Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ broke Youtube records last year by reaching a billion views. A year later, ‘Gangnam Style’ is still going strong and this time around, it has broken YouTube’s system itself by exceeding the view limit, prompting YouTube to upgrade its counter.
The video which was released in 2012, was announced to be its most watched ever and has been viewed more than 2,147,483,647 times. YouTube has now changed the maximum view limit to 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more than nine quintillion – a 64 bit integer.
“We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY,” YouTube wrote in a blog post. They have also acknowledged the actual number of views is probably much higher.
