New York Post

Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hits a billion YouTube views

Rick Astley fans — and haters — are never gonna give up watching his hit song on YouTube, which just surpassed 1 billion views. The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up,” which was released 34 ...
American Songwriter

35 Years Later Rick Astleys’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” is Stronger Than Ever

Today, July 27, Rick Astley’s signature song “Never Gonna Give You Up” turns 35. And just like its lyrics—Never gonna give you up/ Never gonna let you down/ Never gonna run around and desert you—the ...
Stereogum

The Number Ones: Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The internet has ...
Yahoo

‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ Rick-Rolls Past 1 Billion YouTube Views

We’re never gonna give YOU up, Rick Astley. The “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video has passed 1 billion views on YouTube. The video reached the milestone on Wednesday, almost 12 years after its ...
The Spokesman-Review

Never gonna give them up: You know these hits

It’s time to queue up your playlists as New Kids on the Block’s Mixtape tour brings the boyband to Spokane Arena on Monday night with Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley and En Vogue. Sure, Astley was 21 years ...
New York Post

Rick Astley ‘grateful’ for twisted success of ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’

NEW YORK — How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously. “Listen, let’s face it, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has sort of ...
Yahoo

Rick Astley: I’ve sung Never Gonna Give You Up a million times, but I don’t ever go ‘oh this s--t again’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musician Rick Astley got his big break after Pete Waterman saw him singing at a working men’s club in Warrington and signed him on ...
American Songwriter

Rick Astley Recreates “Never Gonna Give You Up” Video 35 Years Later

It took 35 years, but Rick Astley has recreated the iconic video for his 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Produced for CSAA Insurance Group, the new “Never Gonna Give You Up” video runs one minute ...
Hosted on MSN

Rick Astley's 1987 hit 'Never Gonna Give You Up' gets 1 billion Spotify streams: He's less famous now but happier, he says

Rick Astley was just 21 years old when he recorded his 1987 hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up." It spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and charted for 24 more weeks. At age 27, he retired ...
Gizmodo

‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ in 4K Is an Eye-Melting Way to Rickroll Someone

As powerful workstations slowly but surely work to remaster all the world’s old film and video footage to higher resolutions and frame rates using machine learning techniques, you’d assume that one ...
CNN

Rick Astley celebrates ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ turning 35

Thirty-five years ago Wednesday, the journey began that has blessed us with one of the best things the internet ever birthed. Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up” was released on this day in ...