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Probably, but for the sake of it, here are the 10 most popular songs in the world according to YouTube. The big boy.

Despite a version with Justin Bieber later appearing, the original version of Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee remains the highest-viewed music video on Youtube, of all time. An artists who appears twice in this list, Ed Sheeran has swept the world since emerging with his debut EP in His biggest hit remains Shape of You , released in Taking a step down to — gasp — only 4.

A straight-up viral hit that broke international, linguistic, and cultural banners, Gangnam Style from PSY was instantly one of the most popular songs in the world when it hit the internet in Maroon 5 have a score of hits to their name, but none bigger that Sugar. In it has claimed over three billion views on Youtube, making it one of the most popular songs ever dropped on the platform. Skip to content. Copied to clipboard. Like fellow pop royal Lorde, Eilish was just a teen when she dropped this subversive ode to bad behavior on the pop establishment like a megaton bomb stuffed with glitter and spiders.

Brother Finneas' thumping beats and spooky hooks hold the whole thing together, but it's Eilish's smoky voice — bounding between deeply unsettling and sprightly — that sells the whole ghoulish affair, cementing herself as the antithesis of squeaky-clean pop stars and scaring the ever-loving shit out of her target audience's parents along the way. An instant feel-great classic, Lizzo's "Good As Hell" is the very definition of infectious thanks to its instantly recognizable piano beat, Lizzo's forceful-yet-playful cadence and a pervasive, universal ability to make anybody within earshot strut for its entire runtime.

With Pharrell on vocal duties and Nile Rodgers on guitar, the helmeted Frenchmen's biggest non-Weeknd hit is a piece of wipe-clean disco so immaculately crafted you might imagine there was some algebra involved.

Like all pop songs, it throbs with life, but also glows in brilliant neon that's wholly Daft Punk's. The K-Pop supergroup has taken over the world, and there seems to be no sign of stopping. You either get on the train or get run over by it. Luckily, the band's long-awaited English-language debut delivered, hijacking airwaves and talk shows with its perfectly calibrated bubblegum pop that starts at a fever pitch and manages a sustained crescendo throughout.

The former One Direction star's solo career has gone many unexpected places, no more so than on his recent, genre-hopping Fine Line. And while the funky "Watermelon Sugar" brings the double entendres, "Adore You" is Styles at his most endearing and infectious: a slow-paced, driving, and vocally transcendent instant classic in every sense.

As a bonus, the surreal video finds the hearthrob enamored with a giant fish Ariana's evolution from sugar-sweet pop princess to her generation's foremost chronicler of the Kama Sutra has been astonishing, if a little much for the more pearl-clutching early fans.

But she hit her most universally appealing sweet spot with this bop, which ascends to the stratosphere with each repetition of "pickin' it up," her voice soaring along the way and, in turn, announcing the arrival of a formidable superstar whose talent stands taller than even her highest ponytail. Pop's current heir apparent exploded onto the scene with this universally gripping, emotionally ripe tale of teenage yearning: a piano ballad with a forlorn melody, a driving backbeat and some of the most bracing vocals in recent pop.

Rodrigo wears her love of Taylor Swift on her sleeve, so much so that fans call her the second coming while haterss cry ripoff. For what it's worth, Swift unlike Courtney Love is a fan… and rumors continue to swirl about an upcoming collaboration that could rock the pop world to its core. Taking a hiatus from making music to focus on growing up a little, the Biebs came back with Purpose in Empowering, escalating and full of raw power, "Titanium" is what happens when one of the world's best producers meets one of its most prolific pop writers.

Sia may have found more success swinging from chandeliers, but as a vocalist she was never more explosive than she was on this all-timer. Only somebody as tuned-in to the pop landscape as Williams could take a throwaway track from a Minions movie and turn it into an enduring ode to being in a great mood to rival Bobby McFerrin.

Think of it like this: Three years after "Happy," Justin Timberlake tried to replicate its good vibes for Trolls.

We're not talking about Justin Timberlake here. Such is the power of a Neptune using his powers for good. Take away the mountain of memes, ignore Drake's beautiful dad dancing and this pop song would still be a winner for the ages. That delicate, trickling calypso beat effortlessly shrugs off the lover who never calls, transforming a classic tale of ghosting into an eminently danceable revenge song that everyone — ex included — would struggle to resist.

No wonder it was literally inescapable for the whole of summer ' Nasty, sensual, raw and wholly mysterious, Kelis's vocal gymnastics and schoolyard-adjacent boast "my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" has given this thunderously magnetic dance-floor anthem legs.

Prodded along by an all-time great Neptunes beat, it holds the unique distinction of rivaling decidedly not-pop-affiliated Daniel Day-Lewis for best milkshake quote… even though we're still not quite sure what, exactly, her milkshake is. Regardless, it's definitely better than ours.

Nearly inescapable between and , "Despacito" is one of those songs that became so prevalent that people mistook its ubiquity for annoyance. A few years on, however, the ultra-smooth collision of Latin pop and reggaeton has aged remarkably well from song-of-the-summer status to certifiable classic.

Frankly, we're still not sure what "this jelly" is, and 20 years on we're still not sure we're ready for it. Missy's avante-garde approach to pop-infused hip-hop is at its best when she's got certified master Timbaland at her side, and no pairing hits with the same mix of chaotic glee, weirdness and pop sensibility as "Work It. Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia is full of bangers, but none are quite as instantly timeless — and out of time — as this throwback retrofuturistic jam that pulses with verve, confidence and pure joy.

Once the singer reaches the punchy "yeah yeah yeah" callback, you'll be soaring with her. Go ahead and skip the DaBaby remix… Dua's got this one without his help. Both sides of the pond get some swagger on this pulsing throwback track occupying the space between disco, hip hop and pop. Estelle's richly playful and cockney-infused vocals provide the perfect antidote to Kanye's braggadocio… no small task, given that the guy is 5-foot-7 of pure ego. Even 'Ye takes a back seat to Estelle when she's firing on all cylinders with an assist by wil.

Outside American Idol viewers and the two people who watched From Justin to Kelly , this was the world's true introduction to Clarkston's mighty lung capacity, and a high point for the early-noughties pop-rock explosion. The gleeful break-up anthem comes across like a glorious cross between Avril Lavigne and "I Will Survive. A slinky, swaggering slow jam that meets at the intersection of hip-hop and pop, Eve's biggest hit is essentially a four-minute not-so-humblebrag about career success, the kind of thing that male rappers talk about all the time but somehow drew blowback when a woman did it see also: "WAP".

Let the haters feign their dismay. The rest of us will be out on the dance floor and soaking in the silky sass. Psy's internet-breaking sendup of South Korean excess is absolutely impossible to ignore, try though you may.

The first song to reach 1 billion YouTube hits, it's been parodied, homaged, remade and remixed. Yet it refuses to die. That's because, against all odds, it rips.

Yes, it's a song you're ashamed to catch yourself dancing to. But guess what? It happens to all of us. Fifteen years later, it still feels gloriously alien. About us. Contact us. Discover the best of the city, first. We already have this email. Try another? Best pop songs of all time, ranked. Show more. Recommended [image].