Ranking 10 Most-Viewed YouTube Videos Of All Time
6. Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk Ft. Bruno Mars
Upload date: 19 November 2014
View count: 3,842,957,946
The biggest music video of 2014 remains a favourite 6 years later with views impressively nearing the 4 billion mark. The song itself was also a pop cultural phenomenon and was performed on multiple television shows including the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Saturday Night Live and the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. Additional shows such as Family Guy and Glee added it to their soundtracks and it was added to an advertisement for Skippy peanut butter.
Directed by Cameron Duddy and Bruno Mars, the music video depicts Mars and Mark Ronson sporting retro, late 1970s inspired clothing. The 2 dance down the street with the Hooligans and go through a variety of activities including having their shoes shined and their put into perm curlers.
The music video was praised as among the very best of its year and was nominated for various awards including Video of the Year, Best Direction, Best Collaboration, Best Male Video and Best Pop Video at the 2015 MTV Music Video Awards. In addition, it won Best Pop Video at the UK Music Video Awards and Video of the Year at the 2015 Soul Train Music Awards.