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Psy’s Gentleman hits 100 mn YouTube views

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New Delhi, April 18, 2013 -South Korean rapper Psy’s new video,Gentleman has crossed the 100 million views mark on YouTube.

The video for Gentleman has received 117.5 million hits, topping 100 million in record time since it was posted on Saturday.

The previous record was set by the video of Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle singing I Dreamed A Dream in the TV show, which received 100 million hits in just over a week in 2009.

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Gangnam Style, which holds the YouTube record for most views ever with more than 1.5 billion, made the corpulent Korean a global star and one of the best-known faces to come out of the growing K-pop music scene.

The video of Gentleman racked up more than 20 million hits in the first 24 hours after its release on Saturday night. That easily outstripped the 8 million views for Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend in its first 24 hours.The song was also climbing music charts around the world, hitting 8th in Britain and 7th in Australia, according to the Apple store’s iTunes ranking, and holding top place in most of Scandinavia. It ranked 21st for songs overall, compared with 90th place on Saturday before the video was released.

psy2_660_041513124823“He is good. I love his energy,” one woman commented on YouTube. Others said the video was hilarious and the sunglass-wearing 35-year-old’s dancing “smooth.”

Some were less complimentary, with a few saying the video was arrogant and “too sexual”. It shows Psy playing tricks on women such as splashing coffee in their faces and untying a bikini top.

“Meh. Gangnam Style was better,” one woman wrote.

Gangnam Style racked up digital sales of 3.59 million units in the United States and Canada last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS, 9th in the best-selling list. It was third on Amazon’s MP3 song bestseller list for 2012.
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