Justin Bieber breaks YouTube record
(CBS) Justin Bieber has set a YouTube record.
The 17-year-old singer is the first artist to reach 2 billion views on his official YouTube channel.
According to social media monitoring site Famecount, Bieber has amassed more than 2.5 billion views as of Tuesday morning. Ninety-five million of those views are from the past month.
In October 2010, Lady Gaga became the first artist to hit the 1 billion mark. She now sits behind Bieber with more than 1.8 billion views.
However, Gaga still reigns supreme on Twitter: She hit 15 million followers last week, and is the first Twitter user to reach the milestone. Bieber has almost 14 million followers.
