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KPop Demon Hunters song Golden reaches a billion views on YouTube

the song golden by huntr/xNetflix/Sony Pictures Animation

Gonna be, gonna be, a billion!

The KPop Demon Hunters have smashed another huge milestone - reaching a billion views on YouTube.

The song Golden from the movie, has now been watched more than 1,000,000,000 times on the video platform, becoming the first song from the film to reach the lofty target.

Golden is performed by singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI - who voice Rumi, Mira and Zoey's singing voices in the fictional girl group Huntr/x from the movie.

In the seven months since its release the movie has won two Golden Globe awards for best animated film and best song, become the most viewed movie of all time on Netflix, and the movie's soundtrack has even gone platinum!

Whew, that really is how it's done, done DONE!

How many other videos have more than a billion views?

two children dancing in the baby shark song videoPinkfong/Youtube

Baby Shark doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, smashing records, doo, doo, doo ,doo ,doo doo!

According to YouTube hundreds of videos have made it to the billion views club on the platform.

The first to do so was the song Gangnam Style by South Korean singer PSY, which has now been viewed more than 5.8 billion times.

The most viewed video on YouTube is the Baby Shark song, which has more than 16 billion views!

That would be like if every single person living on earth listened to the song twice!

babies from cocomelon brushing their teethCocomelon/Youtube

Cocomelon's catchy songs appear in the billion views list quite a lot!

Here are some other songs that have over a billion views on YouTube:

  • The Wheels on the Bus - Cocomelon - 8.4 billion

  • Wiz Khalifa and Chalie Puth - See you again - 6.9 billion

  • Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk - 5.7 billion

  • Shakira - Waka Waka (This time for Africa) - 4.4 billion

  • Katy Perry - Roar - 4.2 billion

  • Taylor Swift - Shake it off - 3.6 billion

  • Frozen - Let It Go (sing-a-long) - 3.6 billion

  • Rihanna - Diamonds - 2.5 billion

  • BLACKPINK - (DDU-DU DDU-DU) - 2.3 billion

  • BTS - Dynamite - 2 billion