--- title: YouTube Music Mashup Video for 9th Birthday description: YouTube releases a mashup video for its ninth birthday canonical: https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-29T07:02:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:15:01.741Z og:title: WATCH: YouTube's Newest Music Mashup Video og:description: The website started going live in May. og:url: https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: YouTube's Newest Music Mashup Video twitter:description: The website started going live in May. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # WATCH: YouTube's Newest Music Mashup Video  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 29, 2014 7:02 AM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 29, 2014 7:02 AM UTC While [the first YouTube video](http://time.com/72892/the-first-youtube-video-was-uploaded-9-years-ago-today/) was uploaded nine years ago on April 23, 2005, the site went live in May. So to celebrate the anniversary, the video-sharing network has released a music mashup featuring various YouTube celebrities. _Frozen_ fans will be excited to learn that, according to data from YouTube, “there are more than 120,000 videos inspired by “[Let It Go](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59al3MA48iMn%5FRb2U6VCae2Ll)“ (based on videos posted with that title).” Not to mention there are “half a million by ‘[Gangnam Style](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZCKHjcLjCk&list=PL1l9pGBBX53g44jQSJGY1junF16ezOc3Z),’ and a stunning 1.5 million videos by ‘[Harlem Shake](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjd9OT1rI6vQ5qPSPhIbKlg1U%5FKxrpo1m),'” in case you thought those memes were dead. **WATCH:** [The First YouTube Video](http://time.com/72892/the-first-youtube-video-was-uploaded-9-years-ago-today/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/"},"headline":"WATCH: YouTube's Newest Music Mashup Video","datePublished":"2014-05-29T07:02:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:01.741Z","description":"YouTube stars get together to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the website going live.","url":"https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/134448/watch-youtube-newest-music-mashup-video-for-9th-birthday/","name":"WATCH: YouTube's Newest Music Mashup Video"}}]}] ```