YouTube has revealed its top 10 viral and music videos for 2017.
As every year, YouTube announces its top performing videos for the past 12 months. The winners, if they can be called that, are chosen not just on number of views but also on the level of interaction. It has to be a complete package -- number of views, shares, comments, and likes.
On top of the music video list, not just for 2017 but in the entire YouTube history, is "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, not the version that features Justin Bieber. At 4.4 billion and counting, it unseated the previous most viewed YouTube video in history. That was "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth, which only got to enjoy that seat for a month, after surpassing Psy's "Gangnam Style," which owned the spot for five years. "Despacito" only needed 204 days to break the all-time record.
Apart from that first spot, six other acts made it to YouTube's top 10.
Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," Bruno Mars' "That's What I Like," Jason Derullo's "Swalla," and DJ Khaled's "I'm the One" rounded up the list.
As for the viral front, on top with over 183 million and counting is a spot from Thailand's "The Mask Singer" featuring Oyster Mask. Sheeran also made it to number 2 here, with the "Shape of You" dance cover from L.A. choreographer Kyle Hanagami.
Season 12 "America's Got Talent" winner Darci Lynne made it to the 4<sup>th spot, with her audition piece at over 41 million views. A third clip from Ed Sheeran -- his Carpool Karaoke singing, still, "Shape of You" and a few other songs with James Corden got the fifth spot.
Also in the viral top 10 is the bad lip reading of President Donald Trump's inauguration, the full clip of Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show, as well as that clip of BBC news interrupted by two adorable toddlers.
