Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ ‘Californication’ video has reached over one billion views on YouTube.
Released in 2000 because the fourth single from the band’s 1999 album of the identical title, the clip was posted to the platform in 2009. It was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
In the clip, the band star as avatars of themselves in a online game. According to Variety, up to now in 2022, it has averaged over 290,000 each day views on YouTube, serving to to cross the one billion mark.
Earlier, this 12 months an precise online game based mostly on it was launched on each Windows PC and mac0S.
Developer Miquel Camps Orteza stated on the time: “I wanted to play that game so bad! It’s 2022 and I haven’t seen anyone [make] the game, so I challenged myself to create it.”
The landmark video viewing comes simply two days after the band introduced a 2023 tour of North America, the UK and Europe, with The Strokes, Iggy Pop and extra all set to assist.
The band, who returned in 2022 with two new albums – ‘Unlimited Love’ and follow-up ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’ – will proceed their international tour from subsequent March, which can see them head out on a run of dates which start in Vancouver, Canada.
North American dates run till the top of May, earlier than the band head to the UK and Europe in June.
Among a collection of competition dates together with Pinkpop and Mad Cool, the band will then play two UK headline reveals – a London date on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 21 and a Glasgow present at Hampden Park (rescheduled from this summer time because of sickness) two days later.
Also supporting the band at choose dates of the tour will probably be St. Vincent, The Mars Volta, The Roots, Thundercat and City and Colour.
Tickets for all dates go on sale on Friday (December 9) at 10am native time. Buy UK tickets right here and purchase North American and European tickets right here.