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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.

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Guns N’ Roses currently counts 6.7 million YouTube subscribers.

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

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Geoff Weiss

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