Gangnam Style
| "Gangnam Style" | ||||
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| Single by PSY | ||||
| from the EP Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 | ||||
| Language | Korean | |||
| Released | July 15, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011–2012 | |||
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| Length | 3:39 | |||
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| "Gangnam Style" on YouTube | ||||
| Korean name | ||||
| Hangul | 강남스타일 | |||
| Hanja | 江南스타일 | |||
| RR | Gangnam seutail | |||
| MR | Kangnam sŭt'ail | |||
"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일) is a K-pop song by South Korean singer PSY. The music video has been watched over 3.2 billion times on YouTube as of August 28, 2018.[7] It is the first video in the website's history that more than 1 billion people have seen. It has made people make many videos like it but in other locations, named "parodies". Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Ban Ki-moon tried the song's dance moves.[8]
Gangnam Style continued to be the most viewed YouTube video until August 4, 2017, months since the music video for Despacito was first released.[9]
Arrangement
According to the sheet music that was originally published on Musicnotes.com by the Universal Music Publishing Group, the song is set in the time signature of 4
4 common time, with a fast tempo of 132 beats per minute, while arranged in the key of B minor (with the pre-chorus in B Mixolydian). PSY's vocals span from B3 to F♯4.[10]
References
- 1 2 Fisher, Max. "Visual music: How 'Gangnam Style' exploited K-pop's secret strength and overcame its biggest weakness". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- 1 2 Cochrane, Greg (October 1, 2012). "Gangnam Style the UK's first K-pop number one". BBC News. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "'Gangnam Style' Sees Veteran Singer Psy Leapfrog K-Pop Bands". The Chosun Ilbo. August 13, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ Wood, Mikael (December 31, 2012). "Psy threatens to retire 'Gangnam Style' on New Year's Eve". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Psy (Gangnam Style) – 'kẻ tâm thần' một lần vụt sáng rồi chợt tắt". ZingNews.vn (in Vietnamese). November 27, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Rap Songs 2012-10-20". Billboard. October 1, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Popularity of Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Analyzed Realistically". KpopStarz. 2012-09-02. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ↑ Couture, Pamela; Mager, Robert; McCarroll, Pamela; Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie (2015). Complex Identities in a Shifting World: One God, Many Stories. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90509-3.
- ↑ "'Despacito' Just Became the First Video to Reach Three Billion Views on YouTube". Forbes.
- ↑ "PSY – Gangnam Style Sheet Music (Digital Download)". Musicnotes.com.