Youtube近日公布最新榜單，電影《速度與激情7》主題曲《See you again》MV的播放量超越韓國歌手Psy（鳥叔）的《江南Style》，成為全球觀看次數最多的視頻。在《速度與激情》系列電影的主力演員保羅·沃克意外去世后，電影制作方希望通過制作一首歌曲以紀念和緬懷保羅，于是有了這首歌。

Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube.
韓國歌手“鳥叔”（Psy）的《江南Style》不再是YouTube上播放量最多的視頻了。

The South Korean megahit had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years.
《江南Style》曾是風靡全球的“神曲”，連續五年來穩居YouTube視頻播放量榜首。

The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code.
這首洗腦神曲曾引爆全球熱潮，不僅刷新YouTube最高紀錄，觀看次數甚至一度超越計數器可以負荷的極限（21億4748萬3647次），更是迫使該公司升級其計數系統。

Gangnam Style

But the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again.
如今這一神話終被維茲?卡利法和查理?普斯的《See You Again》打破。

The heart-wrenching ballad has now been streamed 2,895,373,709 times; beating Psy's current count of 2,894,426,475 views.
截至目前，這首打動人心的歌曲在YouTube上的點擊次數已達到28億9537萬3709次，一舉擊敗了鳥叔的《江南Style》（點擊次數28億9442萬6475次）。

Adding it up, that means See You Again has been streamed for a total of 21,759 years. If one person was to listen to each of those streams consecutively, they'd have to have started during the glacial peak of the last Ice Age.
這意味著《See You Again》在YouTube上的播放總時長累計達21759年。也就是說一個人要從末次冰河時期的冰川高峰期開始連續循環該單曲，直到現在才能播完。

"I joined YouTube in 2007 hoping to make a video that would reach 10,000 views," wrote Charlie Puth on Twitter. "Just heard about See You Again... Wow."
查理?普斯在推特上發文說：“我2007年開始刷YouTube，想要創作出點擊量超一萬的視頻。但是剛剛聽說了《See You Again》榮登榜首，哇哦。”

The song was written for the action movie Furious 7, playing over the closing credits in tribute to the actor Paul Walker, who died in a car accident before the film was completed.
作為動作影片《速度與激情7》的主題曲，這首旋律是為了向電影拍攝完成前在車禍中不幸離世的保羅?沃克致敬。

With its unabashedly sentimental lyrics ("it's been a long day without you my friend/ And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"), See You Again has become one of the most frequently requested pop songs at funerals in the UK.
憑借令人動容的歌詞（“沒有老友你的陪伴，日子真是漫長/與你重逢之時，我會敞開心扉傾訴所有”），《See You Again》已經成為英國人葬禮上被要求播放次數最多的流行歌曲之一。

It was the best-selling song worldwide in 2015, and received best song nominations at both the Grammys and the Oscars.
2015年，《See You Again》是年度全球最暢銷單曲，并獲得格萊美和奧斯卡的最佳歌曲提名。

The music video features the final scene of Furious 7, in which the two main characters Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Cody Walker, filling in for his brother, Paul), drive side-by-side, sharing a smile for the last time before they pull onto separate roads and drive into the sunset.
MV的最后畫面是電影《速度與激情7》中的兩大主角多米尼克·托萊多（范?迪塞爾飾演）和布萊恩·奧康納（由科迪?沃克代其兄保羅出演）并肩行駛，最后一次相視一笑，在夕陽下駛向兩條不同的道路。

As the camera pans up into the sky, a title card reads "For Paul" and the video ends.
當鏡頭緩緩移向天空，“致保羅”的字樣映入眼簾，MV才最終結束。

The video reached 1 billion views in six months, and hit 2 billion last September. However, its reign as YouTube's most-watched clip may be short-lived.
MV發行僅半年就在YouTube上達到了10億次的點擊量，并在去年九月突破20億次。然而《See You Again》的“寶座”可能維持不了多久。

Luis Fonsi's summer smash Despacito has racked up 2.5 billion views in just six months, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
路易斯·馮西今年夏天大火的單曲《Despacito》發行僅半年，點擊量現已急速上升到25億次，且絲毫沒有減弱的跡象。

The Puerto Rican song - sung in a mixture of Spanish and English - has been number one in the UK for the last eight weeks, thanks in part to a remix featuring Justin Bieber.
這支波多黎各單曲用西班牙語和英語演唱，賈斯汀?比伯助陣參與混音，已經連續八周奪得英國歌曲播放量排行榜的冠軍寶座。

Whoever takes the title, though, its good news for Universal Music, which owns all of the songs.
而無論哪首歌榮登榜首，對環球唱片公司來說都是好消息，因為這些單曲都由該公司發行。

Meanwhile, 47 of the top 50 clips on YouTube are music videos, proving the importance of the streaming site to the music industry - despite the fact the two sides are locked in a battle over royalty payments.
同時，YouTube上點擊量前50的視頻中音樂視頻就占了47個，這也證實了流媒體網站對音樂產業的重要性，盡管雙方正在專利使用費這一問題上爭得不可開交。

According to analysis by Midia Research, every stream on YouTube generates $0.001 for the music industry.
據傳媒研究分析，YouTube上的每個流媒體能為音樂產業帶來0.001美元的收益。

If accurate, that means Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's song has earned $2.9m from YouTube - roughly the same amount it has made from 665 million plays on Spotify.
如果該數據準確，這就意味著《See You Again》已經從YouTube的播放量中獲得290萬美元（約合人民幣1968萬元）的收益。這支MV在流媒體音樂服務平臺聲田上的播放量也達6.65億，創造的收益與在YouTube上的大致相當。

一起來欣賞一下這首精彩的MV吧：

英文來源：BBC
翻譯：胡紫畫（中國日報網愛新聞iNews譯者）
編審：yaning