{"id":84918,"date":"2009-12-16T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-Most-Popular-YouTube-Videos-of-2009-129920.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:05:00","slug":"the-most-popular-youtube-videos-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84918","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular YouTube Videos of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/The-Most-Popular-YouTube-Videos-of-2009-2.png\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> YouTube is, by far, the largest video site on the planet so if you want to know what were the hottest videos of 2009, there&#8217;s no need to look any further. And since this was the biggest year for online video ever, with month after month of record-breaking audiences, there were some pretty big hits out there, most of them completely unexpected, showing that YouTube hasn&#8217;t lost its touch. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we&#8217;re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama&#8217;s inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected (&#8220;New Moon&#8221;), some surprising (Susan Boyle) &mdash; but all of them inspired, entertained and connected millions of people around the world via YouTube,&rdquo; Jamie Davidson, associate product manager at YouTube wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest video this year, without any shred of doubt was Susan Boyle&#8217;s performance at Britain&#8217;s Got Talent which went on to get more than 120 million views so far this year, easily overtaking any other popular video even from the previous years. A distant second came the David after Dentist video which was streamed 37 million times. This summer&#8217;s most talked-about video, the JK Wedding Entrance Dance, g&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-Most-Popular-YouTube-Videos-of-2009-129920.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is, by far, the largest video site on the planet so if you want to know what were the hottest videos of 2009, there&#8217;s no need to look any further. And since this was the biggest year for online video ever, with month after month of record-breaking audiences, there were some pretty big hits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}