Rick has rolled into YouTube’s billion-views club. The official video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” — uploaded almost 12 years ago — surpassed 1 billion lifetime views on ...

Rick Astley performs on stage at the Hit Factory Live: Christmas Cracker at 02 Arena on December 21, 2012 in London, England. Rick Astley’s debut song, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” has reached more than ...

A remaster of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" went viral. The video, uploaded to the YouTube channel Revideo, is in 4K at 60-frames-per-second. "Rickrolling" is a legendary meme format, and ...

Last week, we explored the origin of the “Rick Roll,” a meme that evolved from Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Since the music video resurfaced as the meme in 2007, the ...

A collection of human memes, many of whom end up as songs on YouTube, including Antoine Dodson, musician Rick Astley, and the person known as Double Rainbow Guy, are making a movie. By Associated ...

Move over, Chronicles of Narnia, there’s a new dreamworld of magic in town. That’s right. Andrew Fischer, CEO of Colorado-based marketing company NURV, has recruited a stellar cast of Meme-lebrities, ...

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 ...