# This is the most watched YouTube video of all time (2026 update)
Author: OneUp
Author URL: https://www.oneupapp.io/blog/author/oneup
Published: 2026-08-04
Category: Social Media
Category URL: https://www.oneupapp.io/blog/category/social-media
URL: https://www.oneupapp.io/blog/most-watched-youtube-video

The most watched YouTube video of all time is _Despacito_ by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee. The video has over 9 Billion views and 56 million Likes on YouTube.

_Despacito_’s became the most watched YouTube video ever in 2017, showing that YouTube and the music video industry are more popular than they have ever been. For a long period of time, nobody thought _Gangnam Style_ would ever be overtaken.

It also shows how YouTube has become a phenomenon globally. _Despacito_, which means “Slowly” in Spanish, is sung by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi in Spanish, and also features Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee.

_Despacito_ topped the charts of 47 countries and entered the Top 10 in ten others. It was the first song to top the Billboard 100 in Spanish in 20 years.

A few months later, Justin Bieber came out with a remixed version of _Despacito_, where he sang some lines in English. This most likely helped the original version’s popularity, but it didn’t overtake it or enter the YouTube Most Viewed charts.

_Despacito_ became the first YouTube video to ever hit three billion views. It overtook _See You Again_ by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth to become YouTube’s most watched video ever in August of 2017.


---
This blog is powered by Superblog. Visit https://superblog.ai to know more.
---