Beyonce's Coachella 2018 Performance Broke A Major YouTube Viewing Record

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Beyoncé's Coachella performance broke a major viewing record on YouTube during its live stream on Saturday, April 14. Coachella was reportedly the festival's biggest to date, bringing over 41 million live views from fans in 232 countries over the weekend. Beyoncé's Saturday stage show alone garnered 458K simultaneous viewers around the world, making her awe-inspiring presentation the most viewed Coachella performance of all time, as well as the most viewed live music festival ever on YouTube.

Overall, Bey helped Coachella have its biggest YouTube numbers of all time. This year, the fest earned 43.1 million views and streams from across the globe, the most of any live festival in YouTube history.

Mrs. Carter also gave Twitter traction. "Beychella" was reportedly mentioned about 2.2 million times on Twitter. The social media platform also included the highest tweets per minute near the end of her set, according to Billboard. This is all the more impressive since Beyoncé isn't even an active Twitter user, with her last post coming in June of 2017.

Queen Bey is using the HBCU-inspired performance to do good. Following her show-stopping set, the philanthropist announced a $100,000 Homecoming Scholars Award program for HBCU students. Bey will be back in Indio, Calif. on Saturday (April 21) for Weekend 2 of Coachella.