South Korean singer Psy's 'Gangnam Style' breaks YouTube

By May Jesaro (@KiptuiMay)

When we all thought no human alive would break YouTube, South Korean singer Psy comes along with a song and actually does.

Psy’s Gangnam Style video which was released in 2012, has surpassed 2,147,483,647 views on YouTube, maxing out the site’s original view counter. “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,” wrote Google,which owns YouTube,  in a blog post this week. The video has been recently updated to 64-bit view counter across the site.

The video which is almost two and a half years old was the first clip to hit a billion views and is the most-watched video of all time. It is the number 5 most-played video on YouTube, says google spokesman Matt McLernon.