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    Get Smart: Why You Could be Missing Out on The Biggest, Most Obvious Growth Trend Ever

    What do Metallica, Gangnam Style, and PinkFong’s Baby Shark have in common? Over a billion YouTube views. Welcome to the world of internet-scale businesses.
    Chin Hui LeongBy Chin Hui LeongSeptember 1, 20211 Min Read
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    In December 2012, Gangnam Style, a song by Korean rapper Psy, became the first-ever YouTube video to hit a billion views.

    The achievement was extraordinary, given that there are only 75 million people in the world who speak Korean.  

    Today, less than nine years later, this astonishing statistic has become far more common. 

    According to Wikitubia, there are well over 200 videos with a billion views.

    The top YouTube video, Baby Shark Dance by Pinkfong, has over nine billion views. 

    At the same time, achieving a billion-view count has never been faster.

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