#YouTubeRewind: From Modi & Bear Grylls’s bromance to ‘Senorita’, here’s everything India loved watching in 2019

Over the last decade, #YouTubeRewind has become the one thing all the creators and fans look forward to with bated breath. With running gags, plenty of pop culture references and cameos by our favourite YouTubers, ‘Rewind’ sums up the year pretty well.

This year’s #YouTubeRewind celebrated the most liked and viewed videos on the platform, globally. But Indians couldn’t help but wonder, which videos fared well in their own country.

If you too have the same line of thought, fret not because we have got you covered. We have prepared a list of videos that garnered maximum views onand ended up hogging the limelight for the better part of the year.


YouTube Top Trending Videos in India

The ‘Top Trending YouTube Videos’ has always been a diverse segment, with videos from a diverse background of creators making it to the top of the list and this year was no exception. Topping the list was the video by channel ‘Khandeshi Movies’ titled ‘Chotu Ke Golgappe’ which garnered a whopping 701 million views.

Following closely was the dance choreography video by ‘Team Naach’, recreating the steps of the hit number ‘O Saki Saki’ from the film ‘Batla House’, clocking in 42 million views.

Also, making it to the list was the much-talked about appearance of PM Modi on ‘Man vs Wild’ with Bear Grylls. The sneak peek of the interaction, uploaded by ‘India’, amassed 24 million views.

PM Modi’s appearance on ‘Man vs Wild’ with Bear Grylls was highly anticipated and much-talked about.

Here’s the complete list:

  • Khandeshi Movies – Chotu Ke Golgappe
  • Jaipur The Pink City – New Arabic Mehndi Design by Sonia Goyal
  • Team Naach – O Saki Saki | Batla House
  • The Motor Mouth – When Kapil Sharma met Doraemon voice artist
  • Satish Tech – How To Make Helicopter Matchbox Helicopter Toy DIY
  • Cricket.com – Kohli, Dhoni too good for the Aussies | Second Gillette ODI
  • Discovery Channel India – Exclusive Sneak Peek| Man VS Wild with Bear Grylls and PM Modi
  • Sarpmitra Akash Jadhav – Dangerous Rescue Operation | Rescue indian cobra snake in the well from Ahmednagar maharashtra
  • Experiment King – Chewing gum vs Hot oil experiment

YouTube Top Trending Music Videos in India

The dance choreography video by ‘Team Naach’, recreating the steps of the hit number ‘O Saki Saki’ from the film ‘Batla House’, clocked in 42 million views.

This category is all about the hit musical numbers India grooved to, this year. Featured on the list, was the song ‘Coca Cola’, a peppy number sung by Tony Kakkar and Neha Kakkar from the film ‘Luka Chuppi’ starring Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon, at 390 million views.

Making his second appearance on the list, Tony Kakkar clocked over 352 million views for another hit song, ‘Dheeme Dheeme’ which was also featured in the film ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’.

Garnering 308 million views was the song ‘Pachtaoge’ featuring Nora Fatehi and Vicky Kaushal sung by Arijit Singh which took the music charts by storm this year.

Here’s the complete list:

  • Rowdy Baby – Dhanush, Sai Pallavi | Yuvan Shankar Raja | Maari 2
  • Vaaste – Dhvani Bhanushali, Tanishk Bagchi | Nikhil D | Bhushan Kumar | Radhika Rao, Vinay Sapru
  • She Don’t Know – Millind Gaba Song | Shabby
  • Coca Cola – Kartik A, Kriti S | Tony Kakkar | Tanishk Bagchi | Neha Kakkar | Luka Chuppi
  • COKA – Sukh-E Muzical Doctorz | Alankrita Sahai | Jaani | Arvindr Khaira
  • Ve Maahi – Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra | Arijit Singh & Asees Kaur | Tanishk Bagchi | Kesari
  • Dheeme Dheeme – Tony Kakkar ft. Neha Sharma
  • Lehanga – Jass Manak, Satti Dhillon
  • Pachtaoge – Arijit Singh | Vicky Kaushal, Nora Fatehi |Jaani, B Praak, Arvindr Khaira | Bhushan Kumar
  • O SAKI SAKI – Nora Fatehi, Tanishk B, Neha K, Tulsi K, B Praak, Vishal-Shekhar | Batla House

YouTube Most-Viewed Music Videos Globally

‘Señorita’, featuring the steamy chemistry between Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, clocked in with 823 million views at number 6.

This category is all about the hits that the world loved and adored throughout the year. This year, the list was dominated by hit Spanish numbers. Debuting at number 2 was the catchy song ‘Con Altura’ by Spanish bombshell Rosalia, singer J Balvin and musician El Guincho with 1.6 billion views.

The song ‘Bad Guy’ by American sensation Billie Eilish, which was on everyone’s mind this year, was at number 9 on the list with 673 million views.

And, of course, the music video for the song ‘Señorita’, featuring the steamy chemistry between Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, clocked in with 823 million views at number 6.

Here’s the complete list:

  • Daddy Yankee & Snow – Con Calma (Video Official)
  • ROSALÍA, J Balvin – Con Altura (Official Video) ft. El Guincho
  • Anuel AA, KAROL G – Secreto
  • Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Ozuna & J Balvin – China (Video Oficial)
  • Jhay Cortez, J. Balvin, Bad Bunny – No Me Conoce (Remix)
  • Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello – Señorita
  • Maari 2 – Rowdy Baby (Video Song) | Dhanush, Sai Pallavi | Yuvan Shankar Raja | Balaji Mohan
  • BLACKPINK – ‘Kill This Love’ M/V
  • Billie Eilish – bad guy
  • Ariana Grande – 7 rings

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