Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up rolls past one billion YouTube views: ‘That is mind-blowing!’

Rick Astley’s Eighties pop bop Never Gonna Give You Up rolls past a BILLION YouTube views: ‘That is mind-blowing!’

His popular ’80s song is rolling into history.

And Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up officially earned one billion YouTube views on Wednesday.

The song, which was released on July 27, 1987, was first uploaded to the video platform almost 12 years ago and found notoriety as one of the earliest YouTube pranks for Rickrolling.

Congrats! Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up officially earned one billion YouTube views on Wednesday

Astley shared his excitement for the major milestone in a video shared to Twitter. 

‘1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!’ he captioned a video tweet. 

While relaxing lakeside, Astley said: ‘I’ve jus been told that ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has been streamed a billion times on YouTube. That is mind-blowing. The world is a wonderful and beautiful place and I am very lucky.’

YouTube celebrated the accomplishment with a clip from the video and ‘You never gave him up …’ written across the bottom.

'1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!' he captioned a video tweet

‘1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!’ he captioned a video tweet

Not a rick roll: YouTube celebrated the accomplishment with a clip from the video and 'You never gave him up ...' written across the bottom

Not a rick roll: YouTube celebrated the accomplishment with a clip from the video and ‘You never gave him up …’ written across the bottom

Big time: Never Gonna Give You Up is only the fourth music video from the '80s to join YouTube's Billion Views Club, behind Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child o' Mine, A-ha's Take on Me, and Michael Jackson's Billie Jean

Big time: Never Gonna Give You Up is only the fourth music video from the ’80s to join YouTube’s Billion Views Club, behind Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child o’ Mine, A-ha’s Take on Me, and Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean

Part of Astley’s celebration included releasing 2,500 limited-edition numbered and signed blue vinyl singles.

The video giant announced that Astley’s clip reached daily views of over 2.3million on April Fool’s Day alone. 

Rickrolling continues to be a popular prank where users bait-and-switch a disguised link which actually leads to the music video.

While the craze began with Astley’s video began in 2006, it picked up steam and became a full-fledged success after Astley made a surprise appearance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade  and lip-synced the song in 2008. 

Never Gonna Give You Up is only the fourth music video from the ’80s to join YouTube’s Billion Views Club, behind Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child o’ Mine, A-ha’s Take on Me, and Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. 

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