he anticipate a third video is still in the fashioning .
3. “Charlie bit my finger—again!” by Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr // 2007
4. “An Experiment” // 2008
If alien came to Earth and wanted to understand viral videos , this is the magazine to show them . A 24 second television of what appear to be the Coke and Mentos experimentation got over 274 million survey and is in the top 150 television of all time . For comparison , Katy Perry ( who we ’ll be seeing a lot more of in a bit ) released " Hot and Cold " in 2008 , which has manage a lame 222 million views .
5. “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga // 2009
This video — Gaga ’s in high spirits entry into the annals of YouTube popularity — was uploaded in November 2009 , finally pulling in over 614 million viewers ( it ’s currently seventeenth overall ) . It is also the only video on the site ’s 30 most popular videos that is set at a Russian bathhouse and involves its agonist kill someone , so points to Gaga for always going her own way .
6. “Baby” by Justin Bieber // 2010
Canadian pop aesthesis Justin Bieber was already well on his way to meteoric superstardom by the time the music video for “ Baby ” hit the Internet on February 19 , 2010 . With his debut album “ My World 2.0 ” just a month aside from dismission , the so - called “ Beliebers ” were already starting to assemble — they just postulate something to really get behind . They base it in the bowling alley - set music telecasting , a sweet ode to untried adolescent love , with extra hair - tossing to spare . The video stayed number one on the site for over two years , until yet another pop video—“Gangnam Style”—usurped it , eventually earning nearly double its view .
7. “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO // 2011
The clubhouse banger earworm of the decade , truss up with a surprisingly inventive music video . “ Party Rock Anthem ” the song may be about the effective time , but “ Party Rock Anthem ” the music video somewhat oddly deplumate from the horror film28 day Laterfor its intake . Party until you … cash in one’s chips ? Then keep party ? That ’s actually the thrust of the entire video , as LMFAO members Redfoo and Sky Blu political party so hard that they in reality decrease into a coma , only to wake up to a world that can only “ make ” to their own hit single all day , every day . The television was released on March 8 , 2011 , and though it has yet to burst a billion views ( it hovers just under the 819 million scrape ) , it ’s still the act four most - viewed video on the site .
8. “Gangnam Style” by Psy // 2012
Uploaded in the heart of an otherwise average summer , South Korean soda water star Psy ’s 2012 music video for his smash hit “ Gangnam Style ” did n’t set out to change the YouTube landscape painting , but that ’s on the button what the dance - heavy telecasting ended up doing . Not only did “ Gangnam Style ” become the most popular YouTube television of 2012 , it became the most democratic YouTube video of all - prison term . By November 2012 , “ Gangnam Style ” secured the top spot by ousting the previous number one telecasting ( Justin Bieber ’s “ Baby ” ) . By December , it became the first YouTube video to cross the billion - view mark . Two eld later on , in December of 2014 , the video “ broke ” YouTube ’s survey counter , which had antecedently used a 32 - bit whole number to measure video views . Once “ Gangnam Style ” crossed 2,147,483,647 views , YouTube was forced to vary their view counter to use a 64 - bit whole number to keep track of its picture views .
9. “Roar” by Katy Perry // 2013
YouTube may not be a video - sharing site that exists only to provide the masses with hot , unused medicine video , but it might as well be . After all , nine of the top ten viewed videos of all time are music vids for various pop songs ( with Perry and Psy lead the face pack with two each ) . The most - viewed video of 2013 , Perry ’s “ Roar ” is vacillate around the 800 million view mark . The video ’s popularity was aided by all sorts of coquette before it even appeared on the land site in September of 2013 . Two weeks before discharge , a 21 - second mystifier was available online . The 24-hour interval before , Nokia pushed out a two - minute “ behind the scenes ” take care at the hobo camp - themed video . Sound like a lot of work ? Well , it panned out—“Roar ” is now the biggest video to come up out of 2013 and is just ahead of Psy ’s " Gentleman . "
10. “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry, featuring Juicy J // 2014
It ’s a two - fer for Perry , who not only has the most popular YouTube video from 2013 , but also the most democratic YouTube picture of 2014 . First upload in February of 2014 , the “ Dark Horse ” picture is also third most democratic TV overall , egest “ Party Rock Anthem ” yesterday , and trailing “ Baby ” by 300 million .
