55th Annual GRAMMY Awards and YouTube™ popularity stats (Feb 2013) (Photos)

Less than 10 hours left till 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony starts at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Following is the list of nominees included in 3 quintessentially important categories, namely: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year (full list of nominees can be found at [1]):

1. Record Of The Year

Lonely Boy | The Black Keys
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) | Kelly Clarkson
We Are Young | Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
Somebody That I Used To Know | Gotye featuring Kimbra
Thinkin Bout You | Frank Ocean
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Taylor Swift

View slideshow: YouTube popularity stats, Feb-2013

2. Album Of The Year

El Camino | The Black Keys
Some Nights | Fun.
Babel | Mumford & Sons
Channel Orange | Frank Ocean
Blunderbuss | Jack White

3. Song Of The Year

The A Team | Ed Sheeran, songwriter (Ed Sheeran)
Adorn | Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
Call Me Maybe | Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen)
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) | Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly Clarkson)
We Are Young | Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Fun. Featuring Janelle Monáe)

Even though "it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" (as once said by Yogi Berra), but quite possibly the “Music’s Biggest Night” could well be Fun. (w/capital “F” indicating a band name). The band is in all 3 major category nominees’ list, and is also nominated for the “Best New Artist”, “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance”, “Best Pop Vocal Album” (totaling 6 nominations). Frank Ocean is another notable New Artist nominated for several categories including two of the Top-3 listed above.

YouTube Top20 of all times (as of Feb 1, 2013)

Following is YouTube Top-20 most popular videos (mostly music videos) of all time as of Feb-1-2013

# Views Performer-Title
1 1,250,145,678 PSY-GANGNAM STYLE
2 826,417,812 Justin Bieber-Baby
3 644,598,747 Jennifer Lopez-On The Floor
4 535,252,323 Eminem-Love The Way You Lie
5 518,108,885 LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem
6 509,995,028 "Charlie"-Charlie bit my finger - again!
7 507,885,916 Shakira-Waka Waka (2010 FIFA)
8 506,557,883 Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
9 477,993,888 Michel Teló-Ai Se Eu Te Pego
10 421,885,235 Don Omar-Danza Kuduro
11 395,161,917 Carly Rae Jepsen-Call Me Maybe
12 387,828,425 Eminem-Not Afraid
13 383,525,301 Pitbull-Rain Over Me ft. Marc Anthony
14 373,161,155 Adele-Rolling In The Deep
15 371,201,048 Gotye-Somebody That I Used To Know
16 365,407,209 Bruno Mars-The Lazy Song
17 356,329,000 Justin Bieber-Never Say Never
18 348,689,616 Katy Perry-Firework
19 325,935,630 One Direction-What Makes You Beautiful
20 317,406,289 MIley Cyrus-Party In The U.S.A.

GRAMMY nominees vs. YouTube Top-20 stats

Notably, only 2 music videos are both present in current YouTube Top-20 and 55th GRAMMY Top-3 category nominee lists (see the following):

# Views Performer-Title
11 395,161,917 Carly Rae Jepsen-Call Me Maybe
15 371,201,048 Gotye-Somebody That I Used To Know

YouTube Top5 of all times

1. PSY “Gangnam Style” music video is an absolute YouTube popularity champion totaling more than 1.25 GigaViews (prefix Giga stands for Billion), thus greatly exceeding the entire population of the North America and Europe combined [2]; the number also exceeds 50% of the global Internet users’ base (about 2.267 billion as per [3]).

2. Justin Bieber in the last several months lost his long-lasting title of the most popular entertainer on the planet and currently is positioned as #2 (based on YouTube stats). His musical video clip "Baby" added another about 9 million views within last month, currently totaling approximately 826 MegaViews. This stratospheric popularity index far exceeds the entire population of USA, Canada [2] and Mexico combined.

3. “On The Floor” performed by Jennifer Lopez is going figuratively through the roof currently accounted for more than 644 MegaViews, also outnumbering the entire population of North America.

4. Eminem and Rihanna’s collaborative song “Love The Way You Lie” attracted more than 535 MegaViews.

5. LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem , the last music video in this Top5 club is credited with approximately 518 MegaViews, crossing the psychologically-important 0.5GViews mark.

The totals of views/songs per 10 individual performers in YouTube Top100

Performer Total Views Songs
Justin Bieber 2,984,983,921 13
Rihanna 2,575,183,797 17
Eminem 1,838,381,536 12
Lady Gaga 1,791,014,990 12
PSY 1,514,306,667 2
Katy Perry 1,429,506,307 9
Shakira 1,237,485,841 8
David Guetta 1,211,155,310 11
Pitbull 1,198,182,087 5
Bruno Mars 1,150,338,642 5

GRAMMY-2013 nomination surprises

55th GRAMMY nomination list came out with several surprise omissions, already noted and discussed by online communities. Starting with the notable absence of arguably the most popular entertainer on the planet, Justin Bieber; as per the latest YouTube stats (see the table above and attached charts), his 13 songs included in Top100 list are totaling about 3 GigaViews (prefix Giga stands for Billion), thus exceeding the overall Internet user base [3]. Also, no ride (metaphorically) for our famous New Yorker Lana Del Rey, even though her recent music video hit “Ride” attracted more than 22 million viewers on YouTube in about 4 months since release; also relevant to mention her rather popular hits released in 2012, like: “Born to Die” reaching 94 million views count, “Video Games” (34 MViews), “Summertime Madness” (42 MViews) and “Blue Jeans” (15 MViews). Nicki Minaj GRAMMY-2013 snub is serving as another topical umbrella for multiple online discussions, as well as omission of Christina Aguilera and English-Irish pop-band "One Direction" from the nominees list [5].

Afterword

In YouTube Top20 most popular items of all times, quite notably, 19 of them represent music-video genre and only one (namely “Charlie bit my finger - again!”) represents the Internet humor video.

The entrance level to the YouTube Top10 popularity club is raised to almost 421 MViews; for YouTube Top20 and Top100 the numbers are about 317 MViews and 147 MViews, correspondingly.

The grand total number of views calculated for Top100 most popular YouTube videos currently exceeds 25.6 GigaViews, which is more than 3 times the entire human population of the planet.

Top100 of 2012 music videos on WebInfoCentral

Top-100 music videos of 2012 are included in a playlist currently selected and posted on WebInfoCentral.com [4]

Disclaimer: All data in this article is provided on “AS IS” basis without warranty of any kind.

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