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His popular '80s song is rolling into history.
And Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up officially earned one billion YouTube views on Wednesday.
The song, which was released on July 27, 1987, was first uploaded to the video platform almost 12 years ago and found notoriety as one of the earliest YouTube pranks for Rickrolling.
Congrats! Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up officially earned one billion YouTube views on Wednesday
Astley shared his excitement for the major milestone in a video shared to Twitter.
'1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!' he captioned a video tweet.
While relaxing lakeside, Astley said: 'I've jus been told that 'Never Gonna Give You Up' has been streamed a billion times on YouTube. That is
