Viral songs: Response chain

Cases
25
Median Spread Score
53
Most started on
YouTube64%
First post to peak
16 days

By mechanic

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I'm Not Racist

66
Joyner Lucas - I'm Not Racist

155.7M views

Adele: Hello

62
Adele - Hello (Official Music Video)

47.5M streams

Peaches

62
Bowser - Peaches (Official Music Video) | The Super Mario Bros. Movie

24M views

good 4 u

61
Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (Official Video)

3.8M impressions

PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)

61
PPAP（Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen Official）ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン／PIKOTARO(ピコ太郎)

Peaked at #1

drivers license

60
Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license (Official Video)

8.1M impressions

All Eyes on Me

59
Cover artwork for All Eyes On Me (Song Only).

2.5K sold

Golden by HUNTR/X

59
time-breakthrough-of-the-year-2025-kpop-demon-hunters-06

8.4M impressions

Killshot

58
KILLSHOT [Official Audio]

38K sold

Pasoori

56
Coke Studio | Season 14 | Pasoori | Ali Sethi x Shae Gill

1B views

Formation

54
Formation (Explicit)

16.3M impressions

Hotline Bling (music video)

54
Hotline Bling on Apple Music

1.6M derivatives

Despacito

53
Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee

347K sold

Chocolate Rain

52
"Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday

109M views

Berghain

52
ROSALÍA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. Björk & Yves Tumor

10M views

Miley Cyrus: Wrecking Ball video

51
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Official Video)

Bad Guy

47
Billie Eilish - bad guy

93M impressions

Wellerman ShantyTok

46
The Wellerman. #seashanty #sea #shanty #viral #singing #acoustic #pirate #new #original #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #singer #scottishsinger #scottish

9.8M views

Pharrell Williams: Happy

43
ABC's "Good Morning America" - 2014

1M sold

Why This Kolaveri Di: the recording-room video

36

25M views

The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

36
Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [Official music video HD]

Peaked at #6

Scarface's Tiny Desk Concert

35
Scarface: Tiny Desk Concert

1.9M impressions

Mixue theme-song remix wave

33
Snow King theme-song milestone illustration from Mixue’s official retrospective; not a verified frame of the 2021 seed video

15M views

Call Me Maybe

29
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen on Apple Music

12.5M sold

Somebody That I Used to Know

23
Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) by Gotye on Apple Music

2.5M sold

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