The most popular videos of 2018

Every year since 2010, YouTube Rewind publishes the lists of top trending videos of the year at YouTube, and from 2011 on they also publish an all-star, all-encompasing video.  You can watch below the one from 2018.  The theme for this year is Everyone Controls Rewind which means, of course, everyone but you and me.  This kind of theme, seen before on TV clip shows, leads as expected to a questionable selection of choices.  The result hasn't pleased the audience, which has responded by making this video the most disliked one in the history of YouTube with more than 10 million dislikes at present.

There are specific lists for most countries, and then the global list which is of course for the entire globe. For 2018 there are two global, top-ten video lists:

• Top Trending Videos of 2018 (Global) - Seven out of ten videos are in English, including the most viewed sport video, which happens to be a summary video from the Football World Cup Russia 2018... the summary for the final match, you ask?  No, for some reason it is the Portugal-Spain.  Well, it happened to have six goals, three of them extraordinary ones.
• Top Music Videos of 2018 (Global) - As we said on the article for the past year, at We study English we focus on, of course, English.  However, the yearly Top Music Videos list is hardly of any help, as it is dominated by Spanish year after year.  Again, as we said last year, should we take this list as a foundation for language learning we would conclude that the English speakers should learn Spanish rather than the other way round.   This year, if anything, the Spanish language asserts even more its dominance over this list, taking eight of the ten places including the top two.  English is left with only the third and eighth places.  Below we can see the video Maroon 5 - Girls Like You ft. Cardi B and read the lyrics, taken from Google Search.
  
  

Girls Like You
Maroon 5


Spent 24 hours
I need more hours with you
You spent the weekend
Getting even, ooh ooh
We spent the late nights
Making things right, between us
But now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwood baby
And play me close


'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Girls like you
Love fun, yeah me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


I spent last night
On the last flight to you
Took a whole day up
Trying to get way up, ooh ooh
We spent the daylight
Trying to make things right between us
And now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwood baby
And play me close


'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Girls like you
Love fun, yeah me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


I need a girl like you


Maybe it's 6:45
Maybe I'm barely alive
Maybe you've taken my shit for the last time, yeah
Maybe I know that I'm drunk
Maybe I know you're the one
Maybe I'm thinking it's better if you drive


'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Girls like you
Love fun, yeah me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah


Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I need a girl like you


Autores de la canción: Adam Noah Levine / Henry Russell Walter / Belcalis Almanzar / Brittany Talia Hazzard / Jason Gregory Evigan / Gian Stone / Kleonard Raphael

Letra de Girls Like You © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, BMG Rights Management, Cypmp