The 30 most watched videos in YouTube's history, by lifetime views.
Snapshot (UTC) · all time · 30 rows · refreshed once a day
#1: Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children by Baby Shark - Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories, 17.40B views.
This board is all-time. The daily boards below rank what is trending right now.
By lifetime view count, highest first. Kabo reads each video's view count straight from YouTube's official Data API once a day and re-sorts the board, so the order here follows the real numbers rather than a number typed in by hand.
No, and the difference matters. This board is all-time: videos that have accumulated the most views since the day they were uploaded, some of them a decade ago. The monthly board ranks only videos published in the last 30 days. They share almost no entries.
The membership list is maintained by hand against Wikipedia's public, long-running list of most-viewed YouTube videos, which changes only a few times a year. The numbers on this page do not come from Wikipedia — every view count, title, channel and upload date is read from YouTube's own API by Kabo.
Once a day. The snapshot date is printed above the table. Positions barely move at this scale — a video near the top gains millions of views a week but so do the ones around it.
Because of how children watch. A nursery rhyme gets replayed by the same child dozens of times, often on autoplay, and the audience renews itself every few years. Music videos need a far larger one-time audience to reach the same number.
