#YouTube #MusicVideo #MajorLazer #TaylorSwift #JustinBieber #LuisFonsi You might think viral clips rule YouTube -- the " Keyboard Cats " and " Charlie bit my fingers " of the world. Sure, they spread across the web like wildfire, dominating your feeds and hijacking your attention. But earworm-y pop songs? Those hits you end up wanting to wipe from your memory forever? Their visuals are the real Scrooge McDucks of the site, gleefully swimming in millions upon millions upon millions of Vevo views. In fact, Psy's "Gangnam Style," long-reigning king until recently , became so pervasive in 2014 it forced YouTube to rewrite the code for its play counter . Now the site boasts an expanded metric for chronic popularity and an ever-changing batch of insanely popular music vids. Read on as we (re-)watch the current top 10*. *View counts are estimates from August 2017. Totals and ranks will change, and we will continue to update