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After one week of the band's reign, "Gangnam Style" regained its number one position and stayed at the top spot for a further four weeks, tallying a total of six nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. The track was ranked in the top ten of the chart for 17 consecutive weeks before it fell to number 11 on the January 14, 2013, chart. [336]
"Gangnam Style" reached the unprecedented milestone of one billion YouTube views on December 21, 2012. A spoof documentary by videographer Simon Gosselin [40] was posted on YouTube and had promoted 2012 doomsday rumors across social media services such as Facebook and Twitter that linked "Gangnam Style" to a fake Nostradamus prophecy. [41]
CNN's Jake Tapper asserted that Psy's concern about being left behind as a one-hit wonder is "completely founded". [25] Simon Vozick-Levinson, associate editor at Rolling Stone, pointed out that "It's almost impossible to create another hit like "Gangnam Style". [25] Psy responded to these concerns and says, "I've been doing this for 12 years.
Psy released "Gangnam Style" on July 15, 2012. It was the first video on YouTube to reach one billion views, and its impact is still felt today.
Since its 2012 release, South Korean pop artist Psy's hit song 'Gangnam Style' has remained one of YouTube's most-watched music videos.
South Korean musician Psy shot to fame with the K-pop song "Gangnam Style" back in 2012, and it's still breaking records today. In fact, it actually managed to 'break' YouTube.
Park Jae-sang was born on December 31, 1977, [2] to an affluent family in the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea. [3] He was born into the Milyang Park clan. [4] His father, Park Won-Ho, is the executive chairman of DI Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment listed on the Korea Exchange. [5]
Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come On Eileen" Arguably the truest one-hit wonder as far as Americans are concerned (the band had three other Top 10 hits in the U.K.), this sweeping come-on of a folk ...