YouTube India reveals Honey Singh's Brown Rang was the most trending video in India for 2012. PSY's Gangnam style could only manage second spot.
Even as the world went crazy for PSY’s Gangnam style, back in India it’s Yo! Yo! Honey Singh who emerged YouTube’s most trending video in India for 2012. Gangnam style had to manage only second spot after the Punjabi singer’s super hit Brown Rang.
While remembering the most popular and moments in 2012, Google said on its blog, “2012 has been a big year for YouTube globally and in India. Globally, users saw over 4 billion hours of video a month. Millions of creators world over are using YouTube channels to experiment with innovative forms of entertainment, explore their passions and interests, take creativity and pop culture to new levels. And we’re beginning to see amateurs filmmakers and video enthusiasts exploring their talent on YouTube in India.”
Google in the blog posted notes that the massive popularity of these videos in India shows YouTube has truly gone mainstream in the country with “million of users watching songs, their favorite TV shows and subscribing to their favorite channels. Language content is also picking up and has made its way to the top most subscribed channels”.
Here’s a list of content that trended YouTube India in 2012: