‘Gangnam Style’ passes 2B views on YouTube; video site celebrates with animation

Now it's official: Korean artist PSY's monster hit "Gangnam Style" on Saturday set a record by passing the two-billion mark in terms of views on video sharing site YouTube.

Even YouTube congratulated PSY for the feat in a message posted on its Google+ account shortly before noon Saturday, PHL time. YouTube is owned by Google.

"The most-viewed video on YouTube just hit another jaw-dropping milestone. Congrats on your 2 billionth view, PSY!" YouTube said.

As of Saturday noon, the video published on July 15, 2012 has had 2,000,043,529 views.

To celebrate the feat, animated icons depicting a dancing PSY were placed on the area of the page that displays the number of views.

Clicking on the icons will trigger an animation on top the page. The animation depicts several people dancing to "Gangnam Style" to celebrate the two-billion mark.

The official "Gangnam Style" video was published on July 15, 2012, and reached one billion views before the end of 2012.

While the song spent 31 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 list and generated countless parodies, "it also spent approximately three months stuck in just about every human being's head," tech site Mashable said.

PSY's follow-up hit, "Gentleman," had 688,979,755 YouTube views as of Saturday noon.  — Joel Locsin /LBG, GMA News