{"id":141367,"date":"2022-10-19T04:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-polices-every-breath-you-take-hits-one-billion-views-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T04:50:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:20:49","slug":"youtube-hits-one-billion-views-for-polices-every-breath-you-take-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/youtube-hits-one-billion-views-for-polices-every-breath-you-take-video\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube hits one billion views for Police&#8217;s &#8220;Every Breath You Take&#8221; video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe music video for the Police\u2019s 1983 single \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201dYouTube has seen more than one billion videos. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cEvery Breath You Take,\u201d which was added to the platform in 2010, is the 225th video to join YouTube\u2019s Billion Views Club and the seventh video from the 1980s to achieve this milestone. The Sting-penned ballad was originally released as part of the band\u2019s final studio album, 1983\u2019s \u201cSynchronicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDirected by English music duo Godley &amp; Creme, the music video captures the trio in black and white, with Sting on double bass, Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nIn 2019, \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201dWith 15 million radio plays, it was named the BMI Pop Awards&#8217; most-listened song. The song was also added to Spotify\u2019s Billions Club last year after hitting over one billion streams on that platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nThe Police emerged from the British original. \u201cnew wave\u201d of the late 1970s, are known for such hit albums as 1979\u2019s \u201cReggatta de Blanc,\u201d 1980\u2019s \u201cZenyatta Mondatta\u201d \u201cSynchronicity.\u201d The multi-award-winning trio has sold over 75 million records worldwide, and scored two Brit Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and six Grammys \u2014 including best pop performance by a duo or group for \u201cEvery Breath You Take.\u201dThe band was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Police\u2019s YouTube channel has over 1.5 million subscribers and, according to the platform, their \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201dThis year, music videos have had an average of more than 300,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe song\u2019s popularity continues to endure also through being licensed for other uses that drive music fans back to hear the original, from it being sampled for Puff Daddy\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ll Be Missing You\u201dIts current usage in a DuckDuckGo advertisement campaign.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music video for the Police\u2019s 1983 single \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201dYouTube has seen more than one billion videos. \u201cEvery Breath You Take,\u201d which was added to the platform in 2010, is the 225th video to join YouTube\u2019s Billion Views Club and the seventh video from the 1980s to achieve this milestone. The Sting-penned ballad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141368,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367\/revisions\/141368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}