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Nirvana ‘Smell Like Teen Spirit’ reaches one billion You Tube views

Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has reached one billion views on YouTube.

The iconic track – which was released in 1991 – was first uploaded onto the video-sharing platform in June 2009 and has now hit the one-billion views mark, thereby making it the second-most-viewed 90s music video on YouTube.

The only 90s song that is currently ahead of the Nirvana single in terms of views is Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain’, which has attracted almost 1.3 billion views.

‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was also recently named as the sixth-most-watched rock video in the 2010s by the video-hosting platform Vevo. …