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  • April 23, 2025
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Nina Nebo
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Which was the first music video on YouTube?

2005. On May 2, Queens Of The Stone Age's This Lullaby becomes the first song to appear on YouTube. It soundtracks a home-made video titled Vernal Lullaby by a fan named Adam Quirk.

 

 

What is the first official music video?
Exploring the History of the First Music Videos The general consensus online is that Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965) was the first music video in the way that we would classify them today. The video consists of Dylan standing in an alleyway, showing cue cards of the lyrics as life happens behind him.

 

 

First music video on YouTube to reach 1 billion views

Billion-View Club. An early metric of a video's popularity was the so-called Billion-View Club, denoting videos which had succeeded in reaching over 1 billion views since their initial upload. In December 2012, "Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach one billion views.

 

 

Who was the first artist to reach 1 billion streams 2025?
Kendrick Lamar Becomes First Artist Of 2025 To Reach A Billion Streams. Kendrick Lamar keeps pushing the bar as Chart Data reported the new statistic via X, formerly Twitter.

 

First video on YouTube ever

"Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube. His high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky, recorded it.

 

 

 

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