--- title: Most Popular YouTube Music Videos: Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Eminem description: The most-viewed music videos on YouTube canonical: https://time.com/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-01T21:48:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:08.035Z og:title: These Are the 10 Most Popular Music Videos on YouTube og:description: Spoiler alert: 'Gangnam Style' is number one og:url: https://time.com/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/ 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: These Are the 10 Most Popular Music Videos on YouTube twitter:description: Spoiler alert: 'Gangnam Style' is number one twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are the 10 Most Popular Music Videos on YouTube by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 1, 2014 9:48 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 1, 2014 9:48 PM UTC You know which music videos _you_ like to watch incessantly — but what about the rest of the world? YouTube has put together [a playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59anIMa-q4LpZLl5Ck4iJP6fb) compiling its 10 most-viewed music videos ever to pay homage to the artists racking up the heftiest numbers of streams. Here are the winners, along with the amount of views provided by YouTube. Of course, those stats are likely to continue climbing. ## 1\. PSY – Gangnam Style 2,052,142,296 views ## 2\. Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris – Baby 1,060,638,016 views ## 3\. Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull – On The Floor 767,272,725 views ## 4\. Eminem ft. Rihanna – Love The Way You Lie 716,231,316 views ## 5\. LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock – Party Rock Anthem 713,191,153 views ## 6\. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball 685,767,350 views ## 7\. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance 594,483,912 views ## 8\. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 570,877,802 views ## 9\. Don Omar ft. Lucenzo – Danza Kuduro 575,283,830 views ## 10\. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz – Thrift Shop 554,588,442 views ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/"},"headline":"These Are the 10 Most Popular Music Videos on YouTube","datePublished":"2014-08-01T21:48:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:08.035Z","description":"PSY pretty much blows everyone else out of the water","url":"https://time.com/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Music","Justin Bieber","Macklemore","YouTube","baby","Music videos","Lady Gaga"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/3071804/these-are-the-10-most-popular-music-videos-on-youtube/","name":"These Are the 10 Most Popular Music Videos on YouTube"}}]}] ```