List of most-liked YouTube videos
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This list of most-liked YouTube videos contains the top 30 videos with the most likes of all time, taken directly from the video page. YouTube implemented a like and dislike button on these pages in March 2010, part of a major redesign of the site. This served as a replacement for their five-star rating system;[1] YouTube's designers found the previous system ineffective because the options to rate a video between two and four stars were rarely selected.[2]
The music video for LMFAO's song "Party Rock Anthem" stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy's "Gangnam Style" surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes. Following this accomplishment, "Gangnam Style" entered the Guinness World Records book as the most-liked video on YouTube and on the Internet as of 2012. Psy's video remained the most-liked on YouTube for nearly four years until August 27, 2016, when Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" featuring Charlie Puth surpassed it with 11.21 million likes. Less than a year later, on July 25, 2017, Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" featuring Daddy Yankee claimed the top spot with 16.01 million likes. Despacito became the first YouTube video to reach 50 million likes on 23 October 2022.
Dednahype holds the record for the most liked non-music video, "OMG Best Teacher," at 34 million likes. "OMG Best Teacher" is also the most-liked video uploaded under the YouTube Shorts banner.
Top videos
The following table lists the top 30 most-liked videos on YouTube, with each total rounded to the nearest ten thousand likes, uploader, and upload date.[upper-alpha 1]
No. | Video name | Uploader / artist | Likes (millions) | Upload date | Notes |
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1. | "Despacito"[3] | Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee | 50.66 | January 12, 2017 | [upper-alpha 2] |
2. | "See You Again"[5] | Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth | 40.02 | April 6, 2015 | [upper-alpha 3] |
3. | "Baby Shark Dance"[6] | Pinkfong | 38.92 | June 17, 2016 | [upper-alpha 4] |
4. | "Dynamite"[7] | BTS | 35.80 | August 21, 2020 | [upper-alpha 5] |
5. | "OMG Best Teacher"[10] | Dednahype | 34.03 | December 21, 2021 | |
6. | "Shape of You"[11] | Ed Sheeran | 30.95 | January 30, 2017 | [upper-alpha 6] |
7. | "How Zach King Gets Away With Doing Graffiti"[12] | dollarbill (re-uploader), Zach King (creator) | 28.73 | July 23, 2019 | [upper-alpha 7] |
8. | "Boy with Luv"[13] | BTS featuring Halsey | 27.52 | April 12, 2019 | [upper-alpha 8] |
9. | "Home Alone in a Rush"[14] | DanielLaBelle | 26.84 | December 7, 2021 | |
10. | "Faded"[15] | Alan Walker | 26.38 | December 3, 2015 | [upper-alpha 9] |
11. | "Gangnam Style"[16] | Psy | 26.29 | July 15, 2012 | [upper-alpha 10] |
12. | "Would you fly to Paris for a Baguette"[19] | MrBeast | 25.41 | December 8, 2022 | |
13. | "Lovely"[20] | Billie Eilish and Khalid | 24.31 | April 29, 2018 | [upper-alpha 11] |
14. | "How You Like That"[21] | Blackpink | 24.25 | June 26, 2020 | [upper-alpha 12] |
15. | "Alone"[22] | Marshmello | 24.18 | July 2, 2016 | [upper-alpha 13] |
16. | "Our MOST INTENSE Balloon Popping Race"[23] | How Ridiculous | 24.05 | April 19, 2022 | |
17. | "Kill This Love"[24] | Blackpink | 24.00 | April 4, 2019 | [upper-alpha 14] |
18. | "Baby"[25] | Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris | 23.13 | February 19, 2010 | [upper-alpha 15] |
19. | "Butter"[28] | BTS | 22.68 | May 21, 2021 | [upper-alpha 16] |
20. | "DNA"[29] | BTS | 22.52 | September 18, 2017 | [upper-alpha 17] |
21. | "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du"[30] | Blackpink | 22.51 | June 15, 2018 | [upper-alpha 18] |
22. | "If Cleaning Was a Timed Sport. Part 2"[31] | DanielLaBelle | 21.54 | October 18, 2022 | |
23. | "Make This Video The Most Liked Video On Youtube"[32] | MrBeast | 21.28 | January 16, 2019 | |
24. | "Girls Like You"[33] | Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B | 20.83 | May 31, 2018 | [upper-alpha 19] |
25. | "Social Experiment - What would you do?"[34] | ILYABORZOV | 20.59 | Feb 26, 2022 | |
26. | "Fake Love"[35] | BTS | 20.51 | May 18, 2018 | |
27. | "Believer"[36] | Imagine Dragons | 20.41 | March 7, 2017 | |
28. | Waka Waka(This Time For Africa)"[37] | Shakira | 20.14 | June 4, 2010 | |
29. | "Idol"[38] | BTS | 20.14 | August 24, 2018 | |
30. | "kaika koi nhi hota uska khuda hota hai"[39] | Azhan5star | 20.10 | November 19, 2021 | |
As of 16 January 2023 |
Historical most-liked videos
The following table lists the videos that became YouTube's most-liked video, from the implementation of the like button in March 2010 to the present.
Video name | Uploader | Likes[* 1] | Upload date | Date achieved | Days held | Ref | Notes |
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"Despacito"⁂[3] | Luis Fonsi | 16,010,000 | January 12, 2017 | July 25, 2017 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.[† 1] | [40] | [upper-alpha 20] |
"See You Again"[5] | Wiz Khalifa | 11,210,000 | April 6, 2015 | August 27, 2016 | 332 | [41] | |
"Gangnam Style"*[16] | Psy | 1,570,000 | July 15, 2012 | September 13, 2012 | 1444 | [17] | [upper-alpha 21] |
"Party Rock Anthem"[44] | LMFAO | 1,390,000 | March 8, 2011 | April 4, 2012 | 162 | [45] | |
"Kony 2012"[46] | Invisible Children | 1,350,000 | March 5, 2012 | March 17, 2012 | 18 | [47] | [upper-alpha 22] |
"Party Rock Anthem"[44] | LMFAO | 950,000 | March 8, 2011 | November 3, 2011 | 135 | [48] | [upper-alpha 23] |
"Baby"[25] | Justin Bieber | 760,000 | February 19, 2010 | July 6, 2011 | 120 | [52] | |
"Evolution of Dance"[53] | Judson Laipply | 620,000 | April 6, 2006 | March 31, 2010 | 462 | [54] | [upper-alpha 24] |
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- ↑ The approximate number of likes each video had when it became YouTube's most-liked video.
Timeline of most-liked videos (Mar 2010 – Jan 2021)
See also
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Notes
- ↑ Some videos may not be available worldwide due to YouTube's regional restrictions in certain countries.
- ↑ "Despacito" surpassed "See You Again" as the most-liked video on July 25, 2017; first video to reach 20 million likes on August 30, 2017;[4] first video to reach 30 million likes on September 29, 2018; first video to reach 40 million likes on September 24, 2020; and the first video to reach 50 million likes on October 23, 2022.
- ↑ "See You Again" surpassed "Gangnam Style" as the most-liked video on August 27, 2016; second video to reach 30 million likes on September 12, 2020.
- ↑ "Baby Shark Dance" is the fifth video to reach 20 million likes on August 31, 2020; fourth video to reach 30 million likes on August 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Dynamite" is the sixth and fastest video to reach 20 million likes, doing so on October 23, 2020, two months after release;[8] third and fastest video to reach 30 million likes on August 11, 2021, less than a year after release.[9]
- ↑ "Shape of You" is the third video to reach 20 million likes on June 12, 2019.
- ↑ "How Zach King Gets Away With Doing Graffiti" is the fourteenth video to reach 20 million likes on October 24, 2021.
- ↑ "Boy with Luv" is the eighth video to reach 20 million likes on December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Faded" is the fourth video to reach 20 million likes on July 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Gangnam Style" surpassed "Party Rock Anthem" as the most-liked video on September 13, 2012;[17] first video to reach 10 million likes on November 3, 2015;[18] seventh video to reach 20 million likes on December 7, 2020.
- ↑ "Lovely" is the fifteenth video to reach 20 million likes on October 25, 2021.
- ↑ "How You Like That" is the tenth video to reach 20 million likes on May 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Alone" is the ninth video to reach 20 million likes on March 31, 2021.
- ↑ "Kill This Love" is the eleventh video to reach 20 million likes on July 25, 2021.
- ↑ "Baby" surpassed "Evolution of Dance" as the most-liked video on July 6, 2011.[26][27] It is the sixteenth video to reach 20 million likes on December 23, 2021.
- ↑ "Butter" is the thirteenth video to reach 20 million likes on October 15, 2021.
- ↑ "DNA" is the twelfth video to reach 20 million likes on August 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" is the seventeenth video to reach 20 million likes on December 24, 2021.
- ↑ "Girls Like You" is the eighteenth video to reach 20 million likes on February 14, 2022.
- ↑ "Despacito" became the first video to reach 20 million likes on August 30, 2017;[4] first video to reach 30 million likes on September 29, 2018; first video to reach 40 million likes on September 24, 2020.
- ↑ "Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach 2 million likes on September 18, 2012,[42] 5 million likes on November 11, 2012,[43] and 10 million likes on November 3, 2015.[18]
- ↑ "Kony 2012" was a viral campaign by Invisible Children that aimed to raise support for Joseph Kony's arrest. In 12 days it became YouTube's most-liked video, only to be surpassed by "Party Rock Anthem" 18 days later.
- ↑ "Party Rock Anthem" was the first video to reach 1 million likes on November 15, 2011.[49][50][51] It is the only video on this list to hold the No. 1 spot on more than one occasion.
- ↑ "Evolution of Dance" was YouTube's first video to hold the No. 1 spot on this list. When the video was uploaded in 2006, YouTube still used the 5-star rating system. On March 31, 2010, when the rating system changed to likes and dislikes, all previous 1 star ratings were converted to dislikes and all 5 star ratings were converted to likes. This automatically made "Evolution of Dance" YouTube's most-liked video at the time.
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