"Bad and Boujee（英语：Bad and Boujee）" – 饒舌團體Migos (米戈斯) 的歌曲。当人们在“Raindrop, droptop”这一行上进行编辑时，这首歌成为了一个迷因。[9]使該影片的观看次数超过 10 亿次。[10] Takeoff's response to being left off the track spawned other memes due to interviewers not being able to hear him.[11][12]
"Badgers" — A viral song and video by MrWeebl featuring badgers jumping up and down accompanied with catchy lyrics.[86] The dancing badgers helped Picking's website Weebl's Stuff win a People's Choice award from users of Yahoo! in the UK.[87]
"Bed Intruder Song" – A remix by the Gregory Brothers of a televised news interview of Antoine Dodson, the brother of a victim of a home invasion and attempted assault. The music video became a mainstream success, reaching the Billboard Hot 100, and became the most watched YouTube video of 2010.[88][89] The video also coined the phrase "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife," that later became a meme.
"Chacarron Macarron" - Song by Panamanian artists Rodney Clark (El Chombo) and Andres de la Cruz (also known as Andy's Val Gourmet). It is a reworking of the original version from 2003 by Andy's Val Gourmet, who is credited as 'Andy's Val' on the release.[94] The song gained attention online when the chorus was used on a YTMND page by the name of "Ualuealuealeuale" which was created sometime in late 2005. Chacarron Macarron became viral on the Internet owing to its nonsensical lyrics and odd music video.[95][96]
"Chinese Food" - A song and music video by Alison Gold recorded with the controversial ARK Music Factory, the same company behind Rebecca Black's viral song "Friday". The song was called "The New Friday" as well as being called racist.[97]
"Chocolate Rain" – A song and music video written and performed by Tay Zonday (also known as Adam Nyerere Bahner). After being posted on YouTube on 22 April 2007, the song quickly became a popular viral video. By December 2009, the video had received over 40 million views.[98][99] As of October 2018, the song has over 119 million views.[100]
"Congratulations" - A song by Swedish YouTuber Pewdiepie, Swedish singer/musician Roomie and English musician Boyinaband.[101][102][103] The single was self-released on 31 March 2019 with an accompanying music video on YouTube as a response to T-Series surpassing PewDiePie as the most subscribed channel on YouTube. The music video is banned on YouTube India.[104][105][106]
"Crab Rave" – A song and music video written and animated by Irish DJ and music producer Eoin O'Broin (known as his stage name Noisestorm).[107] Although the song was initially released as an April Fool's Day joke for the Canadian record label Monstercat, it soon gained popularity because of the music video featuring thousands of computer-animated dancing crabs.[108] The song peaked at number 32 in the "Hot Dance/Electronic Songs" category in the Billboard charts, surpassed over 1 million (U.S) online streams in the week ending November 22, 2018, and gained over 50 million views on the "Monstercat: Instinct" YouTube channel.[109][110]
"Firework" - Katy PerryJodi DiPiazzaduet" -A duet from the television special Night of Too Many Stars, it received 4 Million views in the first 4 days[116] and was the most viral video on YouTube for a short period of time.[117]
"Friday" – A 2011 music video sung by 13-year-old Rebecca Black, partially funded by her mother, which received over 200 million views on YouTube[118] and spread in popularity through social media services.[119]
"Gokuraku Jodo" – A J-pop song by Japanese pop duo Garnidelia. The song was released on July 28, 2016 accompanied with a dance music video. It spread to the Chinese video website Bilibili and quickly became viral in China, leading to various spoofs and mimicking dances.[120][121] As of 27 June 2020, the video received 63 million hits on YouTube.
"Gwiyomi" – A K-pop single by the South Korean indie musician Hari. The song was released on 18 February 2013 and is based on an Internet meme known as the Gwiyomi Player, which was invented in October 2012 by the K-pop idol Jung Il Hoon and has inspired many similar versions uploaded onto the Internet by Asian netizens.[122][123]
"It's Everyday Bro" – A song by actor and YouTube personality Jake Paul which went viral due to a line by Nick Crompton which stated England was a city.[124] The video accumulated over 216 million views[125] and has become the third most disliked YouTube video.
"Lolly Bomb" - An official music video by Russian rave band Little Big. It featured the fictional love story of Howard X, an impersonator of Kim Jong-Un, where he fell in love with a missile.[126] The music video has amassed over 122 million views on YouTube.[127]
"Mine" - A viral song and meme by Bazzi. The video created the meme "You so fuckin' precious when you smile" from a lyric in the song.[128][129][130] The song also peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100[131] and the music video has over 130 million views on YouTube.[132]
"Toy" - Israeli singer Netta Barzilai won 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Toy. The song has become viral, it was played on many European radio stations and it's currently the most watched video on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.[133]
"One Pound Fish" – A sales pitch song written and sung by Muhammad Shahid Nazir, a fish stall vendor in London, that became a viral hit and led to Nazir getting a recording contract.[139]
"Pants on the Ground" – First sung by "General" Larry Platt during the season 9 auditions of American Idol in Atlanta, Georgia, on 13 January 2010. Within one week, the video was seen by approximately 5 million on YouTube, had over 1 million fans on Facebook, and was repeated on television by Jimmy Fallon and Brett Favre.[140]
"Rappin' For Jesus" – A song by Pastor & Mrs. Jim Colerick. The video was made to promote a Christian youth outreach program. The video features Pastor & Mrs. Colerick rapping about how to be a Christian. The video went viral because of the line "That's cause Jesus Christ is my n**ga" which many took as a racial slur. Due to this and the strange nature of the video, it gained over 47 million views.[141]
"Red Solo Cup" – Toby Keith's recording of a drinking song devoted to the Solo disposable cup became a viral hit, with the video logging over 49 million views on YouTube and the song eventually becoming Keith's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100.[142][143]
"Shia LaBeouf Live" – A song by singer-songwriter Rob Cantor that depicts Shia LaBeouf as a cannibal who kills people for sport. Due to the ridiculous manner of the song the song went viral and has accumulated over 57 million views.[144]
"United Breaks Guitars" – A video by the band Sons of Maxwell, recounting how United Airlines broke a guitar belonging to band member Dave Carroll. The video reached 11 million views, was named one of the top ten of 2009,[145] and created speculation that it had caused a $180 million drop in the airline's stock value.[146]
"What What (In the Butt)" – A viral music video set to a song about anal sex by gay recording artist Samwell. The video was posted on Valentine's Day 2007, and two weeks later had already been viewed 500,000 times.[147] It was subsequently parodied on the South Park episode, "Canada on Strike", which poked fun at several other Internet memes and personalities.
"Hey" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） – In 2005 two 20yo Israeli film school students Tasha and Disha filmed their fun dance and lip-sych to the song Pixies released as a track on album Doolittle in 1989. One of the first truly viral YouTube videos, viewed over 34 million times.[153][154] At a result of a viral success girls met the Pixies （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） at the 2014 and the group did the video clip （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） to a new song with now 30yo "youtube sensation girls" as a main characters for a video.
"Howard The Alien" - A green screen video of an alien dancing to Money Longer by Lil Uzi Vert. The original green screen video was uploaded to YouTube by the "3D Animation Land" channel in December 2017. It began gaining attention when an iFunny post combined the animation with Money Longer with the caption "imagine having sleep paralysis and seeing this as the foot of bed just fuckin breakin it down and you cant do anything about it like you hear the music in the back and everything bruh."[155][156]
"I Dreamed a Dream" by Susan Boyle - In 2009, Boyle, an unknown singer, 47 at the time, auditioned for Britain's Got Talent with the song surprising the jury, the public and the world with her interpretation. The programme received high ratings and Boyle's performance was quickly added to sites such as YouTube, where millions of people viewed it in the first month alone.[157][158]
"The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody" – A 2009 music video featuring The Muppets performing a modified version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". The video received over seven million hits within its first week of release on YouTube, and by 2012, it had earned over 25 million hits. The video won the "Viral Video" category in the 14th Annual Webby Awards.[159]
"Pop Culture" – A 2011 YouTube video of a live mash-up by the musician Hugo Pierre Leclercq aka "Madeon", aged 17 at the time, using a Novation touchpad to mix samples from 39 different songs. The video went viral within a few days of being posted, and led to Leclercq's fame in the electronica music genre.[161][162]
"Space Oddity" by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield - Performed and recorded during a space mission on Soyuz TMA-07M. The cover of the famous David Bowie song is set in zero gravity against spectacular views of Earth with Hadfield singing and playing the guitar. The video also generated a great deal of media exposure.[167]
"Xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao" — A selfie video of a bald Chinese man singing the chorus verse of Fei Yu-ching's song Yi jian mei in a snowy background, first uploaded to Kuaishou in January 2020, was shared to Western social media, and quickly became viral on TikTok and Spotify by May 2020, leading to various covers and spoofs.[174]
Mandatory Fun album and the #8days8videos campaign – A viral marketing campaign by comedy singer/songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic to promote his 2014 album Mandatory Fun by releasing eight videos for the new album over eight consecutive days across different streaming providers. The Internet-aided approach was considered very successful, leading to the album to become Yankovic's first number one hit in his 32-year career and became the first comedy album to hit Number 1 on the Billboard charts in over 50 years.[177][178][179]
Beat Energy Gap - a 2017 advertisement originally produced by Nestlé Philippines to promote the product, MILO, with actor James Reid as the endorser.[180][181] The success of the advertisement and the song's catchy lyrics and upbeat theme[182] led many internet users to make parodies featuring the song. One notable example of this is remixing K-pop videos to the song.[183]
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" - Debut single by American rapper Soulja Boy and is accompanied by the "Soulja Boy dance". The song is recognized by its looping steel drum riff. The song also peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[184] As of February 2018, the video has over 330 million views on YouTube.
"STOOPID (6ix9ine)" - Single by American rapper 6ix9ine and is accompanied by the "STOOPID dance". The song ended up being used in many memes, and also became into a viral dance challenge on TikTok.
Dame Tu Cosita - A viral dance song made by Panamanian rapper El Chombo that originated on social media platform Musical.ly. The video features a green alien dancing.[185] It is accompanied with the #DameTuCosita challenge, which features people trying to recreate the dance.[186]
Ghetto Kids of Uganda dancing "Sitya Loss" - A viral song of Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo who featured the four Ugandan boys Alex Ssempijja, Fred and Isaac Tumusiime, Bashir Lubega and the girl Patricia Nabakooza dancing improvised moves in a competitive manner to his song. The video was made by Big Talent Entertainment and JahLive Films, and was directed by Mugerwa Frank.[189]
Hampster Dance – A page filled with hamsters dancing, linking to other animated pages. It spawned a fictional band complete with its own CD album release.[190]
Harlem Shake – A video based on Harlem shake dance, originally created by YouTube personality Filthy Frank and using an electronica version of the song by Baauer. In such videos, one person is dancing or acting strange among a room full of others going about routine business, until after the drop and a video cut, everyone starts dancing or acting strangely. The attempts to recreate the dance has led to a viral spread on YouTube.[191][192]
In My Feelings — A 2018 song by Drake from his recent studio album. The song went viral thanks to the "In My Feelings Challenge" (Also known as the Do The Shiggy Challenge). The challenge was replicated by many celebrities, such as football player Odell Beckham Jr., actor Will Smith, hosts Kelly & Ryan from the talk show Live with Kelly and Ryan and many others.[197][198][199][200][201] The popularity of the dance challenge led to the song peaking on top of the Billboard Hot 100.[202]
Passinho do Romano - The dance was born in the east of São Paulo, Brazil, known initially by Passinho do Romano. Because it was created in Jardim Romano in the region of Itaim Paulista. A dance that consists basically of light steps, with soft uses of heels, free arms with break, dubstep, robot steps and funk itself gained strength in the community and quickly became popular.[209]
Rolex - Viral song made by duo Ayo & Teo. The song is accompanied with the #RolexChallenge, which features people trying to replicate the dance.[210][211] The song peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100,[212] and has over 350 million views.[213]
Scooby Doo Papa — A viral song and dance video made by New YorkDJDJ Kass. Many people have tried to recreate the dance on social media.[214][215] The song also peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot Latin chart.[216]
"Skibidi" – A song and viral music video by Russian rave band Little Big. The release sparked a dance craze in part to the "Skibidi Challenge" issued by the band.[217] The video went viral days after release, gaining 28 million views in 2 weeks.[218]
Anime Music Videos/MADs – A staple of anime conventions both in Japan and Western countries, these fan-made videos take footage from other anime works and re-edit them in separate order, addition of new soundtracks (including to full-length songs), and other manipulations such as lip-syncing characters to lyrics; with the propagation of the Internet and popularity of anime in the United States in 2003, this type of user-created content developed, and extend to include footage from other works including video games and Western animation.[222][223]
80's remix – A series of videos where contemporary pop music is reinterpreted as songs released during the 1980s.[224][225]
Sergey Stepanov, aka Epic Sax Guy – A Moldovan musician who quickly gained Internet attention after performing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as part of the SunStroke Project. The performance of Stepanov miming a saxophone solo of Moldova's entry[226] has been remixed and looped for ten hours. The group have embraced the Internet attention and has mentioned 'Epic Sax Guy' in some of their singles, including a single called 'Epic Sax'. In the 2017 contest, SunStroke Project returned with Stepanov, who later played the signature riff live during an interview.[227]
Hurra Torpedo – A Norwegian band whose coast-to-coast tour was a viral campaign to promote the Ford Fusion car.[228]
Lip dub – Although lip dubbing in music videos was not a new concept, Jake Lodwick, the co-founder of Vimeo, coined the term "lip dubbing" on December 14, 2006, in a video entitled Lip Dubbing: Endless Dream.[229][230] Lodwick subsequently directed the "Flagpole Sitta" "office lip dub" in April 2007, which The Washington Post covered.[231][232] vSince then, dozens of lip dubs have been coordinated around the world by students. After L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) produced a lip dub to The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" in 2009, the viral video phenomenon gained international acclaim.[233]
Literal music video – Covers of music videos where the original lyrics have been replaced with ones that literally describe the events that occur in the video, typically disconnected with the original lyrics of the song.[235][236]
Nightcore - A type of music that started as a subgenre of trance and is still considered so by many people. Nightcore is characterized by a sped-up melody (sometimes), fast rhythmic beat (usually), and always higher than normal pitch. Almost all nightcore music are original songs nightcored (remixed into nightcore) by nightcore fans. Nightcore was introduced in 2002 and began its spread to the internet in mid 2005.[237]
"Pink Season" - An album by artist and YouTube personality Filthy Frank, under his "Pink Guy" persona. The album consists of various tracks that are often overly vulgar and comedic. The album went viral on its release and soared to the top of the iTunes charts.[238]
Rickrolling – A phenomenon involving posting a URL in an Internet forum that appears to be relevant to the topic at hand, but is, in fact, a link to a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". The practice originated on 4chan as a "Duckroll", in which an image of a duck on wheels was what was linked to. The practice of Rickrolling became popular after April Fools' Day in 2008 when YouTube rigged every feature video on its home page to Rick Astley's song.[239][240]
"Sandstorm" – A phenomenon which involves answering a question about song's name. For example, in the comments of a YouTube video with Darude's 1999 song Sandstorm, no matter what the song in the video is.[241]
009 Sound System - An electronic music project by Alexander Perls that gained popularity on YouTube after its implementation of the AudioSwap system on the website, which replaced copyrighted music with a Creative Commons licensed track. Since the track names were in alphabetical sorting, 009 Sound System tracks were first on the list, which made them the most used ones. Most popular tracks were "With a Spirit", "Dreamscape", "Holy Ghost", "Space and Time" and others. During the AudioSwap era of YouTube, users reacted negatively to these songs being very frequent on the site, but in YouTube's later days, "With a Spirit" became the site's unofficial anthem, as considered by users. It's an important aspect when referring to YouTube's Golden Era, along with low-resolution, low-framerate desktop capture videos (usually captured with the unregistered version of the software HyperCam 2), Club Penguin tutorials, mostly about hacking the game's currency, with the tutorial steps being written in Notepad, footage edited with Windows Movie Maker (usually using poor grammar and loudly colored characters in different fonts) and clickbait titles among others.[243]
"All Star" – A song by rock band Smash Mouth known for its appearance in the 2001 film Shrek and its opening line "Somebody once told me". These two factors led the song to become a meme often associated with Shrek. The song has also been a large part of mashup culture, often being mashed up with various songs.[244] The band has also embraced the song's memes.[245]
"Big Enough" - An EDM country song by Kirin J. Callinan. The music video for the song portrays Jimmy Barnes as a giant screaming cowboy in the sky. The video went viral when the sound of Barnes screaming was put over other screams in pop culture.[246]
"Chum Drum Bedrum" – A video of Russian singer Vitas performing the 7th Element. The video went viral due to Vitas singing gibberish such as "Blr ha ha ha" which led to Vitas being known as "The Weird Russian Singer".[247][248]
"Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1" – A song by rapper Kanye West. Metro Boomin's signature producer tag, "If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gonna shoot ya" and entrance inspired various Vines and Memes about the song, usually involving somebody shooting a gun.[249][250]
"Fireflies" – A 2009 song by Owl City that became revived as a meme in May 2017. In the meme, the song would play in random clips.[251] The song received further notability in June 2017 when Owl City was asked to interpret the lyric "I get a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs."[251][252]
"For The Damaged Coda" – A 2000 song from alternative rock band Blonde Redhead popularlized by animated television series Rick And Morty spawned memes after the song was placed over sad moments in popular culture.[253]
"Lazy Sunday" – A 2005 Saturday Night Live sketch written and performed by Andy Samburg and Chris Parnell in which the two engage in a hip-hop song about their plans for a lazy Sunday afternoon. The song was uploaded by fans to YouTube, at that time a relative small, new site, and had been watched by millions of users before it was taken down as a copyright violation by NBC. This created the idea of being able to provide reuse of television material on the Internet, giving shows a second life, and is stated to have established YouTube as a potential revenue source for television networks, contributing towards Google's purchase of the site for $1.6 billion in 2006.[254][255][256]
"Man's Not Hot" – A freestyle rap by British comedian Michael Dapaah. The freestyle features Dapaah saying unintelligible phrases and words which made the video into a meme which was remixed with various songs.[257]
"Mooo!" – A 2018 novelty song by American rapper Doja Cat who sings "Bitch I'm a cow / I'm not a cat / I don't go meow". The music video was filmed with a DIY green screen made out of a bed sheet and has gained over 72 million views on YouTube.[258][259][260][261]
"Nyan Cat" – A video of an animated cat running through space, accompanied with a UTAU song which the lyrics are simply "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!". The video went viral after bloggers started reposting the song.[262]
"Pokemon Go Song" – A song by YouTube personality Mishovy Silenosti. The video has surpassed 2.5 million views[263] and has become one of the most disliked YouTube videos.
" 1, 2, Oatmeal" - A song originally published in German to the tune of Gourmet Race from Kirby Super Star. A few years later, it was translated into English. The translation is out of key and does not follow the format of the song; however, each verse repeats.
"Redbone" - A 2016 song by music artist Childish Gambino. In early 2017, the song became a popular meme consisting of various remixes of the song to fit a certain theme.[271]
"Shooting Stars" – A 2009 song by Australian band Bag Raiders that went viral in 2017. The song is usually accompanied with people falling with surreal, spacey backgrounds.[272] The meme has since been acknowledged by the band itself.[273]
"Super Max!" – A 2016 song by Dutch Max Verstappen fan group The Pitstop Boys. The song and music video gained popularity during Verstappen's 2021 title run in Formula One.[274]
"Surrender to Me" - A song recorded, but never released, by former Boston drummer William "Curly" Smith in 1978. In January 2022, Curly's son, Zach, discovered the song and posted a video on TikTok about the discovery.[275] After it gained popularity, Zach and Curly would then release "Surrender to Me" as a single under the name "FireCityFunk" in February 2022,[276] as well as appearing and performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[277]
Trololo – A 1976 televised performance of Russian singer Eduard Khil lip-syncing the song I Am Glad to Finally Be Home (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой). The video's first mainstream appearance was on The Colbert Report, on 3 March 2010;[278] since then, its popularity has escalated, occasionally being used as part of a bait-and-switch prank, similar to Rickrolling.[279][280]
"Tunak Tunak Tun" – A 1998 song by Indian artist Daler Mehndi. The music video of the song features multiple images of Mehndi greenscreened over computer-generated landscapes. The reason why this was done were the critics, who complained that Mehndi's music was only popular because his music videos featured beautiful women dancing. Mehndi's response was to create a video that featured only himself.[282]
"When Mama Isn't Home" – A video of a father playing trombone and a son playing an oven door to the song 'Freaks' by Timmy Trumpet and Savage (rapper) in October, 2014.[283] The video went viral on Vine and YouTube, and the father and son appeared on Morning TV talk shows and travelled to Europe to film a TV commercial for Hewlett Packard. The song went on to become a charting success reaching the Billboard viral charts Top 10, 6 x platinum status in Australia and number 1 in Savage's home country, New Zealand.[284][285]
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - A New wave song which aired on a German radio station in 1984 thought to originate from a European band. Who created this song and the song's name in question is unknown. The mission to find the song gained popularity in 2019 after a Brazilian Reddit user asked the website if they knew of the song's origins.
