Nirvana’s iconic music video for his or her game-changing hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has surpassed 2 billion views on YouTube.
Whereas greater than 100 music movies have reached that milestone, solely a handful of them have been from rock acts, with even much less from onerous rock bands. Solely Linkin Park’s “Numb” and “The Finish,” and Weapons N’ Roses’ “November Rain” are forward of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” so far as heavier acts are involved. Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” (that includes Daddy Yankee) stays essentially the most watched music video on YouTube with a whopping 8.7 billion views.
Upon its launch in 1991, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” helped introduce Nirvana to the plenty, blowing the doorways down for the grunge and alternative-rock revolution that will bump hair metallic off the rock pedestal on MTV. The brand new milestone comes simply five-and-a-half years after the music video reached 1 billion views in 2019.