MUMBAI: Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is officially register as the most popular artist on YouTube after becoming the first star to reach two billion video views.
Famecount.com – the social media statistics service states that the teen heartthrob has achieved the milestone over the weekend and now counts 2,004,247,332 views. The popstar has surpassed Paparazzi Queen Lady Gaga – who ranks at second position with 1.88bn YouTube views this year.
In the last month, the stars official YouTube channel received over 26m views for his new single â€?Mistletoe.’ Bieber also holds the world record for most popular single video on YouTube – Baby with almost 650m views to date.
According to Famecount’s ranking, the star has yet to achieve number one spot of â€?FameCount aggregated social media’ which has been retained by Lady Gaga – who remains the Queen of Twitter with over 15m followers, and also has more Facebook Fans.
Rihanna is the 3rd largest YouTube star with more than 1.7bn views and currently the fastest growing. In June this year Rihanna toppled Lady Gaga as number 1 female star on Facebook, although Eminem remains the reigning king of Facebook with 48.5m fans.