YouTube has a new most-watched video of all time.
The official clip for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again has overtaken Gangnam Style to become the most popular video on YouTube.
As of Tuesday, the official music video had been viewed more than 2,895,214,000 times – ahead of Gangnam Style's 2,894,387,000 YouTube views. Justin Bieber's Sorry (featuring dancing by New Zealand's own Parris Goebel) remains the third most-watched YouTube video of all time, with 2.63 billion views.
Gangnam Style was uploaded to YouTube almost five years to the day – on July 15, 2012.
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Bruno Mars' and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk is fourth, with just over 2.5 billion views. Interestingly, Luis Fonsi's Despacito – which has only been out for six months – is rocketing up the charts with 2.47 billion views to date.
See You Again was written for the Furious 7 soundtrack as a tribute to the late actor Paul Walker. Walker and a close friend died in 2013 when the Porsche they were in crashed and burst into flames.
The tragedy occurred while Furious 7 was still shooting. While production was originally suspended, the filmmakers – with permission from Walker's family – later used special effects in order to finish his character's scenes.
- The Age
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