{"id":166418,"date":"2025-06-12T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit-video-hits-two-billion-youtube-views\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:10:08","slug":"nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit-video-hits-two-billion-youtube-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit-video-hits-two-billion-youtube-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirvana\u2019s \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019 Video Hits Two Billion YouTube\u00a0Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\u201cHere we are now, entertain us.\u201d You asked for it and Nirvana<\/a> provided. The iconic grunge trio\u2019s beloved video for breakthrough 1991 hit \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d has just crossed the two billion views mark on YouTube. The Samuel Bayer-directed clip in which late singer\/guitarist Kurt Cobain and company rock a high school gym into a frenzy debuted on MTV in the fall of 1991, quickly catapulting the group to global superstardom.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile the majority of the YouTube music videos<\/a> with two billion or more views are from pop, Latin, country and hip-hop artists including Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Enrique Iglesias, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Shakira and Alan Walker, there are a handful of other rock videos that have reached that storied height. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the other rock acts to hit two billie are: Twenty One Pilots (\u201cStressed Out,\u201d \u201cHeathens\u201d), Imagine Dragons (\u201cBeliever,\u201d \u201cThunder\u201d), Guns N\u2019 Roses (\u201cNovember Rain\u201d) and Linkin Park (\u201cNumb\u201d). \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d was first uploaded to YouTube at 2009 and hit the one billion mark in 2019. <\/p>\n

\n\tTwo months after its release, the song that defined a generation topped Billboard\u2019s Alternative Songs chart on Nov. 23, 1991 and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The unlikely long-for-pop-radio five minute hit featuring such obtuse lyrics as \u201cA mulatto, an albino a mosquito, my libido\u201d and a visual in which band members Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic thrash about as anarchist cheerleaders whip teens into a frenzy in a smoke-shrouded gymnasium was the unlikeliest hits at a time when Bryan Adams, Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men ruled the charts. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut the song helped the band\u2019s second studio album, Nevermind<\/em>, climb the charts and end then chart king Michael Jackson\u2019s run at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart on Jan. 11, 1992 when it pushed his Dangerous<\/em> album from the to of the heap.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d below.<\/p>\n

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