| Giddyap! The official music video for “Old Town Road,” the Western-themed 2019 breakout from Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club. Show The achievement marks both Lil Nas X and Cyrus’ first entry to YouTube’s Billion Views Club. The hip-hop/country hybrid spent a record 26 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on YouTube’s U.S. Top Songs chart, and set the record for longest consecutive spot at No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with a 19-week run. Meanwhile, the 5-minute “official movie” version of “Old Town Road” on YouTube, which features cameos by Chris Rock, Diplo, Vince Staples and Rico Nasty, has nearly 650 million views to date. At the 2020 Grammy Awards, that video took home the trophy for best music video; “Old Town Road” also won for best pop duo/group performance and was nominated for record of the year. Lil Nas X spent $50 total to record the original “Old Town Road” track in less than an hour at an Atlanta studio before he released it on Dec. 3, 2018 — and it went viral on TikTok. The remix he recorded with Cyrus was released April 5, 2019, and was about to take the top spot on Billboard’s country music chart, before Billboard disqualified it as not containing enough country elements and reclassified it as R&B/hip-hop. YouTube last month recognized the 10-year anniversary of the first song to break the billion-views barrier: Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” which remains in the top five most-viewed music videos on the platform with 4.5 billion views (and counting). The most-viewed YouTube video ever is toddler smash hit “Baby Shark Dance,” which recently crested 11 billion views. Lil Nas X celebrated the milestone of “Old Town Road” topping 1 billion YouTube views in a Twitter post, exulting “WE DID IT!” along with a photo of a woman wearing a T-shirt that says, “Old Bitches Winning.” For Lil Nas X, it all started with “Old Town Road,” his earth-shattering 2019 hit. Now, the song’s classic music video has entered rare territory, having just reached 1 billion views on YouTube (it’s at exactly 1,000,153,128 as of this post). According to data from kworb.net, the clip is just the 322nd music video to ever top a billion plays on the platform. Nas had a celebratory reaction to the news, tweeting a photo of a woman at a party with a shirt reading “Old B*tches Winning” and writing, “WE DID IT!”
The official video isn’t the only “Old Town Road” clip with a high view count: The “Official Movie” has about 648 million plays and the audio of the Billy Ray Cyrus remix has about 580 million views of its own. In total, all the “Old Town Road” videos on Lil Nas X’s YouTube channel have about 2.4 billion views. Just how uncommon is it for a music video to hit a billion views on YouTube? Well, let’s look at some data (which may not be completely accurate but is good enough for the purposes of this thought exercise). Per a July post from Earthweb, there are about 800 million total videos on YouTube. In 2019, Digital Music News noted that videos in the music category made up 5 percent of total YouTube videos in 2018. 5 percent of 800 million is 40 million. Not all of those 40 million are music videos, though, so let’s say (based on absolutely nothing) that just 1 percent of those 40 million videos are music videos, so 400,000. Of those, only 322 have hit a billion views, which is about 0.08 percent (or 8 percent of 1 percent). There was a time in 2019 when it was impossible not to hear “Old Town Road.” The massive hit broke records all over the place, becoming the most-certified song in RIAA history, going 14-times platinum. Nas X released seemingly countless remixes of the song, and artists all over the industry were eager to help out. Now, the song’s music video has reached another milestone, breaking one billion views on YouTube yesterday. According to kworb.net, it is the 322nd music video ever to hit the number. Lil Nas X celebrated the event on Twitter, posting a picture of a woman with a shirt that reads, “Old b***hes winning,” and writing, “We did it!” Other versions of the song on YouTube have racked up quite the view count. All of the “Old Town Road” videos on the rapper’s channel total about 2.4 billion views combined. The “Official Movie” has about 648 million views, and the audio version of the Billy Ray Cyrus remix has 580 million plays. Lil Nas X has proven himself to be far more than a one-hit-wonder, however. Last year, Nas X released the tremendously successful album Montero, which included the hit single of the same name as well as “Industry Baby.” Lil Nas now leads the 2022 MTV VMA nominations, tied with his collaborator Jack Harlow as well as Kendrick Lamar. The rapper also recently released the single “Late To Da Party (F*ck BET),” which featured YoungBoy Never Broke Again and referenced BET snubbing Nas X for its award show. The organization tried to cover for themselves, saying that they “will always rock with Lil Nas X.” How many views did Old Town Road get on YouTube?Other versions of the song on YouTube have racked up quite the view count. All of the “Old Town Road” videos on the rapper's channel total about 2.4 billion views combined. The “Official Movie” has about 648 million views, and the audio version of the Billy Ray Cyrus remix has 580 million plays.
How many streams has Old Town Road had?According to the Twitter account, Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus has more than 2.9 billion on-demand streams.
How many plays does Old Town Road have on Spotify?On audio-only platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, the cut racked up another 1,001,658,000 plays. The song is No. 1 on the overall streamed list as well as both the audio and video-only tallies.
How much money did Old Town Road generate?Lil Nas X's song “Old Town Road” was a huge success, and he made a lot of money from it. It is estimated that he made around $4 million from the song. Grammy-winning rapper and record-breaking artist Lil Nas X has a multi-million-dollar net worth, according to Forbes magazine.
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