Top 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube in 2025
We’ve rounded up the top 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube, as of January 2025. Warning, it’s exclusively music and children’s content.
Here we have the top 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube, topped by Baby Shark, with almost double the entire population of the Earth! Baby Shark became the most-viewed video on YouTube when it hit 7 billion views in November 2020, exceeding the then most-viewed video, Despacito. Fast forward just over a year, and Baby Shark hit 10 billion views in January 2022.
We last updated this list in July last year. Since then Wheels on the Bus by Cocomelon has climbed three places, from sixth to third.
All 10 of the most-viewed videos on YouTube have now exceeded 5 billion views!
Find the most-viewed music videos on YouTube here.
1. Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children
Baby Shark – Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories
15.53 billion views
2. Luis Fonsi – Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee
8.63 billion views
3. Wheels on the Bus | @CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs
7.02 billion views
4. Johny Johny Yes Papa 👶 THE BEST Song for Children | Kids Songs | LooLoo Kids
LooLoo Kids – Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Songs
7.00 billion views
5. Bath Song | @CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs
6.97 billion views
6. Wiz Khalifa – See You Again ft. Charlie Puth [Official Video] Furious 7 Soundtrack
6.54 billion views
7. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You (Official Music Video)
6.40 billion views
8. Phonics Song with TWO Words – A For Apple – ABC Alphabet Songs with Sounds for Children
ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs
6.24 billion views
9. Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk (Official Video) ft. Bruno Mars
5.45 billion views
10. PSY – GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/V
5.43 billion views
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