Gangnam Style has overtaken on most-watched video on YouTubeImage Source:echonest.com

Korean pop singer Psy released the crazy music video to Gangnam Style back in 2012. It became the first video on YouTube to reach one billion views, becoming the most watched video on the website.

However,  its overall view count has now been overtaken by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.

The 2015 music video to the song ‘See You Again’ from the Furious 7 soundtrack, has notched up 2,896,512,356 views (correct at the time of publishing), while ‘Gangnam Style’ has been viewed 2,894,799,372 time (also at the time of publishing).

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As Billboard points out, the view counts of both videos are equal to more than 21,000 years of streaming each. The massive amount of views of ‘Gangnam Style’ also forced the website to upgrade its storage capabilities in December 2014.

Watch both videos below.

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