Despite having long been surpassed by Luis Fonsi's global smash hit “*” in terms of total views, Adele's record for fastest video release to generate *** billion views still stands as of June 2026. Released in October 2015, singer Adele's release “Hello” from her upcoming comeback album “25” racked up *** million views in the first four days of being uploaded to YouTube and crossed the *** billion view mark after **** days.
Viral videos on YouTube
Music videos are among the most popular content on YouTube, regularly drawing huge audiences during highly-anticipated releases of leading artists. When Korean pop band BTS released “Boy with Luv feat. Halsey”, the music video generated **** million views within the first ** hours of release. This would already be notable on its own, but it is also considerable because the record for the most streams in the first ** hours by a music video had just been achieved by fellow K-pop group Blackpink less than a week before BTS’ upload. The average number of days for songs to reach one billion views on YouTube varies by year of release. Music videos with a billion or more views released in 2017 only took *** days to reach that milestone, compared to the *** days it took a billion-view video released in 2015.
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