"
Despacito" by
Luis Fonsi (left) featuring
Daddy Yankee (right) has been the most liked video on YouTube since July 2017, with over 52 million likes as of January 2024[update].
This list of most-liked YouTube videos contains the top 30 videos with the most likes of all time, taken directly from the video page. The American
video platformYouTube implemented a
like and dislike button on these pages in March 2010, part of a major redesign of the site. This served as a replacement for their
five-star rating system;[1] YouTube's designers found the previous system ineffective because the options to rate a video between two and four stars were rarely selected.[2]
The music video for
LMFAO's song "
Party Rock Anthem" stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for
Psy's "
Gangnam Style" surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes. Following this accomplishment, "Gangnam Style" entered the Guinness World Records book as the most-liked video on YouTube and on the Internet as of 2012. Psy's video remained the most-liked on YouTube for nearly four years until August 27, 2016, when
Wiz Khalifa's "
See You Again" featuring
Charlie Puth surpassed it with 11.21 million likes. Less than a year later, on July 25, 2017,
Luis Fonsi's "
Despacito" featuring
Daddy Yankee claimed the top spot with 16.01 million likes. Despacito became the first YouTube video to reach 50 million likes on October 23, 2022.
MrBeast holds the record for the most liked non-music video with "Would you fly to Paris for a Baguette". This video stands at 48 million likes as of May 2024. It is also the most-liked video uploaded under the
YouTube Shorts banner.
The most liked non-music and non-short video is also held by
MrBeast, with his video called "Make This Video The Most Liked Video On Youtube" which has 30 million likes as of May 2024. He has held this record since May 2019, after surpassing
PewDiePie's most liked non-music video.
Top videos
The following table lists the top 30 most-liked videos on
YouTube, with each total rounded to the nearest ten thousand likes, uploader, and upload date.[A]
^Some videos may not be available worldwide due to YouTube's
regional restrictions in certain countries.
^"Despacito" surpassed "See You Again" as the most-liked video on July 25, 2017; first video to reach 20 million likes on August 30, 2017;[4] first video to reach 30 million likes on September 29, 2018; first video to reach 40 million likes on September 24, 2020; and the first video to reach 50 million likes on October 23, 2022.
^"Would you fly to Paris for a Baguette?" became the most liked non-music video on YouTube after surpassing "OMG best teacher" on June 7, 2023.
^"See You Again" surpassed "Gangnam Style" as the most-liked video on August 27, 2016; second video to reach 30 million likes on September 12, 2020.
^"Baby Shark Dance" is the fifth video to reach 20 million likes on August 31, 2020; fourth video to reach 30 million likes on August 21, 2021; third video to reach 40 million likes on April 19, 2023.
^"Dynamite" is the sixth and fastest video to reach 20 million likes, doing so on October 23, 2020, two months after release;[11] third and fastest video to reach 30 million likes on August 11, 2021, less than a year after release.[12]
^"Shape of You" is the third video to reach 20 million likes on June 12, 2019.
^"How Zach King Gets Away With Doing Graffiti" is the fourteenth video to reach 20 million likes on October 24, 2021.
^"Boy with Luv" is the eighth video to reach 20 million likes on December 2, 2020.
^"Gangnam Style" surpassed "Party Rock Anthem" as the most-liked video on September 13, 2012;[24] first video to reach 10 million likes on November 3, 2015;[25] seventh video to reach 20 million likes on December 7, 2020.
^"Faded" is the fourth video to reach 20 million likes on July 3, 2020.
^"Lovely" is the fifteenth video to reach 20 million likes on October 25, 2021.
^"Kill This Love" is the eleventh video to reach 20 million likes on July 25, 2021.
^"Alone" is the ninth video to reach 20 million likes on March 31, 2021.
^"Baby" surpassed "Evolution of Dance" as the most-liked video on July 6, 2011.[35][36] It is the sixteenth video to reach 20 million likes on December 23, 2021.
^"How You Like That" is the tenth video to reach 20 million likes on May 2, 2021.
^"Despacito" became the first video to reach 20 million likes on August 30, 2017;[4] first video to reach 30 million likes on September 29, 2018; first video to reach 40 million likes on September 24, 2020; and the first video to reach 50 million likes on October 23, 2022.
^"Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach 2 million likes on September 18, 2012,[42] 5 million likes on November 11, 2012,[43] and 10 million likes on November 3, 2015.[25]
^"Kony 2012" was a viral campaign by Invisible Children that aimed to raise support for
Joseph Kony's arrest. In 12 days it became YouTube's most-liked video, only to be surpassed by "Party Rock Anthem" 18 days later.
^"Party Rock Anthem" was the first video to reach 1 million likes on November 15, 2011.[49][50][51] It is the only video on this list to hold the No. 1 spot on more than one occasion.
^"Evolution of Dance" was YouTube's first video to hold the No. 1 spot on this list. When the video was uploaded in 2006, YouTube still used the 5-star rating system. On March 31, 2010, when the rating system changed to
likes and dislikes, all previous 1 star ratings were converted to dislikes and all 5 star ratings were converted to likes. This automatically made "Evolution of Dance" YouTube's most-liked video at the time.