Gangnam Style
"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일) is a song by South Korean musician PSY. The music video has been watched over 3.2 billion times on YouTube as of August 28, 2018[update].[1] It is the first video in the website's history that more than 1 billion people have seen. It has made people make many videos like it but in other locations, named "parodies". Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Ban Ki-moon tried the song's dance moves.[2]
| "Gangnam Style" | ||||
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| Single by PSY | ||||
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| Released | July 15, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011–2012 | |||
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| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | YG, Universal Republic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoo Gun-hyung, PSY | |||
| Producer(s) | Yang Hyun-seok | |||
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| "Gangnam Style" at YouTube | ||||
| "Gangnam Style" | |
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| Hangul | 강남스타일 |
| Hanja | 江南스타일 |
| Revised Romanization | Gangnamseutail |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kangnamsŭt‘ail |
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Gangnam Style continued to be the most viewed YouTube video until August 4, 2017, months since the music video for Despacito was first released.[3]
Gangnam Style Media
Search volume for K-pop since 2008 according to Google Trends
Dancers performing "Gangnam Style" at the Gimje Horizon Festival
Psy with the "Gangnam Style" logo in September 2012
NASA staff performing the "Gangnam Style" dance at the Johnson Space Center
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon performs the "Gangnam Style" dance with Psy.
"Gangnam Style" as parodied in a comic strip published by Dyess AFB, an airbase of the U.S. Air Force
Psy performing "Gangnam Style" during Future Music Festival Asia 2013 at Sepang
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References
- ↑ "Popularity of Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Analyzed Realistically". KpopStarz. 2012-09-02. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ↑ Couture, Pamela; Mager, Robert; McCarroll, Pamela; Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie (2015). Complex Identities in a Shifting World: One God, Many Stories. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90509-3.
- ↑ "'Despacito' Just Became the First Video to Reach Three Billion Views on YouTube". Forbes.
