As news of the phenomenon spread, many Koreans wondered if the reports were accurate or overblown. The immense popularity of "Gangnam Style" caught Koreans off guard. The popularity of the song is rapidly spreading from the U.S. The distinctive "horse dance" is infectious.
The song broke out on YouTube and has jumped to No. Did people really watch Jennifer Lopez’ “On the Floor” video over 600,000,000 times? According to the YouTube analytics, they have.Psy's jumpy dance hit "Gangnam Style" has taken the world by storm, leaving Koreans shocked and surprised. They are responsible for seven of the 11 “Most Liked” videos on YouTube’s “All Time” list, and they hold all six of the top spots in YouTube’s “Most Viewed All Time” category. The chief culprit involved in this conspiracy would then seem to be Vevo, the omnipresent online consortium that represents music from three of the biggest record labels around: Sony, Universal, and EMI. Though Clifton doesn’t think it’s as sinister and Machiavellian as record labels paying to keep PSY’s video off the list, he explains that record labels are likely paying to promote their artists up the list and YouTube is playing along. “The list keeps changing, but no matter which videos appear and disappear, Psy’s (sic) video doesn’t take the throne.”Ĭlifton has a video posted on the WhatHappenedToGangnamStyle page where he details his observations of what exactly YouTube is up to. Actually, I checked and it doesn’t, but Clifton is undeterred. “Look up ‘Evolution of Dance’… it has way more likes than anything on that list,” he said during a Skype call with NMR. The Internet savvy have cobbled up a theory on just what happened to “Gangnam Style.” According to Michael Clifton, who operates under the YouTube handle, Agent of Doubt, the answer is payola. has actually begun a petition on their site requesting the video be restored to its rightful place - or barring that, at the very least, an explanation of what is going on. But seven days later, on September 20th, PSY’s video was scrubbed from the charts and is still missing. On September 13th, “Gangnam Style” captured the title of “Most Liked” video on YouTube, even earning a Guinness World Record for the achievement. Normally, you could chalk this up to some sort of technical glitch and move on with your life, but if you check out the screen grab captured by, you see that YouTube used to account for PSY. LMFAO leads the list of “Most Liked” videos with a clearly impressive, but still much smaller, 1,581,630 likes. PSY isn’t at the top of any of these lists, much less in them whatsoever, despite having 275,200,681 views and 2,760,023 likes. There, you can scroll through the lists of the “ Most Viewed,” “Top Favorited,” “Most Discussed,” and of course, “Most Liked” videos on YouTube.
charts is the hub for high-ranking videos of all sorts.
However, a visit to YouTube’s collective of “Most Liked” videos assures you that LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” holds the top spot and what’s more: PSY isn’t even in the conversation - literally. But you know what? I’m not alone in thinking it.PSY’s video “ Gangnam Style,” which has mesmerized the Internet (not to mention NMR’s articles of late) is clearly the “Most Liked” YouTube video of all time if you believe the numbers on PSY’s page. At least, that’s what the conspiracy theorist side of me thinks. Something evil is happening over at YouTube.
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