Hilariously enough, even the master himself has been Rickrolled, admitting as much during an interview with Larry King and during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session. If you were to tally all of the other instances of the video on YouTube and elsewhere, the total would no doubt be much higher. never never gonna give you up never never gonna give you up Whatever, whatever, babe Ill do it Forever and ever, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Ill see you through it Ive got to keep you pleased in every way I can Gonna give you all of me, as much or you can stand Make love to you right now, thats all I want to do I know you need it boy. It's worth clarifying that the video in question (the one with over a billion views) was uploaded to Astley's official YouTube channel in late 2009. It has remained a part of pop culture ever since.ġ BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful! Then in the mid-2000s, the song fell back into popularity thanks to a bait-and-switch meme that originated on 4chan and became known as Rickrolling. 'Never Gonna Give You Up' was the debut single off Astley's 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody and was popular for a brief period before slipping into obscurity. It'd be another two-and-a-half years before another video, Justin Bieber's 'Baby,' joined the club. The first video to garner more than a billion views was Psy's ' Gangnam Style,' doing so in December 2012.

Remarkably, the gag has only gotten more popular in recent years with the rise of video calling brought about by the pandemic. That's no easy feat considering that as of last November, only 16 videos had exceeded the one billion views mark. Watch the never gonna give you up video before converting or downloading, you can preview it by clicking Watch Video button. The big picture: Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' has joined the coveted Billion View Club on YouTube.

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