

Psy's video remained the most-liked on YouTube for nearly four years until August 27, 2016, when Wiz Khalifa's " See You Again" featuring Charlie Puth surpassed it with 11.21 million likes. Following this accomplishment, "Gangnam Style" entered the Guinness World Records book as the most-liked video on YouTube and on the Internet as of 2012. The music video for LMFAO's song " Party Rock Anthem" stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy's " Gangnam Style" surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes. This served as a replacement for their five-star rating system YouTube's designers found the previous system ineffective because the options to rate a video between two and four stars were rarely selected. YouTube implemented a like and dislike button on these pages in March 2010, part of a major redesign of the site. This list of most-liked YouTube videos contains the top 30 videos with the most likes of all time, taken directly from the video page.

" Despacito" by Luis Fonsi (left) featuring Daddy Yankee (right) has been the most liked video on YouTube since July 2017, with over 46 million likes as of December 2021.
