Hot on YouTube: Avril Lavigne, Leona Lewis, Rihanna and Chris Brown…
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
It’s well-known that many of the most popular videos on YouTube are music videos – with the trend moving away from bedroom hairbrush-wailers towards official videos from signed artists.
ReadWriteWeb has been analysing the Top 10 All-Time Most Popular videos on YouTube, and says that six of them are music videos. Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend takes top spot with more than 103 million views, but is joined in the chart by Leona Lewis’ Bleeding Love, Rihanna’s Don’t Stop The Music, Chris Brown’s With You, Timbaland’s Apologize, and Alicia Keys’ No One.
Of course, the dominance of the chart by music videos will only fuel the debate over how these vids should be monetized, and what share of advertising revenue is justified. Equally interesting, though, is that many of these popular music videos have had the ‘embedding’ feature disabled, meaning they can’t be posted onto blogs and other websites.
