YouTube was unleashed on the world twenty years ago this month and its fair to say it’s had an impact on the musical landscape. Parents will tell you it’s mostly been in the form of Baby Shark being played over and over, but there’s been other things. In fact, the number of views of videos has become a cultural touchstone, a sign of how songs turn from popular to mega-watt viral phenomenon.
There have been over 20 trillion uploaded videos to the site in total but here are the Top Ten in music, as of this week:
