“The world is a wonderful and beautiful place and I am very lucky,” the singer wrote on Twitter
The video for the hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” by the British pop singer Rick Astley has crossed the 1 billion views on YouTube, Variety magazine reported.
Fifty-five-year-old Astley noted the achievement by posting a video on Twitter in which he said: “I learned that the video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been shown 1 billion times on YouTube. The world is a wonderful and beautiful place and I am very lucky“.
The official footage of the hit song, uploaded nearly 12 years ago, crossed a significant line in part thanks to a popular joke on the Internet known as Rickrolling.
1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!
Rick https://t.co/mzyLznTr4R #NGGYU #NGGYU1Billion pic.twitter.com/p5xnn0OZcZ— Rick Astley (@rickastley) July 28, 2021
It involves sending a link to a specific topic, which instead refers the user to the song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. On the Day of the Joke on April 1 this year alone, the video has generated 2.3 million views, BTA reports.
The video for the artist’s hit single is only the fourth from the 80s of the last century after “Sweet Child o ‘Mine” by “Guns N Roses”, “Take on Me” by A-ha and “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson. which exceeds the limit of 1 billion views on YouTube.
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