At the time, Google posted that it was the first video whose view count exceeded the limits of a 32-bit signed int (about 2.1 billion), so they had to refactor some code to make sure the counter would continue to work correctly once the video exceeded that many views.
The song has 5.9 billion watches on YouTube.
This made me curious about what the most viewed video was of all time.
This was in the top 10. But not number 1. Number 1 was a bit of a surprise, but not totally.
Check out this video.
At the time, Google posted that it was the first video whose view count exceeded the limits of a 32-bit signed int (about 2.1 billion), so they had to refactor some code to make sure the counter would continue to work correctly once the video exceeded that many views.