Nelly Furtado is officially a member of YouTube's Billion Views Club.
As reported by Billboard, the singer's “Say It Right” music video featuring Timbaland joins a star-studded list of artists to achieve this milestone just under 15 years after it was first uploaded.
For Say It Right, posted on the platform in June 2009, Furtado was seen performing the track while standing atop a Los Angeles skyscraper and a helicopter field bearing her name. There is.
Clips of a trio of male dancers and footage of Timbaland providing the song's distinctive backing vocals are spliced between shots of the Canadian artist singing into the camera.
The song earned Furtado a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
Released as a single from her third studio album, Loose, “Say It Right” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007 and propelled the album to the top of the Billboard 200.
The album also contained the Timbaland-featured hit “Promiscuous,” which topped the charts for six weeks.
Fifteen years later, Furtado's music career has reached six albums.
Her latest single, “Love Bites,” featuring Tove Lo and SG Lewis, was released on May 22nd.
An early measure of a video's popularity, the YouTube Billion View Club includes clips that have received at least 1 billion views since their initial upload.
Furtado joins the same list of stars as Luis Fonsi's Despacito, Ed Sheeran's The Shape of You and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk.
In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first video to surpass 1 billion views.
In January 2022, Pinkfong's “Baby Shark” became the first video to reach 10 billion views.