How many videos did you watch this year and how many of them do you still remember? Let's have a review of Top YouTube videos of 2017. The No. one maybe what you have never expected.
The hottest video, reaching 182 million views, shows a man singing a Thai song on the TV programme THE MASK SINGER 2. He wore an oyster costume to hide his identity and performed from singing to rapping the song "Until We Will Become Dust."
Another video is a choreography video which it hits more than 120 million audiences.
Let alone the aesthetic dancing steps, the background music "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran has already had 2.8billion hits which may be also the reason for the popularity of the video.
British singer Ed Sheeran performs during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, FILE)
YouTube determined its top trending videos based on time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and other metrics. They also created a combined video called " YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017" to celebrate the videos, people, music and memes that went viral in 2017.
Here are the YouTube Top 10 videos that went viral this year, in order:
1 Until We Will Become Dust - Oyster Masked | THE MASK SINGER 2
2 ED SHEERAN - Shape Of You | Kyle Hanagami Choreography
3 Ping Pong Trick Shots 3 | Dude Perfect
4 Darci Lynne: 12-Year-Old Singing Ventriloquist Gets Golden Buzzer - America’s Got Talent 2017
5 Ed Sheeran Carpool Karaoke
6 Lady Gaga’s FULL Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show | NFL
7 INAUGURATION DAY — A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump’s Inauguration
8 history of the entire world, i guess
9 In a Heartbeat - Animated Short Film
10 Children interrupt BBC News interview - BBC News
YouTube Top 10 MV in 2017, in order：
1 Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee
2 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You Official Video
3 J Balvin, Willy William - Mi Gente (Official Video)
4 Maluma - Felices los 4 (Official Video)
5 Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like Official Video
6 Chris Jeday - Ahora Dice (Official Video) ft. J. Balvin, Ozuna, Arcangel
7 El Amante - Nicky Jam (Video Oficial) (Álbum Fenix)
8 Jason Derulo - Swalla (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign) (Official Music Video)
9 DJ Khaled - I’m the One ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne
10 Enrique Iglesias - SUBEME LA RADIO (Official Video) ft. Descemer Bueno, Zion & Lennox
BOSTON (AP) — There has been no final decision on whether or not all U.S. troops will leave Niger and Chad, two African countries that are integral to the military's efforts to counter violent extremist organizations across the Sahel region, a top U.S. military official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Niger's ruling junta ended an agreement last month that allows U.S. troops to operate in the West African country. The State Department said Wednesday night that U.S. and Nigerien officials would meet Thursday in the capital, Niamey, “to initiate discussions on an orderly and responsible withdrawal of U.S. forces.”
That meeting comes as the two countries have been “unable to reach an understanding” to continue cooperation “in a manner that addresses the needs and concerns of each side,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
The government of neighboring Chad in recent days also has questioned its agreement with the U.S., Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Adm. Christopher Grady, the nation’s second-highest-ranking military officer, said in an interview.
The agreements allow the U.S. to conduct critical counterterrorism operations within the countries' borders and have supported military partner training in both nations. The reversals have prompted concern that U.S. influence in Africa is losing ground to overtures from Russia and China.
“We are all trying to establish ourselves as the partner of choice,” Grady said. “It’s up to us to establish why we think our partnership with them is important. We certainly want to be there. We want to help them, we want to empower them, we want to do things by, with and through (them)."
While U.S. officials said Saturday that the military would begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger, they said discussions on a new military agreement were ongoing.
"There’s still negotiations underway," Grady said. “I don’t believe there is a final decision on disposition of U.S. forces there.”
Relations have frayed between Niger and Western countries since mutinous soldiers ousted the country’s democratically elected president in July. Niger’s junta has since told French forces to leave and turned instead to Russia for security. Earlier this month, Russian military trainers arrived to reinforce the country’s air defenses and with Russian equipment to train Nigeriens to use.
The government of Chad also recently requested that U.S. forces leave, and officials from the State Department, U.S. Africa Command and the Pentagon will work with Chad's government to make the case for U.S. forces to stay, Grady said.
“The team has got get on the ground there and work it through,” Grady said.
He said that if both countries ultimately decide the U.S. cannot remain there, the military will have to look for alternatives to run counterterrorism missions across the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara Desert.
“If we are asked to leave, and after negotiations that’s the way it plays out, then we are going to have to recalculate and figure out a new way to do it,” Grady said.
FILE - A U.S. and Niger flag are raised side by side at the base camp for air forces and other personnel supporting the construction of Niger Air Base 201 in Agadez, Niger, April 16, 2018. The United States is attempting to create a new military agreement with Niger that would allow it to remain in the country, weeks after the junta said its presence was no longer justified, two Western officials told The Associated Press Friday April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Carley Petesch, File)
FILE - Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Christopher Grady, right, arrives for a closed door briefing about the leaked highly classified military documents, on Capitol Hill, April 19, 2023, in Washington. Grady says there's been no final decision on whether or not all U.S. troops will leave Niger and Chad. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
