'Gangnam Style' broke YouTube with its 2 billion-plus play count

'Gangnam Style' broke YouTube with its 2 billion-plus play count
(Image credit: Facebook.com/Psy)

"Gangnam Style," the most-viewed video on YouTube, has acquired such a high view count that the site can no longer keep track of it.

"We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY," YouTube wrote in a statement on its Google Plus page. "'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times, we have to upgrade!"

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.