It was clearly meant to be that Bebe Rexha’s 2017 megahit “Meant to Be,” featuring Florida Georgia Line, enters YouTube’s Billion Views Club.
“Meant to Be” is Florida Georgia Line’s first entry in the Billion Views Club, while Rexha scores her second after her feature credit on David Guetta’s 2014 hit “Hey Mama,” which also features Nicki Minaj and Afrojack.
Rexha’s country-pop crossover hit earned the pop star her career-first Grammy nominations in 2019 for best new artist and best country duo/group performance, the latter of which was also the country group’s first Grammy nod. The song spent 52 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 2 for both acts’ highest-charting song, and spent a record-breaking 50 weeks atop the Hot Country Songs chart.
The Sophie Muller-directed music video shows Rexha as a hitchhiker in the middle of a road, two garbage bags full of belongings in each hand, before she gets picked up in a stranger’s pickup truck. Starting anew, the “I’m a Mess” singer, now a waitress at a small diner, later catches Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley performing the song before they invite her onstage to join them.
So lay on back and relax, kick your pretty feet up and watch the “Meant to Be” music video all over again (or for the first time) below.
