YouTube

Guns N’ Roses Lays Claim To Only Music Videos From The ’90s — And Now The ’80s — With 1 Billion Views

The eighties are still booming on YouTube.

Rock band Guns N’ Roses just made platform history with its black-and-white music video for “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” which is the first music video from the ‘80s to cross the billion-views threshold, Billboard reports. The clip sees the band simply performing the song and hanging out.

Guns N’ Roses remains a massive draw on YouTube. Their music video for “November Rain,” released in 1992, is also the only music video from the ‘90s to reach 1 billion views. It also previously held the record for the oldest music video to reach 1 billion views — until it was supplanted by Queen

’s “Bohemian Rhapsody, which premiered in 1975 and is widely considered to be one of the first music videos of all time. That clip saw a massive resurgence in the wake of the hit film Bohemian Rhapsody, the Rami Malek-starring biopic about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top Stories

Subscribe

Guns N’ Roses currently counts 6.7 million YouTube subscribers.

You can check out the video for “Sweet Child O’ Mine” below:

Share
Published by
Geoff Weiss

Recent Posts

Have you heard? “No influencers” in Nantucket, Prime becomes Slime, and a Steve Jobs PSA 10.

Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends,…

4 hours ago

Gamer lifestyle brand Razer acquires streamer platform StreamElements

After months of uncertainty, StreamElements has found a buyer. The company behind a popular streamer dashboard will…

6 hours ago

RFK Jr. has a YouTube cooking show centered around healthy eats

Yes, you read that right: The head of the Department of Health and Human Services…

7 hours ago

Sponcon spotlight: deviantART is getting YouTubers to hype its subscriptions

With our Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Reports, Tubefilter is always keeping an eye on which…

21 hours ago

Microdramas have hit their late-night parody era–but Jimmy Fallon and The Daily Show are putting serious production behind these spoofs

Microdramas have officially hit the "late-night parody" stage of their life cycle. The Tonight Show…

23 hours ago

Katie Feeney’s reality series is Xfinity’s entry point for the creator economy

What happens when you gather six college-aged creators in a shared house and recruit an…

1 day ago