How to orderby LikesCount when using Rest API to fetch items

Question

I need to retrieve all the posts from the "Posts" list in a Sharepoint Blog site and sort the results depending on the "NumberofLikes". How can i achieve this?

 

&$orderby=LikesCount desc

 

does not work with Rest API url. How can i sort the items based on the number of likes. How can i achieve it?