Top 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of All Time

"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee surpassed 8.5 billion views by 2025, remaining the most-watched non-children's video on YouTube. Released in January 2017, it became the first Spanish-language video to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 25 years and held the record for most-viewed YouTube video for over three years.

"Johny Johny Yes Papa" by LooLoo Kids accumulated over 6.8 billion views by 2025, a testament to the insatiable appetite for children's nursery rhyme content on YouTube. The Romanian-produced channel's colourful animation and repetitive format make it an instinctive choice for parents of toddlers worldwide, generating enormous view counts through repeated plays.

Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," released in January 2017, amassed over 6.2 billion views by 2025, making it the most-watched video by any UK artist in YouTube history. The song spent 12 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK and was the most-streamed Spotify track of 2017, demonstrating the compound effect of cross-platform dominance.

"See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, recorded as a tribute to the late Paul Walker for the Furious 7 soundtrack, reached over 6.1 billion views and briefly held the YouTube record in 2015. Its emotional context — a heartfelt memorial to a beloved actor — gave it a permanence that pure pop hits rarely achieve.

"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars accumulated over 5.4 billion views by 2025, a remarkable figure for a track that predates YouTube's shift to autoplay-driven view inflation. Its universal danceability, pristine production, and Bruno Mars's showmanship gave it a timeless quality that keeps it generating new views from new audiences a decade later.

"Learning Colors — Colorful Eggs on a Farm" by Miroshka TV surpassed 5.2 billion views, another entry in the dominant children's content category. The simple concept — colourful eggs revealing toys — taps directly into toddler fascination with colour sorting and surprise, and the video has been auto-played countless billions of times on tablets worldwide.

"Gangnam Style" by South Korean rapper PSY was the first YouTube video to reach one billion views in December 2012 and has since accumulated over 5.1 billion views. It remains a landmark moment in the globalisation of Korean pop culture, predating the K-pop wave by years and proving that language was no barrier to viral music success.

The Russian animated series Masha and the Bear's episode "Recipe for Disaster" accumulated over 4.8 billion views, the highest view count for any single animated TV episode on YouTube. The slapstick comedy, set to a memorable food-preparation sequence, became a global phenomenon beloved across cultures despite containing almost no dialogue.

Cocomelon's "Bath Song" represents the channel's highest-performing individual video with over 4.5 billion views, a figure that illustrates the extraordinary power of the children's content algorithm. The song's routine-reinforcing content — making bath time fun — resonated globally with parents seeking to use YouTube as a parenting tool.

"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee surpassed 8.5 billion views by 2025, remaining the most-watched non-children's video on YouTube. Released in January 2017, it became the first Spanish-language video to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 25 years and held the record for most-viewed YouTube video for over three years.

"Johny Johny Yes Papa" by LooLoo Kids accumulated over 6.8 billion views by 2025, a testament to the insatiable appetite for children's nursery rhyme content on YouTube. The Romanian-produced channel's colourful animation and repetitive format make it an instinctive choice for parents of toddlers worldwide, generating enormous view counts through repeated plays.

Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," released in January 2017, amassed over 6.2 billion views by 2025, making it the most-watched video by any UK artist in YouTube history. The song spent 12 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK and was the most-streamed Spotify track of 2017, demonstrating the compound effect of cross-platform dominance.

"See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, recorded as a tribute to the late Paul Walker for the Furious 7 soundtrack, reached over 6.1 billion views and briefly held the YouTube record in 2015. Its emotional context — a heartfelt memorial to a beloved actor — gave it a permanence that pure pop hits rarely achieve.

"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars accumulated over 5.4 billion views by 2025, a remarkable figure for a track that predates YouTube's shift to autoplay-driven view inflation. Its universal danceability, pristine production, and Bruno Mars's showmanship gave it a timeless quality that keeps it generating new views from new audiences a decade later.

"Learning Colors — Colorful Eggs on a Farm" by Miroshka TV surpassed 5.2 billion views, another entry in the dominant children's content category. The simple concept — colourful eggs revealing toys — taps directly into toddler fascination with colour sorting and surprise, and the video has been auto-played countless billions of times on tablets worldwide.

"Gangnam Style" by South Korean rapper PSY was the first YouTube video to reach one billion views in December 2012 and has since accumulated over 5.1 billion views. It remains a landmark moment in the globalisation of Korean pop culture, predating the K-pop wave by years and proving that language was no barrier to viral music success.

The Russian animated series Masha and the Bear's episode "Recipe for Disaster" accumulated over 4.8 billion views, the highest view count for any single animated TV episode on YouTube. The slapstick comedy, set to a memorable food-preparation sequence, became a global phenomenon beloved across cultures despite containing almost no dialogue.

Cocomelon's "Bath Song" represents the channel's highest-performing individual video with over 4.5 billion views, a figure that illustrates the extraordinary power of the children's content algorithm. The song's routine-reinforcing content — making bath time fun — resonated globally with parents seeking to use YouTube as a parenting tool.