List of most-viewed online videos in the first 24 hours

This list contains the top 20 online videos that received the most views within 24 hours of release. It also contains a list of the top 20 online trailers; the trailer views are generated from different online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Top videos

Film trailers are excluded here. Out of the top twenty most-viewed videos, three artists have more than one video listed: BTS has six entries, Blackpink has four and Taylor Swift has two.

In September 2019, YouTube changed their policy on video view counts and excluded paid advertising views from future 24-hour statistics.

Rank	Title[lower-alpha 1]	Uploader / artist[lower-alpha 2]	Platform	Views[lower-alpha 3] (millions)	Release date	Ref(s)
1.	Rings Prank^†	Paramount Pictures	Facebook	200.0	January 23, 2017	[1]
2.	"Dynamite"	BTS	YouTube	101.1	August 21, 2020	[2]
3.	"How You Like That"	Blackpink	YouTube	86.3	June 26, 2020	[3]
4.	"Ice Cream"	Blackpink and Selena Gomez	YouTube	79.0	August 28, 2020	[4]
5.	"Boy with Luv"	BTS (feat. Halsey)	YouTube	74.6	April 12, 2019	[5]
6.	"Life Goes On"	BTS	YouTube	71.6	November 20, 2020	[6]
7.	"Me!"	Taylor Swift (feat. Brendon Urie)	YouTube	65.2	April 26, 2019	[7]
8.	"Lovesick Girls"	Blackpink	YouTube	61.4	October 2, 2020	[8]
9.	"Kill This Love"	Blackpink	YouTube	56.7	April 5, 2019	[9]
10.	"Thank U, Next"	Ariana Grande	YouTube	55.4	November 30, 2018	[10]
11.	Chewbacca Mask Lady^†	Candace Payne	Facebook	50.0	May 19, 2016	[11]
12.	"On" (Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima)	BTS	YouTube	46.5	February 21, 2020	[12]
13.	"Idol"	BTS	YouTube	45.9	August 24, 2018	[13][14]
14.	"On"	BTS	YouTube	43.8	February 28, 2020	[15]
15.	"Look What You Made Me Do"	Taylor Swift	YouTube	43.2	August 27, 2017	[16][17]
16.	"Fancy"	Twice	YouTube	42.1	April 22, 2019	[18]
17.	Massive Pillow Chair^†	Insider Design	Facebook	42.0	November 3, 2016	[19]
18.	YouTube Rewind: The Ultimate 2016 Challenge^†	YouTube Spotlight	YouTube	38.9	December 7, 2016	[20]
	"Gooba"	6ix9ine	YouTube	38.9	May 8, 2020	[21]
19.	"Killshot"	Eminem	YouTube	38.1	September 14, 2018	[22]
20.	"Slowly Slowly"	Guru Randhawa (feat. Pitbull)	YouTube	38.0	April 19, 2019	[23]
As of November 25, 2020

1. A dagger (^†) indicates the upload is not a music video.
2. For music videos
3. The number of worldwide views accumulated in the video's first 24 hours.

Controversy

In July 2019, there was some controversy regarding the legitimacy of YouTube's 24 hour records, after Indian hip hop rapper Badshah's song "Paagal" received 75 million views in 24 hours, and surpassed the viewership record of "Boy with Luv" by K-pop group BTS and American singer Halsey. YouTube did not congratulate Badshah like it did for previous record holders and later released a statement that Badshah's record label, Sony Music India, had purchased advertisements from Google and YouTube that embedded the video or directed fans to it in some way. It also emerged that this is a common practice in the global music industry, and similar methods had also been used by the record labels of previous record holders such as Ariana Grande, Blackpink and Taylor Swift, thus casting doubt on some of the past 24-hour viewership records on YouTube.[24][25] In September 2019, YouTube announced that their charts will no longer include paid advertising views.[26]

Top trailers

Rank	Film	Type	Distributor	Views[lower-alpha 1] (millions)	Release date	Ref.
1.	Avengers: Endgame	Official Trailer #1	Walt Disney Studios	289.0	December 7, 2018	[27]
2.	Avengers: Endgame	Official Trailer #2	Walt Disney Studios	268.0	March 14, 2019	[28]
3.	Avengers: Infinity War	Official Trailer #1	Walt Disney Studios	230.0	November 29, 2017	[29]
4.	The Lion King	Teaser Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	224.6	November 22, 2018	[30]
5.	It	Teaser Trailer	Warner Bros. Pictures	197.0	March 29, 2017	[31]
6.	Avengers: Infinity War	Official Trailer #2	Walt Disney Studios	179.0	March 16, 2018	[32]
7.	Mulan	Official Teaser	Walt Disney Studios	175.1	July 7, 2019	[33]
8.	The Lion King	Official Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	174.0	April 10, 2019	[34]
9.	F9	Official Trailer	Universal Pictures	151.0	January 31, 2020	[35]
10.	The Fate of the Furious	Official Trailer #1	Universal Pictures	139.0	December 11, 2016	[31]
11.	Thor: Ragnarok	Teaser Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	136.0	April 10, 2017	[36]
12.	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Official Trailer	Sony Pictures	135.2	May 6, 2019	[37]
13.	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Teaser Trailer	Sony Pictures	130.0	January 15, 2019	[38]
14.	Beauty and the Beast	Official Trailer #1	Walt Disney Studios	127.6	November 14, 2016	[39]
15.	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Official Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	120.1	October 9, 2017	[40]
16.	Frozen II	Teaser Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	116.4	February 13, 2019	[41]
17.	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Official Trailer #1	Sony Pictures	116.0	December 8, 2016	[38]
18.	Fifty Shades Darker	Official Trailer #1	Universal Pictures	114.0	September 13, 2016	[42]
19.	Incredibles 2	Teaser Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	113.6	November 18, 2017	[43]
20.	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Official Trailer	Walt Disney Studios	112.0	October 19, 2015	[44]
As of September 19, 2020

1. The number of worldwide views accumulated in the video's first 24 hours.

See also

• List of most-viewed YouTube videos
• List of viral videos

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