Most watched vids and listened-to songs in 2009

Like Spotify, YouTube and Last.fm have published their annual charts showing which artists were the most popular in 2009.

Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent topped YouTube’s overall chart with more than 120 million views.

For music videos, Pitbull’s I Know You Want Me scored 82 million views, followed by two Miley Cyrus videos.

Most Watched YouTube videos (Global)

1. Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent (120+ million views)

2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)

3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)

4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)

5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)

Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)

1. Pitbull “I Know You Want Me” (82+ million views)

2. Miley Cyrus “The Climb” (64+ million views)

3. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (54+ million views)

4. The Lonely Island “I’m On a Boat” (48+ million views)

5. Keri Hilson “Knock You Down” (35+ million views)

On Last.fm, Lady GaGa’s album The Fame came out the starting blocks 18.5 million times, followed by The Killers’ Day & Age – 12.5m and Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You -10.5m.

Most Scrobbled Artists on Last.fm

1) Lady GaGa, The Fame, 18.5m

2) The Killers, Day & Age, 12.5m

3) Lily Allen, It’s Not Me, It’s You, 10.5m

4) The Prodigy, Invaders Must Die, 8.9m

5) Franz Ferdinand, Tonight, 8.8m

6) Beyoncé, I am… Sasha Fierce, 8.6m

7) Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 7.6m

8 ) Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown, 7.6m

9) Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz, 6.9m

10) Kanye West, 808s & Heartbreak, 6.6m

2 Comments

eatin

Posted December 24, 2009 at 5:35 PM

Thank you I had a a great read

Taps Ammons

Posted March 14, 2010 at 7:32 PM

Susan Boyle is an incredibly talented lady who’s been subjected to considerable ridicule in the media. IMHO she deserves every bit of success that she is having.