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One of the main factors that have led to "Gangnam Style's" receiving worldwide media attention is its popularity among notable celebrities. A dancing PSY icon was shown near the view count. On December 21st, 2012, around 15:50 P.M, Gangnam Style officially reached 1 billion views, making it the first ever video on YouTube to ever get that goal. "Gangnam Style" has managed to catch the attention of international media outlets such as the CBC and CNN, the latter of which describes it as "very different and comedic." Other broadcasting networks, popular magazines and newspapers which have reported on "Gangnam Style" include Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Herald Sun, The Atlantic, The Vancouver Observer, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, USA Today, the Bleacher Report, Bloomberg, ESPN, Le Point, Libération Le Nouvel Observateur, BBC, VH1, M6 TV, and the Financial Times. On September 17, it was nominated for Best Video at the upcoming 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards that will be held in Frankfurt, Germany. On September 15, "Gangnam Style" became the first K-Pop song to take the number 1 position on the iTunes chart. He had beaten Taylor Swift to take the number one position for 3 weeks a feat that has so far only been achieved by Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Adele and Rihanna. During the last week of August, Billboard Magazine reported that Psy jumped up by 8 spots on the weekly Billboard Social 50. On August 4, Deborah Netburn of The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Gangnam Style" is "unstoppable" and it is "taking over the world". By early August, the international media began to take notice of it, and it became a worldwide hit.
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In K-Pop, it is unusual for an artist to write his own music and choreograph his own video as Psy does.Ībout a month after its initial release, on August 17, Gangnam Styleofficially won first-place in the Korean music television programme Music Bank on KBS 2TV, scoring a total of 18,601 points. The lyrics are by Psy, music by Psy and Yoo Gun-hyung, and it was arranged by Yoo Gun-hyung, who is a well-known producer in South Korea and also collaborated with Psy in the past. The song is a satire of conspicuous consumption in South Korea – such satire is unusual in South Korean music, especially in K-Pop, which is known for bubblegum pop. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that." I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. In a CNN interview, PSY has compared Gangnam to Beverly Hills, California, "Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea.