PSY and his wildly popular "Gangnam Style" music video surpassed Justin Bieber's "Baby" as the most viewed music video (and overall video) of all time on YouTube.
As of noon on Saturday, the viewcountsstood at 805 million to 803 million . Bieber's video picked up the designationin July of 2010, when the then-rising star himself passed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". Though it was posted in February of 2010, "Baby" remains popular, continuing to garner between 350k and 500k views per day .
PSY's video first spread from South Korea to the rest of the world in early August . It's been a massive hit at a global level unlike anything we've ever seen before. Each day, "Gangnam Style" is still being watched between 7 and 10 million times .
To give you a sense of how quickly"Gangnam Style" has reached this milestone, Have a Look at the chart above that shows the viewership path each video took as they each approach 1 billion views
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