THE TELEGRAPH: Top 12 Most Popular Online Videos Ever

Assessing the total number of views for particular clips is a notoriously difficult task, with dozens of versions of the most popular videos appearing across many different sites.

We asked viral video experts Unruly Media to come up with a Top 12 most viewed list based on analysis of major sites.

Assessing the total number of views for particular clips is a notoriously difficult task, with dozens of versions of the most popular videos appearing across many different sites.We asked viral video experts Unruly Media to come up with a Top 12 most viewed list based on analysis of major sites.

Their league table shows that in little over a week the amateur Scottish singer has already become one of biggest web sensations in history, challenging established pop acts like Leona Lewis and Avril Lavigne and cult internet hit Evolution of Dance.

1) Evolution of Dance - 130,781,819 views

2) Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend - 119,147,269 views

3) Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist - 111,802,673 views

4) Charlie Bit My Finger - 93,843,443 views

5) Cut Chemist featuring Hymnal - What's the Altitude? - 93,592,917 views

6) Chris Brown - With You - 91,534,889 views

7) Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music - 86,953,000 views

8) Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love - 85,092,238 views

9) Hahaha (laughing baby) - 83,601,744 views

10) Paul Potts sings Nessum Dorma - 83,177,947 views

11) Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent - 80,242,967 views

12) Alicia Keys - No One - 79,206,505 views

View counts aggregated across major instances of the video on YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe and other video sharing sites. Views of responses, mash-ups, derivatives and related videos are excluded. Views of the video outside major video sharing sites are excluded, eg on news sites or video files forwarded by email.

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