The 20 Most Watched Artists Online

We're now beginning to see some interesting music industry numbers for 2013 become available, and some of the most interesting is the artists that were most watched via online video services like Vevo, YouTube, etc. The chart below has a number of surprises, including K-Pop star PSY leading the pack at more than 2.2 billion views.

Artists with American top 10 hits are overwhelmingly present on the chart, with the exception of Gummibar (children's music) and Super Junior M (a K-Pop boy band). Electronic music is also present, represented by David Guetta, Avicii and Skrillex.

Still, after looking at the chart, one has to wonder - which came first, the video views or the top 10 airplay?

rank	artists	est. plays
musicmetric.com
1	PSY	2,211,525,973
2	Bruno Mars	1,998,568,878
3	Rihanna	1,562,276,049
4	One Direction	1,543,221,692
5	Justin Bieber	1,226,750,959
6	Gummibär	1,130,446,514
7	Miley Cyrus	1,078,063,309
8	Nicki Minaj	1,058,762,304
9	Eminem	921,595,163
10	Ryan Lewis	876,041,240
11	Super Junior-M	875,604,056
12	Pitbull	851,054,277
13	Katy Perry	805,537,588
14	David Guetta	798,744,318
15	will.i.am	746,419,305
16	Skrillex	679,730,499
17	Avicii	652,465,634
18	Ne-Yo	642,956,631
19	Chris Brown	634,537,325
20	Drake	601,346,518

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