It's official: Justin Bieber's "Baby" is the most-watched music video on YouTube of 2010!

Production values, or the fact it's a cheesy dance video set in a bowling alley be damned, Canadians watched Justin Bieber's "Baby" more than any other music video on YouTube this year. And because 408,641,194 (...195, 196, 197) views isn't enough for pop's reigning elf, the lords of YouTube have made re-watching the clip even easier. YouTube has just launched a special site called Rewind, which features what we all love most at this time of year: endless lists.

Bieber appears three times on the Top 10 list of Canadians' most-watched music videos -- four if you stretch things to count his participation in that Young Artists for Haiti single, "Wavin' Flag." (You can check out the top 10 -- with embedded video -- below this blurb.)

But The Bieb's tiny-fisted stranglehold on the U.S. Top 10 is even tighter. The Stratford-born Bieber's "Baby" also appears on the U.S. list in the No. 1 slot, but Biebz scores four videos on that set of rankings.

There's plenty of overlap between what Canadian and U.S. YouTube users were watching in 2010, though (i.e. Bieber, Bieber and Bieber). Both Top 10s feature the same two Eminem hits ("Not Afraid," "Love the Way You Lie") as well as videos from Shakira ("Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)") and Rihanna ("Rude Boy"). However, Canadians apparently don't hit refresh on Lady Gaga videos with quite the same fervency as our neighbours. Though she was one of the most ubiquitous figures of 2010, and features with two videos -- "Alejandro" and "Telephone" -- on the U.S. Top 10, Lady Gaga doesn't rate on the Canadian list. Instead, we were watching videos by Usher ("OMG") and Katy Perry ("California Gurls"). If you don't stand at attention and sing "O Canada" the next time you see her lactate whipped cream, a baby seal will die.

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Check out the US list below:

1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris
2. Shakira ft. Freshlyground – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Song)
3. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna
4. Eminem – Not Afraid
5. Rihanna – Rude Boy
6. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith
7. Justin Bieber – Never Let You Go
8. Lady Gaga – Alejandro
9. Justin Bieber – Somebody To Love Remix ft. Usher
10. Lady Gaga – Telephone ft. Beyonce

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Justin Bieber Swears Off YouTube For Facebook

Over the past weekend, Internet pop sensation Justin Bieber went to upload the music video of his new song called “Pray” to his personal YouTube site. He was in for a rude surprise: YouTube automatically blocked his video upload on “copyright grounds” that the video contained content from Universal Music Group (UMG), parent company to Bieber’s record label, Island Def Jam records.

“yo youtube…how u gonna block my own song?!?!?!” wrote an outraged Bieber on his Twitter account. In another Twitter update, he wrote, “dear youtube…we started this journey and now u r cheatin on me with this vevo chica…i see how it is…i will be over here with facebook [sic].” (Vevo is the music video website responsible for Bieber’s official YouTube syndication, and is a joint venture between music giants Sony Music Entertainment, UMG and Abu Dhabi Media.)

In response, YouTube wrote back to Bieber on its Twitter account, “sorry about the upload pain around ‘Pray’. That’s between you and your label but we love you [both] so let’s figure this out!”

But the damage was done. Frustrated with the Google-owned video site, Bieber instead uploaded his video using Facebook’s video app onto his Facebook page. “no one keeps my music from my fans. nobody,” he wrote on Twitter.

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WOW. WOW. WOW

so i wake up today to almost 15 million on facebook, Over a BILLION VIEWS on YOUTUBE, and....

6 MILLION OF THE GREATEST FANS ON EARTH ON TWITTER!!!! THANK U. This is crazy...My Hometown only has 30,000 people total! NUTS

Justin Bieber

Congrats JB. You seriously have the most devoted fans and we're glad more and more people are catching the fever each day.

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Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are both approaching a major milestone of the new music industry: one billion all-time YouTube views.

Lady Gaga should pass one billion views around October 20 if she continues on her current pace, according to David Birch, communications director at TubeMogul. During September, she averaged almost 1.8 million views per day.

Birch says Bieber will surpass the 1 billion views milestone around November 1 if he keeps up his current pace. During September, Bieber's videos were viewed about 3.7 million times per day.

After Lady Gaga and Bieber, the next closest artist is Michael Jackson at around 600 million views, says Birch.

Even though Lady Gaga will be the first to the one billion mark, TubeMogul data shows that lately Bieber has been the hotter of the two and has been YouTube's most-viewed music artist. From July 1 to September 28, according to TubeMogul data supplied to Billboard, Bieber averaged 3.98 million daily views to Lady Gaga's 2.04 million views per day.

Bieber has been hot since winter. Since February 28, Bieber has averaged 3.83 million daily views while Lady Gaga has averaged 2.53 million. To put their numbers in perspective, Kanye West has averaged 271,000 daily views in that time period.

But what really stands out is the consistent performance of Bieber's videos. In April, TubeMogul began "Most Viral Videos of the Month" to highlight the most-viewed videos -- including unofficial versions -- in a given month. Nearly 9 in 10 of all videos to make the list have been music videos, and Justin Bieber has been the one constant month after month. He had four of the top 10 videos of the month from April through August.

Both artists have many of YouTube's all-time most-viewed videos. Bieber's "Baby" is YouTube's most-watched video of all time with 345 million views. His "Never Let You Go" is No. 22 with 92 million views while "Never Say Never" is No. 28 with 86 million views.

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Guys,

There is a scheduled attack on Justin's BABY music video on YouTube tomorrow, Sept 1. The haters have planned to push the number of dislikes on the video above the number of likes and also leave nasty comments. If they manage to push the dislikes over the likes then this will make headlines because BABY is the most viewed video ever on Youtube.



Not only would this look bad for Justin himself but it looks bad for us too as Beliebers. This is something we can do something about so please go on the BABY video page and click on the Like button, reload and click it again. Do it now and do it often to prevent the haters from achieving their goal. And please, if you own a JB fansite, help spread the word and get your visitors to do the same.

They are already so close. They only need another 20, 000 clicks.

Go now to the BABY music video and click on the like button.
And tweet this to your followers.


Thanks to Peta Marie for the heads up.

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With nearly 750,000,000 upload views in less than one year, JustinBieberVEVO has become one of YouTube's most viewed and controversial channels. Tween and teen girls have fallen head over heels for the teenage heartthrob and have helped Bieber establish a big presence in pop music despite limited radio airplay.

His fans have also helped him earn YouTube's most viewed video. After surpassing Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video in July, Justin Bieber has recently surpassed 300,000,000 views with his video "Baby." Having been out approximately six months, "Baby" has accumulated an average of 50,000,000 views each month, over 1.5 million daily views

Justin Bieber's views can't be entirely credited to his fans. Currently, "Baby" has a ratio of 268,329 likes to 211,900 dislikes. Baby has a sizable advantage as YouTube's most viewed video, but it's entirely possible that the dislikes on the video could surpass the likes within the upcoming months. The comments section of "Baby" and other Justin Bieber videos are also bombarded with negative feedback from critics.

Justin Bieber hasn't been the most successful artist in terms of airplay and popularity. However, add up all the support he gets from his fans, the verbal hatred he receives from critics who loathe what he has contributed to the music industry, and the lack of indifference, Justin Bieber has become one of America's most controversial and recognized stars.

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With 245,336,730 views, BABY is now officially the

MOST VIEWED VIDEO OF ALL TIME

Honors for this video (6)
#4 - Most Discussed (All Time))
#1 - Most Discussed (All Time)) - Music
#1 - Most Viewed (All Time))
#1 - Most Viewed (All Time)) - Music
#13 - Top Favorited (All Time))
#6 - Top Favorited (All Time)) - Music

Let's see:
 1) Most Searched on the Internet: Lady Gaga Justin Drew Bieber
 2) Most Viewed Video of All Time on Youtube: Lady Gaga Justin Drew Bieber
 3) Most Followed Person on Twitter: Britney Spears (5,339,640 and JB has 3,711,562)

2 down and 1 more to go before Justin can officially be proclaimed as the undisputed KING OF THE INTERNET.

Congratulations to JB for all your success. We'll be there with you every step of the way.

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Earlier today Justin Bieber's "Baby" music video featuring Ludacris overtook Lady GaGa's "Bad Romance" to become the all time most viewed video on Youtube. Before long, Lady GaGa fans went on the offensive and pushed her back into the number one position. GaGa's little monsters have also defaced the comments section on Justin Bieber's video. You'll have to go there to see it for yourself, many of the comments are too explicit to repeat here. The general theme seems to be that Justin Bieber is a talentless homosexual.

At the time of writing, Lady GaGa's video had 245,092,155 views. Bieber's "Baby" video had a pathetic 245,074,968 views. If you want to participate in the battle for #1, then watch the videos below. One helpful Lady GaGa fan suggests "if you ever get tired of watching just mute it and keep refreshing while you do other things :)"

DAILY FILL

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A few months ago, Lady Gaga's video for "Bad Romance" surpassed "Charlie Bit my Finger...Again!" as the most viewed YouTube video of all-time. As of May 12, 2010 Lady Gaga had amassed 202,638,903 views in approximately six months. It didn't look like anything could stop it.

It still doesn't appear to be stopped, but can it be topped?

As of June 24th, Justin Bieber's "Baby" video surpassed 211,000,000 views. This makes it the second most viewed YouTube video of all-time. "Bad Romance" remains in the lead with just over 233,000,000 views.

It sounds like a major discrepancy, but take note that "Baby" from Justin Bieber has only been available on YouTube for 4 months in comparison to "Bad Romance" being out 7 months. On May 12th, "Baby had only accumulated 132,580,445 views. Within 6 weeks, Justin Bieber has closed the gap from approximately 70 million to 20 million.

Comments on Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video already show fans worrying about Bieber surpassing her in the upcoming months. Comments on Justin Bieber's video could not be retrieved.

There are some interesting notes about this fight. Regular YouTube users are fond of users that invade other videos as trolls. Trolls barge into videos they dislike in order to ridicule the artists and fans who made or enjoy the work.

Usually, trolls aren't welcomed. In this case, any troll that can't resist his or her urges to trespass unto their competition's video will be giving them views. A fan of "Bad Romance" that trolls over to "Baby" is helping Bieber out by posting comments on his video, giving it more views.

Can "Bad Romance" maintain its role as YouTube's most viewed video of all-time? Will "Baby" continue its surge toward the top, effectively ending human sanity?

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A month ago I wrote: 
JB's BABY will become the most watched YouTube video of all time by end of 2010

ps. Did you know Lady Gaga's manager is also managing Greyson Chance?

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After reading the No Country More Interested In Justin Bieber Than The Philippines article I was curious to see which is the currently Most Viewed YouTube Video of All Time since the article said BABY is now #3. And guess what? It happens to be Lady Gaga's BAD ROMANCE which explains why her manager believes that YouTube is the Future, MySpace is the Past.

MOST VIEWED VIDEOS OF ALL TIME
1. BAD ROMANCE 2.15 million views (Nov 23, 2009)
2. CHARLIE BIT MY FINGER 1.95 million views
3. BABY 1.66 million views (Feb 8, 2010)

So I wanted to see if JB could catch up to Lady Gaga and surpass her to become the most viewed of all time. Using a spreadsheet, I plugged in the numbers and made a graph. And below is that graph.

As you can see, BABY (orange) is increasing much faster than BAD ROMANCE (red) in a shorter amount of time. If you go look at the graphs on YouTube for each video, you can see that BAD ROMANCE is starting to level off while BABY keeps getting more and more popular each day.

From projections I predict BABY should become the Most Viewed YouTube Video of All Time by the end of 2010. Let's see if I am right.  ;-)

See you guys at the end of the year (or maybe even earlier.)

-JBShrine

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The managers of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber say they now focus their energies on YouTube and believe MySpace is finished as a vehicle to promote music. Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter says he will now specifically "create music videos for YouTube". Carter's statement breaks from tradition because music videos have historically targeted MTV and foreign markets.

Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun told the audience at the TechCrunch conference that Bieber's career is typical of the way YouTube is shaping music. Bieber was discovered on YouTube and the strategy to promote him centred around creating more online content. Bieber's videos hit 55m views before he was signed by Universal Music. Braun says the process took so long because record companies thought that "without a TV show, you can't break a teenage star".

Carter points out that Lady Gaga began her career via MySpace four years ago, but Braun quickly added that "nobody does MySpace anymore". Both managers agree Twitter is a vital promotional tool because it helps break down barriers between the artists and fans.

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Justin will be releasing his song “Never Let You Go” on iTunes in just 6 days! He Tweeted:

“so i got some NEWS….BIG NEWS…
Its only 5 days until my Bday, but now its only six days until I release a new song off of MY WORLD 2.0 on ITUNES!! Wanna know which song??
NEXT TUESDAY after my bday (help BABY get to #1 for my bday!! lol) I will release “NEVER LET YOU GO” finally on ITUNES from MY WORLD 2.0!!!”

Why not "Pick Me"? That's becoming my favorite song.

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French fans are the best. I love this video.

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We were the ONLY magazines that got to hang out with Justin Bieber when he acted as principal for the day at Northview High School in Covina, CA! We got to follow him around and see how Justin Bieber would run a school if he were in charge! Watch the video to see the rules that Justin made and to catch his performance for the students! (bopandtigerbeat.com)

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A mother in Miami gets the face of a local radio dj tattooed on her bum in order to win tickets for her daughter to meet Justin Bieber in person.

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