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YouTube's Ten Biggest Videos Of 2016

YouTube's Ten Biggest Videos Of 2016

No surprises what's at number one.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

It's getting to the point now where lists are being released to promote the biggest things of the year.

There'll be the top ten songs, which will basically be a pile of shit with a few diamonds in it. There'll be the most controversial moments of 2016, which will be hard to narrow down given the amount of crap that's happened over the last 12 months - I reckon Donald Trump and Brexit have their one and two spots cemented though.

For now, though, we have YouTube's ten biggest videos of the year, and as we move further and further into the digital and social media age, it's a list we can all (kind of) appreciate.

Clinching the top spot of the sought after list was Adele and James Corden singing the former's hits in the latter's Range Rover for Carpool Karaoke. It doesn't come as a surprise as the segment of The Late Late Show became a viral phenomenon at the arse-end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016.

Since January, when this pitiful year was just starting, the pair have managed to amass 135million views on the video,giving it its rightful place of the biggest video of 2016.

Credit: CBS

In a worthy second place was a man who changed the Japanese pop music scene forever. Piko-Taro's instant classic, Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, often referred to as 'the oriental Bohemian Rhapsody', garnered enough views and attention to sit nicely behind Adele and Corden. It's odd, because we owe Justin Bieber a huge thanks for bestowing this video on us, because it was him who gave it the first real push.

Completing the top three was a video titled What's Inside a Rattlesnake Rattle?, by a channel called 'What's Inside?'. The video was majorly underwhelming as the answer to 'what's inside a rattlesnake's rattle?' is 'the square root of Jack shit'.

Nike's advert The Switch, which featured Cristiano Ronaldo, Grace VanderWaal, a 12-year-old contestant on America's Got Talent getting a golden buzzer, Dude Perfect's 'Water Bottle Flip Edition' and Channing Tatum performing with Beyoncé on Lip Sync Battle took up the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh places, respectively.

Credit: Spike/Comedy Central

Donald Trump's appearance on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver landed in eighth place, whereas Casey Neistat's video of a $21,000 first-class airplane seat was in ninth.

Cracking into the top ten, and deservedly so, was a video uploaded by Cabot Phillips, which showed two brothers convincing their sister there was a zombie apocalypse. Following their kid sister's wisdom teeth surgery they played fake news reports of zombies taking over their town - it was absolutely amazing.

It's been a half-decent year for viral videos, so at least we've got that, I guess.

Featured image credit: CBS/Cabot Phillips

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Topics: Adele, Channing Tatum, Beyonce, YouTube