‘Crazy in Love’ video passes 1 billion YouTube views
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's “Crazy in Love” video has passed 1 billion views on YouTube.
Billboard reported the milestone on 23 September 2026. The count refers to the official upload on Beyoncé’s @beyonce channel.
It is Beyoncé’s third music video to reach 1 billion views. The first two were “Halo” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” Three videos past ten figures puts depth into a catalogue that began before YouTube existed.
“Crazy in Love” was released in 2003 as the lead single from Dangerously in Love. A lead single is the song released first to introduce an album. The album was Beyoncé’s solo debut.
The music video was directed by Jake Nava. It was recognised with best choreography at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. The award came in the same year as the song’s release.
The song became Beyoncé’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the US singles chart, as a solo artist. It spent eight consecutive weeks at No. 1. That run equals two calendar months at the top.
Sales have held up alongside viewing. In December 2024 it received an eight-times-platinum certification from the RIAA, the US body that certifies recorded-music sales. The certification covers 8 million certified units in the US. Certified units are the sales measure used for awards, combining purchases and streaming equivalents.
On YouTube the billion-view count sits with the upload titled “Crazy In Love ft. JAY Z”. The upload is listed as Beyoncé’s official video for the song and dates to 2 October 2009. It can be found at YouTube on a channel that lists 29.4 million subscribers and 465 videos.
The timeline is long. The song arrived in 2003, the YouTube upload followed in 2009, the eight-times-platinum award arrived in December 2024, and the billion-view milestone was confirmed in September 2026. Each step was counted by a different system, from weekly chart consumption to lifetime certification totals to all-time video plays.
What makes this stand out is persistence. A video made for television rotation in 2003 has kept finding new viewers through phones, laptops and smart TVs. For the people behind the numbers, from dancers to crew to rights holders, each replay still registers.
