YouTube has became the biggest social network for videos and an important tool for the music industry. In fact, the vice president of this social network revealed that YouTube has paid out more than a billion dollars to the music industry over the last several years.
Video bloging social network started in 2005, and since then, YouTube has worked as a platform for new talents be discovered by major producer of the music industry.
Celebrities success is due YouTube, somehow. Recent biggest artists have become huge household names just by uploading a song, like Justin Bieber did, becoming a recognizable name in the music industry only with 19 years old. Discovered by talent manager Scooter Braun and singer Usher, this young artist has sold over 15 million albums and have over 40 milion followers on Twitter.
Justin Bieber at the beginning
Top 10 artists who were discovered on YouTube:
- Justing Bieber
- Austin Mahone
- Cody Simpson
- Timeflies
- Boyce Avenue
- Charice Pompengo
- Sam Tsui
- Greyson Chance
- Cimorelli
- Esmee Denters
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YouTube decided to publish the list with the top 10 more viewed music videos for 2013, starting with Psy’s Gentleman M/V, in the top 1 of the list, followed by two Miley Cyrus singles, Wrecking Ball and We Can’t Stop.
The top 10 music video 2013 list released by YouTube is:
- PSY – Gentleman M/V
- Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
- Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop
- Katy Perry – Roar
- Pink – Just Give Me a Reason ft, Nate Ruess
- Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell
- Rihanna – Stay ft. Mikky Ekko
- Naughty Boy – La La La ft. Sam Smith
- Selena Gomez – Come & Get it
- Avicci – Wake Me Up
Eduardo Jose Fernandez Pineda 