Rick Astley uncertain succes

The song was released this week 34 years ago and became popular with the rise of Rickrolling, an Internet prank in which people are tricked into clicking a hyperlink to the video. At the time of writing, the YouTube video has received 1,001,264,871 views. Astley said the breakthrough of the billion mark was “incredible.” In a video posted on Twitter, he said he was “very lucky”.