K-Pop YouTube Views Triple in Past Year Thanks to 'Gangnam Style'

YouTube views of Korean artists have surged in the year since "Gangnam Style" debuted last July, the video-streaming service announced Monday.

Data compiled by YouTube indicates that videos featuring K-pop — short for "Korean pop" — have tripled. The graph, below, shows a large spike in views after "Gangnam Style" was posted online. It also reveals a smaller — though still sizeable — jump after Psy released his follow-up, "Gentleman," in April. Boasting more than 1.7 billion views, "Gangnam Style" holds the title of most-viewed YouTube video of all time; the electronic-dance song hit 1 billion views last December. For its part, "Gentleman" has an impressive 481 million views