‘Frozen’ song tops most-watched list

A singing priest, a spider dog, and an ice bucket challenge gone wrong — no, it’s not the intro to one of the strangest novels ever; these are the subjects of this year’s most popular YouTube videos.

Fr Ray Kelly became a social media sensation when his version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ went viral. When he performed the song at a wedding, the Westmeath priest had no idea it would be viewed more than 34m times only four weeks later.