Justin Bieber And Rihanna Battle For YouTube Supremacy
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Written by Brad Norris
Justin Bieber and Rihanna are locked in a battle to become the most viewed person on YouTube. Rihanna snatched the title from Bieber just three weeks ago but her success was short-lived as the ‘Baby’ singer has now regained his YouTube crown, according to Starcount.com's social media tracker. With over 3.5 billion views on his main channel (JustinBieberVEVO) Bieber passed Rihanna’s 3.4 billion views
(RihannaVEVO) over the weekend.
It was Lady Gaga who first reached 1 billion views in October 2010, but the Beliebers pushed Bieber to the top shortly after - in November 2010 - and helped the Canadian star become first to 2 billion and 3 billion view milestones on YouTube. Gaga has now slipped into fourth place behind Eminem in the ranking of top artists on YouTube.
However, the Beliebers cannot yet relax, as Rihanna is in hot pursuit - gaining 6 million YouTube views, compared to Bieber’s 4 million over the last day. The Canadian teenager will also be looking over his shoulder at PSY - whose 'Gangnam Style' is the most popular individual YouTube video in history with 1.4 billion views, and whose channel now has 2 billion views in total.
Across social media as whole, Bieber and Rihanna are also vying for total supremacy, according to Starcount's aggregated chart of the most popular social stars. While Rihanna claims the top spot on Facebook with 67 million fans, Justin Bieber commands a highly engaged army of 36 million Twitter followers - and narrowly clinches the overall social media crown, for now. Starcount.com will be closely watching as the two stars continue to battle it out.
Top 10 Most Viewed Artists on YouTube are as follows:
Justin Bieber (JustinBieberVEVO) - 3,520,426,883
Rihanna (RihannaVEVO) - 3,401,883,870
Eminem (EminemVEVO) - 2,290,773,706
Lady Gaga (LadyGagaVEVO) - 2,179,860,219
PSY (officialpsy) - 2,073,173,676
Shakira (shakiraVEVO) - 1,911,962,769
Beyonce (beyonceVEVO) - 1,780,402,638
Chris Brown (ChrisBrownVEVO) - 1,516,922,667
The Black Eyed Peas (BlackEyedPeasVEVO) - 1,490,270,139
Jennifer Lopez (JenniferLopezVEVO) - 1,482,012,369
Rihanna returns to the UK this summer for a stadium tour.
Mon June 10th 2013 - Millenium Stadium, Cardiff
Wed June 12th 2013 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
Thu June 13th 2013 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
Sat June 15th 2013 - Twickenham Stadium, London
Sun June 16th 2013 - Twickenham Stadium, London
Mon June 17th 2013 - LG Arena, Birmingham
Thu June 20th 2013 - Stadium Of Light, Sunderland
Fri June 21st 2013 - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Mon July 15th 2013 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
Tue July 16th 2013 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
Thu July 18th 2013 - LG Arena, Birmingham
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