{"id":84990,"date":"2016-01-26T10:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T08:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=84990"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:05:48","slug":"adele-breaks-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/adele-breaks-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele breaks the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was big news for British artist Adele this month as her single \u201c<strong>Hello<\/strong>\u201d became the fastest video ever to reach <strong>one billion views <\/strong>on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this meant bad news for the previous king of YouTube, Korean singer <em>Psy<\/em> and his creation  \u201cGangnam Style,\u201d which was the very first song to reach one billion views on the popular site. The catchy tune has now in fact reached over double that, which is not surprising as it was released nearly four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHello\u201d<\/strong> was first released back in October 2015, and was the first single from her much-awaited album <strong>25<\/strong>. The 27-year-old singer from London has been overwhelmed with the incredible success of her latest album, and the debut video managed to make the billion mark just <strong>88 days<\/strong> after its release.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t seen the video yet (slightly impossible), here it is.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t view the video? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it\u2019s nothing spectacular, and they even kept the costs down by using an old flip phone (from the 90s?. You\u2019d think after earning a whopping <strong>$75 million<\/strong> over her short career, she\u2019d at least fork out for an iPhone 4 at the very least. Let&#8217;s hope she was being ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was big news for British artist Adele this month as her single \u201cHello\u201d became the fastest video ever to reach one billion views on YouTube. Of course, this meant bad news for the previous king of YouTube, Korean singer Psy and his creation \u201cGangnam Style,\u201d which was the very first song to reach one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/adele-breaks-the-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adele breaks the internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-84990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329358,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84990\/revisions\/329358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84990"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=84990"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=84990"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=84990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}