What's going on? The 4 Non Blondes?

[CD Boogie]

Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine' Becomes First '80s Music Video to Hit 1 Billion YouTube Views

"Sweet Child O' Mine," Guns N Roses' smash single from 1987, has joined YouTube's billion views club. It is not only the first music video from the '80s to pass that landmark, the band is now the top artist of both the '80s and '90s on the platform

The band's top '90s song is "November Rain," which is also the first and only music video from its decade to pass the billion-views mark.

1990s

• Guns N' Roses – November Rain – 1.2B
  
  
• Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video) – 968M
  
  
• The Cranberries – Zombie (Official Music Video) – 962M
  
  
• Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You (Official Music Video) – 859M
  
  
• 4 Non Blondes – What's Up (Official Video) – 765M

Uh, WTF? I mean, fine song and all. Great for a sing-along. But holy heck, that is some rarefied air for that song to be in. If you'd given me 100 guesses, I would not have come up with that as a top 5 for the decade. Probably wouldn't have thought of Zombie, either.

Wasn't that a one-hit wonder, too, for the 4 Non Blondes?

 

[DanOregon]

They gotta play something in Gitmo.

My first thought might have been popular with meme makers - my other thought is that they only have the one version of the song on YouTube so all the plays are from the same entry instead of scattered around 12 or 13 submissions of the same song.

 

[CD Boogie]

They gotta play something in Gitmo.

My first thought might have been popular with meme makers - my other thought is that they only have the one version of the song on YouTube so all the plays are from the same entry instead of scattered around 12 or 13 submissions of the same song.

Dark. I love it.

 

[Twirling Time]

Minor point of order: Sweet Child o' Mine may have been cut in 1987, but it didn't chart until the summer of 1988 and didn't peak until fall.

 

[swingline]

Minor point of order: Sweet Child o' Mine may have been cut in 1987, but it didn't chart until the summer of 1988 and didn't peak until fall.

Beep beep beep: Nerd alert. Repeat, nerd alert.

I keed.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

"What's Up" was a massive hit in the rest of the world. Much bigger than it was here.

Still surprising that it came in top 5, but that's why.