Gangnam Style

"Gangnam Style"
"Gangnam Style"
Single by PSY
from the EP Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1
Language	Korean
Released	July 15, 2012
Recorded	2011–2012
Genre	K-pop; hip hop; dance-pop; EDM;
Length	3:39
Label	YG; Universal Republic; School Boy;
Songwriter(s)	Park Jae-sang;
Producer(s)	Park Jae-sang; Yoo Gun-hyung; Yang Hyun-suk;
PSY singles chronology
Music video
	"Gangnam Style" on YouTube
Korean name
Hangul	강남스타일
Hanja	江南스타일
RR	Gangnam seutail
MR	Kangnam sŭt'ail

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"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^[update]. 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.

Gangnam Style continued to be the most viewed YouTube video until August 4, 2017, months since the music video for Despacito was first released.

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.

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. 17 September 2012.

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[Fisher-1] 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.

[Cochrane-2] 1 2 Cochrane, Greg (October 1, 2012). "Gangnam Style the UK's first K-pop number one". BBC News. Retrieved September 9, 2025.

[3] "'Gangnam Style' Sees Veteran Singer Psy Leapfrog K-Pop Bands". The Chosun Ilbo. August 13, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2025.

[4] Wood, Mikael (December 31, 2012). "Psy threatens to retire 'Gangnam Style' on New Year's Eve". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 9, 2025.

[zingnews.vn-5] "Psy (Gangnam Style) – 'kẻ tâm thần' một lần vụt sáng rồi chợt tắt". ZingNews.vn (in Vietnamese). November 27, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2025.

[billboard1007965212-6] "Rap Songs 2012-10-20". Billboard. October 1, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2025.

[MostViewedKpop-7] "Popularity of Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Analyzed Realistically". KpopStarz. 2012-09-02. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-10-04.

[8] 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.

[despacitopassgangnam-9] "'Despacito' Just Became the First Video to Reach Three Billion Views on YouTube". Forbes.

[10] "PSY – Gangnam Style Sheet Music (Digital Download)". Musicnotes.com. 17 September 2012.