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"Rihanna is queen of the billionaires \u2014 in terms of YouTube views, that is.\nThe pop priestess' channel,\u00A0RihannaVEVO, became the first to exceed an aggregate of 5 billion views sometime in the past week or so,\u00A0according to\u00A0VidstatsX, which shows\u00A05,036,358,777 views at the time of writing.\nSee also: 20 Funniest YouTube Videos According to Reddit\nNo one is making a billion dollars from a YouTube channel anytime soon, but a billion views? That's been done a hundred times over. The number of YouTube-view \"billionaires\" recently topped 100, according to data supplied to\u00A0Mashable.\nBelieve it or not, the second-highest channel in views is Turkish music site MuYap, clocking in at 4,934,765,132. MuYap, which also acts as Turkey\u2019s recording industry society, loads its channel with goofy and obscure music videos that do particularly well in the U.S. \u2014 about 80% of the views on its 11,000-plus videos come from America.\nComing in third in the race to 5 billion is video game content cranker Machinima, which hustled a lot more to get to those 4,935,954,381 views. It has uploaded more than 24,000 videos, compared to Rihanna's 83. (That's not a typo; she's just that popular.)\nThough Rihanna's channel posts more than just videos \u2014 this video of the singer receiving an Icon Award more than six months ago is among the most recent \u2014 her official music videos drive the most traffic, like the video for \"Where Have You Been,\" which has been viewed more than 250 million times.\n\nMusicians have fared particularly well on YouTube since its launch nine years ago, with top 10 positions going to Justin Bieber (No. 4, with\u00A04.8 billion views), Psy (No. 6 at 3.62 billion),\u00A0Eminem (No. 7, with\u00A03.6 billion) and Katy Perry (No. 8 with\u00A03.2 billion).\nOnly two prominent native YouTube channels cracked the top 10 \u2014 Swedish video-game commentator PewDiePie, whose 4.5 billion views puts him at No. 5; and Smosh, the comedy duo of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla, whose channel stands at No. 9 with 3.2 billion.\nRounding out the top 10 is another video game channel, IGN, which boasts 3.2 billion views on its nearly 94,000 videos, the most of any channel in the top 10.\nThere are many ways to get to the top. The number of videos produced and subscribers varies wildly up and down the list of the top 100, with how-to network expertvillage topping all producers (by far) with nearly 140,000 posts to date. All those videos contribute to its\u00A02.95 billion views so far, placing them at No. 14.\nHow big of a deal is it to be in the billionaires' club?\nYouTube Space Los Angeles, the site's huge production facility in west LA, threw a party this spring for the Annoying Orange franchise, part of Collective Digital Studio, the multichannel network with over 600 YouTube channels. The Annoying Orange channel recently exceeded 2 billion views on YouTube.\u00A0Mashable spoke with its\u00A0creator Dane Boedigheimer and writer Spencer Grove about reaching the milestone, and what it means to be a YouTube \"billionaire.\"\n\n\n\n\u00A0\n\u00A0\n\n// "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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