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"Adele continues to smash records as her hit song &amp;#8220;Hello&amp;#8221; became the fastest video to break 1 billion views on YouTube.\nIn just 87 days, the song easily surpassed the previous mark held by PSY\u2019s \u201CGangnam Style,&amp;#8221; which took 158 days to reach the billion-view milestone, YouTube announced in a blog post on Friday.\n&amp;#8220;If anyone deserves it, it&amp;#8217;s Adele and that song,&amp;#8221; Susanne Daniels, the head of original programming at YouTube, told the New York Times.\n\nSeventeen videos have made it past 1 billion views, according to YouTube, and all of them are music-related. Adele&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Hello&amp;#8221; joins &amp;#8220;Baby&amp;#8221; by Justin Bieber, \u201CLean On\u201D by Major Lazer, \u201CParty Rock\u201D by LMFAO, and \u201CChandelier\u201D by Sia.\nThe video for &amp;#8220;Hello&amp;#8221; was previously anointed as the biggest debut in 2015 on YouTube, with 50 million views in its first 48 hours alone. Adele also beat Taylor Swift&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Bad Blood&amp;#8221; for the most eyeballs on music platform Vivo in its first 24 hours with 27.7 million.\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\nAdele&amp;#8217;s album, 25, also made history when it sold 3.38 million U.S. copies in its first full week of its release, the biggest single-week sales tally for an album since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991. It has sold 5.98 million copies so far."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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