Gentleman reached 100 million views on April 17, just four days after its release. It became the fastest music video to reach 100 million, beating "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga, and tied with the Russian Meteor video for the fastest overall video to reach 100 million. It became the fastest video to reach 200 million views. It reached 300 million views in 613 hours (25.5 days), and 400 million views in 55 days. It reached 500 million views on July 31, 110 days after its release. All these records were later surpassed by Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do". As of April 2020, it has received over 1.3 billion views.