1 Billion for the Red Hot Chili Peppers – Screamin’ Scott
The Red Hot Chili Peppers video for “Californication” has now surpassed the one billion views mark on the YouTube streaming service. Remember when MTV showed videos? MTV took the path of not showing videos in replacement of 16-year-olds being pregnant. So the savior of music was YouTube. Besides showing millions of cat videos the band released videos on the YouTube platform. The video officially surpassed the one billion views mark on (Dec. 5) after being uploaded to YouTube 13 years ago. https://youtu.be/YlUKcNNmywk
In comparison, on January 13, 2022, Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark” became the first video to hit 10,000,000,000 views.
The “Californication” song is the fourth single from the band’s album. It topped both the Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock charts, No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, and has been certified as a 5 times platinum single in the U.S. by the RIAA. When RHCP played over the summer in August at Comerica Park. The audience erupted in cheers when the song was played live. Can you picture 34,000 people singing your song in concert? Congrats to Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, and John Frusciante.