The video for Gangnam vogue has become the primary YouTube video to be watched quite 2 billion times.

The hit by the Asian nationn rapper Psy from July 2012 sparked a worldwide dance craze.

Only Justin Bieber's video for the track Baby, with one billion YouTube hits, comes anyplace close to Gangnam Style's world charm on the location.

Psy's horse-dance has diode to various tributes and parodies by everybody from Ban Ki Moon to prisoners in an exceedingly Philippine jail.

His follow up song Gentleman additionally did well on YouTube, to this point finding out virtually 700 million views.

Gentlemen additionally holds the record for the foremost views in an exceedingly day with thirty eight million.

Gangnam facts

Psy was born within the neighbourhood of Gangnam in Seoul, South Korea
The album containing Gangnam vogue is on Psy's sixth studio album
The song was much loved round the world
After Justin Beiber a video known as Charlie bit my finger - again! may be a distant third with 711 million views on YouTube.

In total Psy has 3 of the highest fifteen videos on the location.

'The difficulties'

The singer spent abundant of last year on a world tour taking within the United States of America , Europe and ending with a tour of Asia.

The 36-year-old K-Pop sensation has within the past represented the difficulties of trying to follow-up Gangnam vogue.

"The drawback is my music video is additional well-liked than i'm," he said. "So I've have to be compelled to overcome my music video initial."

Psy
Psy's been creating music for thirteen years
Last year he tweeted a photograph of himself together with his face lined business it, "pain of creation", and same the high status has taken a toll.

In 2012 Psy was given one amongst South Korea's highest cultural honours the Okgwan Order Of Cultural advantage, he additionally performed for the new president of Asian nation, Park Geun-Hye at her inauguration ceremony.

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