Put your hands up, they’re playing her song — a billion times and counting. Miley Cyrus‘ smash “Party in the U.S.A.” has surpassed the nine-zeros mark on YouTube, marking her second music video to reach the milestone.
Uploaded in September 2009, the Chris Applebaum-directed video finds the then-16-year-old pop star, well, partying in the U.S.A. Joined by a litany of backup dancers, Cyrus sports cowboy boots, and belts out her famous tune in a crowded drive-in movie lot, in front of a huge American flag banner and on a swing set structure, all of it culminating in one final patriotic concert at the end.
“So I put my hands up/ They’re playin’ my song, the butterflies fly away,” she sings on the Dr. Luke-produced banger. “I’m noddin’ my head like, yeah/ Movin’ my hips like, yeah.”
Released as the lead single of Cyrus’ 2009 EP The Time of our Lives, “Party in the U.S.A.” remains one of the Grammy winner’s biggest hits to date, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It marked the beginning of the star’s transition away from the family-friendly persona she cultivated on Hannah Montana — a pivot she would later cement with 2010’s Can’t Be Tamed and 2013’s Bangerz — and goes down in pop-culture fame as the song Cyrus sang during her controversial “pole dance” performance at the ’09 VMAs.
Speaking of Bangerz, Cyrus’ only other visual to reach a billion views so far is 2013’s “Wrecking Ball.”
Add your view to more than a billion others by watching Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” above.
