"2 billion strong" - Rihanna reaches 2 billion views (in total) on YouTube

Just went onto YouTube and saw a message on the VeVo background thingy, it says;

"2 billion strong

Congrats to Rihanna! She's the first female artist to clock over 2 billion music video views on Vevo!"

I'm pretty shocked about this - I knew she was popular, but I honestly expected Lady GaGa or Beyonce to beat her to 2 billion. Lady GaGa reached 1 billion first - so it was naturally assumed she would reach 2 billion first.

Still, congrats. to her!

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...dez/Rhirhi.png

Proof^ :L

This is cute cos Gaga already did reach 2 billion lmao

Bieber did it first, then Gaga, then Rihanna.

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Originally Posted by Judas

This is cute cos Gaga already did reach 2 billion lmao

Bieber did it first, then Gaga, then Rihanna.

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Vevo lied to us? >;/.

That does seem a bit suspicious though...

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Originally Posted by Inexorably

Vevo lied to us? >;/.

That does seem a bit suspicious though...

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Rihanna's team would've paid for those banners, so either they were just misinformed or they're lying

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Originally Posted by Inexorably

Vevo lied to us? >;/.

That does seem a bit suspicious though...

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Rihanna is the first female, her team must still believe the GaGa rumours

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Originally Posted by Plebings

Rihanna is the first female, her team must still believe the GaGa rumours

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LMAOOO

Edited by Shar (Forum Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly, thanks!

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Originally Posted by Plebings

Rihanna is the first female, her team must still believe the GaGa rumours

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ROFL. Indeed.

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It's a shame that all three of them are complete and utter crap.

omg yes well done Rihanna - RIHANNANAVY FOR LIFE :love:

Yeah i remember Bieber was the first to reach 2 billion views on youtube.

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Originally Posted by Mathew

It's a shame that all three of them are complete and utter crap.

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pretty much this

It should be Beyonce

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Originally Posted by Judas

This is cute cos Gaga already did reach 2 billion lmao

Bieber did it first, then Gaga, then Rihanna.

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AGREED GAGA DID 1ST !!!!!! come on gaga

I would've thought GaGa would have reached it first (not sure if [@]@Judas[/@] was saying that). Anyway, congrats to her for reaching it! Doesn't really matter if she was first. :P

[@]@Judas[/@] [@]@McDonalds[/@] [@]@22andy223[/@]

Aha, I read the message again - and realised the strongest point in makes.... "Vevo". I think GaGa used her 'personal' account or one via her record company before she went Vevo? Which would explain why it says total views on 'vevo' specifically.

If that is the case... that can be very misleading ;/

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Originally Posted by Inexorably

[@]@Judas[/@] [@]@McDonalds[/@] [@]@22andy223

Aha, I read the message again - and realised the strongest point in makes.... "Vevo". I think GaGa used her 'personal' account or one via her record company before she went Vevo? Which would explain why it says total views on 'vevo' specifically.

If that is the case... that can be very misleading [/@];/

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Ohh right, that might be why. :P

I'm sure Gaga was after Rihanna as she has 400,000 less views than Rihanna. Oh well it doesn't really bother me :P

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Originally Posted by Inexorably

[@]@Judas[/@] [@]@McDonalds[/@] [@]@22andy223

Aha, I read the message again - and realised the strongest point in makes.... "Vevo". I think GaGa used her 'personal' account or one via her record company before she went Vevo? Which would explain why it says total views on 'vevo' specifically.

If that is the case... that can be very misleading [/@];/

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Oh I see. Some sites are reporting them just as "YouTube views" which is wrong, then...

When you think about it, it's not all that surprising seeing as Rihanna has been around far longer than Gaga and has several more hugely popular singles.