Source: www.wnyc.org --- Saturday, December 31, 2016
Who's the YouTube star of 2016? Adele singing carpool karaoke and the Japanese comic who made the viral Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen video were among the top 10 videos of the year. But there was lots of competition around the world. This month, YouTube Rewind released its list of the top 10 most popular YouTube videos in nearly 40 countries and regions, based on how many people viewed and shared them. Here's a sampling from some of the places we cover in our blog. Nigeria: The 6-year-old wisecracker With nearly 6.7 million views, Nigeria's top video of the year features a comedic faceoff between six-year-old Emanuella Samuel and a gang of bullies nearly twice her size. "You're not afraid of me right?" she shouts (even though she is clearly afraid of them). The video, titled "I'll Beat You," is also ranked among the top 10 most popular videos in South Africa and Uganda. Senegal: Doing the sabar Last year, a new dance — the na goore -- brought out the moves in Senegal . This year, something old is new again: sabar, a traditional Senegalese dance set to energetic drumbeats and characterized by "high-knee lifts and springing jumps," as a New York Times dance critic put it. Abandoned during the French colonization of the 1800s, sabar re-emerged between the 1960s and 1980s under the country's first president in the post-colonial period as a point of national pride. The video has picked up close to 1.4 million YouTube views. India: Dad dares ...
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