The Official Top 40 most-streamed music videos of the past 10 years
From Pinkfong to Post Malone and everything in between - we reveal the Official most-streamed music videos of the decade
It was inescapable for months in early 2019, and now Pinkfong’s Baby Shark is officially become the most-streamed video of the streaming era (July 2014-present), Official Charts can exclusively reveal.
Music video streams became eligible for the Official Singles Chart in July 2018, no doubt the key to Baby Shark's transcendent shift from the depths of video streaming platforms into the mainstream.
The track proved so popular, it even peaked at Number 6 on the Official Singles Chart in January 2019; its music video boasting an impressive 272 million UK music video streams to date to top our newly-unveiled list.
Speaking to Official Charts, Min-seok Kim, CEO of Baby Shark masterminds The Pinkfong Company says:
"We are thrilled and honored that Baby Shark has become the most streamed video in the UK Official Chart's streaming era.
"As a firm believer in the power of music, we’re grateful for this incredible milestone and the love from our UK fans for the last 10 years, and will continue to create joyful songs and content that can connect people across cultures and generations."
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Elsewhere in the Top 10, Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B's cameo-packed Girls Like You music video comes in at Number 2, with 157 million UK streams and counting.
The clip, released in 2017, features a whole host of famous faces including Gal Gadot, Camila Cabello and Jennifer Lopez; their combined star power surely catapulting it to success.
George Ezra is the highest-placing Brit on the list, with the springy Shotgun in at Number 3 with 124 million UK streams, while Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's singalong A Star Is Born track Shallow in at Number 4, with 112 million streams to its name.
Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved - which holds the title as the most-streamed single of all time in the UK - comes in at Number 5, with 97 million UK streams.
The music video to have racked up the most streams in one week is Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits (10), which managed 8.7 million UK streams in just seven days.
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Elsewhere on the list, Dwayne Johnson's You're Welcome, taken from 2016 Disney film Moana, lands at Number 11 (77.4 million UK streams), as virtual German band Gummy Bear's viral hit I Am Your Gummy Bear makes it to Number 13 (73.5 million streams).
Crazy Frog's chart-topping Axel F - which famously pipped Coldplay's Speed of Sound to Number 1 on its release in 2005 - even makes the list. The music video boasts just shy of 70 million UK streams to date.
If you tell us you didn't contribute that figure, we believe you. Thousands wouldn't.
The Official Top 40 most-streamed music videos of the past 10 years:
Pos | Title | Artist |
1 | BABY SHARK | PINKFONG |
2 | GIRLS LIKE YOU | MAROON 5 FT CARDI B |
3 | SHOTGUN | GEORGE EZRA |
4 | SHALLOW | LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER |
5 | SOMEONE YOU LOVED | LEWIS CAPALDI |
6 | PERFECT | ED SHEERAN |
7 | DANCE MONKEY | TONES & I |
8 | OLD TOWN ROAD | LIL NAS X |
9 | SUNFLOWER | POST MALONE FT SWAE LEE |
10 | BAD HABITS | ED SHEERAN |
11 | YOU'RE WELCOME | DWAYNE JOHNSON |
12 | LIFE IS GOOD | FUTURE FT DRAKE |
13 | I AM YOUR GUMMY BEAR | GUMMY BEAR |
14 | YOU ARE THE REASON | CALUM SCOTT |
15 | UNFORGETTABLE | FRENCH MONTANA FT SWAE LEE |
16 | AXEL F | CRAZY FROG |
17 | TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON | ED SHEERAN FT STORMZY |
18 | TASTE | TYGA FT OFFSET |
19 | EASTSIDE | BENNY BLANCO/HALSEY/KHALID |
20 | SHAPE OF YOU | ED SHEERAN |
21 | DESPACITO (REMIX) | LUIS FONSI/DADDY YANKEE/BIEBER |
22 | FUNKY FRIDAY | DAVE FT FREDO |
23 | VOSSI BOP | STORMZY |
24 | SWEET BUT PSYCHO | AVA MAX |
25 | SAY YOU WON'T LET GO | JAMES ARTHUR |
26 | SAVE YOUR TEARS | WEEKND |
27 | ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU | MARIAH CAREY |
28 | I DON'T CARE | ED SHEERAN & JUSTIN BIEBER |
29 | HEAD & HEART | JOEL CORRY FT MNEK |
30 | BLINDING LIGHTS | WEEKND |
31 | BETTER | KHALID |
32 | ROAR | KATY PERRY |
33 | LAST CHRISTMAS | WHAM |
34 | UPTOWN FUNK | MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS |
35 | SEE YOU AGAIN | WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH |
36 | LET HER GO | PASSENGER |
37 | WAKA WAKA (THIS TIME FOR AFRICA) | SHAKIRA FT FRESHLYGROUND |
38 | CAN'T STOP THE FEELING | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE |
39 | TAKE ME HOME | JESS GLYNNE |
40 | HUMAN | RAG'N'BONE MAN |
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danielcordell
If it's all banned from the Top 100 it doesn't matter these achievements because it's banned from the big one.
The good thing about being the runners of the chart is you can put rules in place for tracks to be legit at number one to promote a real fight over and people would be none the wiser just enjoy it more because again because more genres can be Number 1 even if something like a Baby Shark would have it's stats tranquilized with a poison dart to only a 4 billion units 4th place the week after.
The thing is letting our legit number ones just have the number one for 1 week so the legit Top of the Pops does get a week of holding the crown with no track bans.
The current AI numbers for Baby Shark indicate 18 billion streams over all the digital platforms counted in the Google Deepmind on YouTube Music collective streams AI counts system that by all intensive purposes means that Baby Shark is our current Number 1 on the UK Top 40 and with rules in place to take its units down after it claims the title for one week there would be a fair battle still but real Number Ones are real Number Ones despite the UK Top 100 saying it isn't.
That also backs up why we need an AI determined chart as it can clean the slate weekly to a blank canvas chart with no titles on it so it gets too low in every type of unit combined in that week not all time then it would be out when it gets to 200 cutdown on Friday where 1000s of pool is wiped out to make the accurate chart for the week for the 40-100-200 without track bans and a way to do it without because no play = no stay.
If a number hits similar numbers in total units to the previous week they will stay in Top 10 or whatever but if not it legitly means on a blank canvas people are tired of the track it's legit results and most importantly 0.5 divisions and ACR/SCR would be dead as the style is programmable with your chart rules on rubberbanding, entries at a time and weeks in Top 10 to not annoy the people into quitting following the chart to good songs go so style they are rubbish and boring by then.
Blank canvas weeks with no track bans 10000s of UK played tracks then whittled down to 200 on a Friday and then that 200 can still have updates all the way until the chart is over with the chart host having access to view the chart live in the AI software to announce the results live and when 40 is announced the fight for 40 is stopped all the way until number 1 meaning the results change live during the show in AI counting the units making for a very exiting show.
The final results is then put on as a written chart on here finished after only a couple of hours post chart and then once it's finalized on here the AI gets a blank canvas reset to reset it to no tracks and every track 0 units ready for another week of hopefully same results for tracks or they fall or they are gone the real british point of view in a integrity driven new version of the chart.
An AI system would hopefully bring it back to the good old days of CD's and Analogue when everyone couldn't wait to listen and follow the show weekly where the units are counted straight for that week only without counting previous weeks and if the love is out for a track it really won't linger on our chart like a like some tracks with the ACR/SCR and 0.5 divisions behaviour shows as it would be every track to be hit that week only counted in the system and only the units for that week a 200 cutdown on Friday and the tracks also moving positions as the chart is going on but once a number is lock in live that is it the final result of a live number giving it the double jeopardy if times out and you go up a place tough you are locked in.
It would also add Sales in the system for charts to not support sales already as everything the UK touches could turn to legit gold in both the main chart and the others hosted.