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On 8 May 2017, 97 days after its release, it became one of the fastest music videos to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, and as of April 2023, the music video has over 6 billion views on the site and is the site's fifth most-watched video as well as the second most-watched music video. [89]
"Shape of You" peaked at number one on the singles charts of 34 countries, including the US Billboard Hot 100 — later becoming the best performing song of 2017 — as well as in
Pakistani popular music or shortly Pak-pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz, rock and roll, hip hop and disco sung in various languages of Pakistan, including Urdu. The popularity of music is based on the individual sales of a ...
The accompanying music video for "Shape" was directed by Michael Gracey and Pete Commins. [32] [33] It was filmed during December 2002 in Sydney, Australia, and was released on 24 February 2003. [34] Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! team assisted in its production. [34] Sting did not appear in the video due to a busy schedule. [34]
On MTV's Total Request Live the music video broke the Backstreet Boys' record for the longest-running number-one song, which was previously held by "Larger Than Life" (1999). The video spent 65 days at the top position. As of May 2023, the music video has over 308 million views on YouTube. [6]
The song has become the second cover after "Shape of You - Sri Lankan Mashup" by three member DeepSounds to go massively viral in Sri Lanka and the first ever to have a wider global outreach. [11] [1] [12] The song surpassed 232+ million views on YouTube. [13] [14] [6] The song debuted at number 8 on the Asian Music Chart Top 40 on 24 September ...
"Zaroori Tha" by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is the most-viewed Pakistani video on YouTube. It is also the first Pakistani video to reach 1 billion views. On the American video-sharing website YouTube, "Tajdar-e-Haram" sung by Atif Aslam became first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views.
In mid-1985, Western-influenced rock music began to be noticed by the public, and underground concerts were held all over the country. [4] The quick success of the music jolted the country in a time when President General Zia-ul-Haq was reigning, as the historically, most popular chairman and Pakistani Leader in history. [5]