Gangnam Style
"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일) is a song by PSY. The music video has been watched over 3.2 billion times on YouTube as of August 28, 2018[update].[1] It is the first video in the website's history that more than 1 billion people have seen. It has made people make many videos like it but in other locations, named "parodies". Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Ban Ki-moon tried the song's dance moves.[2]
| "Gangnam Style" | ||||
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| Song by PSY | ||||
| from PSY's Best 6th Part 1" | ||||
| Released | July 15, 2012 | |||
| Genre | K-pop, electro house, K-hip hop | |||
| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | YG, Universal Republic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoo Gun-hyung, PSY | |||
| Producer(s) | Yang Hyun-seok | |||
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| "Gangnam Style" at YouTube | ||||
| "Gangnam Style" | |
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| Hangul | 강남스타일 |
| Hanja | 江南스타일 |
| Revised Romanization | <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Gangnamseutail |
| McCune–Reischauer | <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Kangnamsŭt‘ail |
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Gangnam Style continued to be the most viewed YouTube video until August 4th 2017, months since the music video for Despacito was first released.[3]
Gangnam Style Media
Search volume for K-pop since 2008 according to Google Trends
"Horse dance" of Gangnam Style performed by Korean musician Psy.
Dancers performing "Gangnam Style" at the Gimje Horizon Festival
Psy with the "Gangnam Style" logo
Clayton Anderson, flight engineer of the International Space Station's 15th expedition dances "Gangnam Style" in a parody uploaded by the space agency NASA
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon performs "Gangnam Style" with Psy
"Gangnam Style" as parodied in a comic strip published by Dyess AFB, an airbase of the U.S. Air Force
Psy performing "Gangnam Style" during Future Music Festival Asia 2013 at Sepang.
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References
- ↑ "Popularity of Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Analyzed Realistically". KpopStarz. 2012-09-02. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ↑ Couture, Pamela; Mager, Robert; McCarroll, Pamela; Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie (2015). Complex Identities in a Shifting World: One God, Many Stories. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90509-3.
- ↑ "'Despacito' Just Became the First Video to Reach Three Billion Views on YouTube". Forbes.
