From a Goyte guitar cover to Carly Jepsen Ray "Call Mer Maybe" to Psy's "Gangnam Style", YouTube presents the top ten videos of 2012.
What's your favorite video of the year"
(YouTube Top Ten Videos via Pop Crunch)
1.) PSY — “Gangnam Style” : The Korean pop music video that surprised the world is set to hit 1 billion views and has become the most viewed video of all time in just six months.
2.) “Walk off the Earth” : This is the most-viewed cover song of 2012, attracting 140 million views this year.
4.) Call Me Maybe — Bieber, Gomez, Pena: This video, covering the song of the summer, kicked off a trend of lip sync videos that spanned from the Harvard baseball team and celebs to Olympians.
3.) KONY 2012: This video contained a call to action and collected 31 million views in a single day — the most views ever for a YouTube video.
5.) Epic Rap Battles — Obama vs. Romney: This episode featured well-known Obama impersonator Alphacat, and is one of the better known instances of the 2012 trend of Obama and Romney videos.
6.) Dramatic Surprise: This video, featuring a mysterious sign in the middle of a Flemish square, brought in 25 million views in its first week.
7.) Why You Asking All Them Questions: Comedian Emmanuel Hudson’s popularity exploded this year partly from this video that garnered 39 million views — almost half of which came from mobile devices.
8.) Lindsey Stirling: Lindsey’s trademark dubstep violin styles created a lot of buzz this year — especially in the U.S., Germany and Poland. This video, which was shot by Lindsey’s fellow YouTube creator Devin Graham, has over 500,000 likes and 100,000 comments.
9.) Facebook Parenting: This video taught us not to mess with Dad. Bringing in 11 million views in one day, this video was the catalyst for an international discussion about parenting and Facebook.
10.) Stratos Highlights: This live stream of Felix Baumgartner’s free-fall from 128,000 feet shattered previous live stream records with 8 million concurrent views.
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