Eminem reaches billion views on YouTube

Eminem has today recorded his billionth view on video sharing site YouTube, according to Famecount.com, the social media statistics service. At 4pm GMT on Monday 21st February, Eminem's channel had received 1,000,163,659 views, after reaching its billionth view shortly earlier.

The US rapper is only the third individual in history to make this key digital milestone. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber each achieved 1bn views in a close fought race at the end of last year. Since overtaking Lady Gaga at the end of last year, Justin Bieber remains the world's top YouTube star with over 1.3bn views on his main official YouTube channel.

Eminem, who has seen his social media fame rocket following the release of Recovery last year, remains the third most popular star on YouTube, just ahead of Rihanna ' who herself is set to break the billion view milestone within the next two weeks. Eminem is also the second most popular living star in Facebook, where he is in currently battling to dethrone Lady Gaga. However, Lady Gaga retains a clear lead over all rivals on Twitter.

Top Music stars on YouTube *

1 JustinBieberVEVO
1,329,100,033

2 LadyGagaVEVO
1,189,896,437

3 EminemVEVO
1,000,163,659

4 RihannaVEVO
978,517,053

5 ShakiraVEVO
680,449,192