2. Bailando – 946 million
The 2014 song by Enrique Iglesias has not one, not two, but three versions: one in English, one in Portuguese, and one in Spanish. In an extremely savvy business move, the artist created songs that would intimately appeal to markets the world over.
The English version has a 136 million views, a testament to its relative lack of success in North America. The Portuguese version has even fewer views at 33 million. But the Spanish version has a whopping 946 million YouTube views. Taken together, these views give the song far more than 1 billion views. But the Spanish version alone only needs another cool 50 million to reach that star status, and given the proven success of the song, it can’t be too far away.
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