From Rant to Riches: Angry student tops the list of most watched YouTube videos of 2010
A student's video rant over an attack on his sister has become YouTube's most-watched video of the year.
Antoine Dodson, who lived in the impoverished neighbourhood of Lincoln Park in Alabama, unleashed an angry, but comical tirade at a local news reporter which has since been turned into a song by a New York duo.
Musicians Evan and Michael Gregory transformed Dodson's words into an auto-tuned song, 'Bed Intruder' which has received a total of 61 million hits.
Scroll down to watch the 'Antoine Dodson' video as well as the others that made the top 10 list
Rags to riches: A song based on Antoine Dodson's furious TV interview became the internet's most viewed video in 2010
The power of YouTube: Dodson has earned several lucrative advertising offers and has bought a house which he has moved his family into from the run down neighbourhood they lived in
The song broke into the top 25 iTunes singles of the week with the Gregorys and Dodson splitting the revenue from the track 50/50.
Reaction to the video has earned the flamboyant 24-year-old a deal with computer giant Apple, as well as countless other lucrative advertising offers.
The internet star's official website also calls on people to 'Help the Dodson family out' by donating money to their cause.
Fourth place: A video from the 'Annoying Orange' series had 'talking
fruits' reenacting the Budweiser 'Wassup' commercial that aired during the
2000 SuperBowl
His newly found fame and fortune has enabled Dodson to move his family out of the run down neighbourhood they were in and buy a new home for his sister and her children.
'Blessings come in disguise,' Mr Dodson said.
He also put up for sale a Halloween costume of the outfit he was wearing when he was first interviewed which promptly sold out.
YouTube separated commercial music videos from their top-10 list.Â
Man on a horse: The popular Old Spice commercial that captivated viewers this year came in fifth place
Otherwise, all the top 10 videos would have been by either Justin Bieber, Shakira, Eminem, Rihanna or Lady Gaga. With more than 406 million views, Bieber's video for 'Baby' trumped all others.
The second most-watched video was a made-for-YouTube riff: a parody of Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' by the musical sketch web series Key of Awesome.
More than 50.6 million have watched the mock version of the popular pop song.
Bieber fever: This 3-year-old girl hysterically cried at not being able to see teen heartthrob Justin Bieber but was surprised on Jimmy Kimmel's show with a visit from her idol
In the third most-watched video, a potential new pop star was born. In it, 13-year-old Greyson Chance (who has been compared to Bieber) sings Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi' while playing piano at a sixth-grade music recital.
His female classmates looked on in awe at their new heartthrob as he stunned them with his rendition of the 2009 hit. A teacher testified afterwards: 'In my opinion, he just taught Lady Gaga a lesson'.
Fourth place is a video from the 'Annoying Orange' series where 'talking fruits' reenact the Budweiser 'Wassup' commercial that aired during the 2000 SuperBowl - but with a clever but sinister twist halfway through.
Top 10 YouTube videos (Scroll down to watch every video on the list)
 1. BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)
2. TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke - Key of Awe$ome #13
3. Greyson Chance Singing Paparazzi
4. Annoying Orange Wazzup
5. Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
6. Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10
7. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version
8. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE - Trailer
9. Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan
10. Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome
The popular Old Spice commercial that captivated viewers this year
came in fifth. It didn't hurt that it involved a half naked man on a
horse.
Meanwhile, a hysterical man's description of a double rainbow sighting had many
viewers wandering what the man had possibly ingested that made him so
happy. This sixth place video was taken at Yosemitebear Mountain.
OK Go's video to 'This Too Shall Pass' is a fascinating visual
starting off with a domino effect but leading to a complicated Rube
Goldberg assemblage that lasts the entirety of the video.
The footage of Jimmy Kimmel surprising a delighted 3-year-old Justin
Bieber fan with an appearance by her idol was eighth on the list.
The initial tape of the toddler crying over not being able to see
Bieber was also a big hit after her family uploaded it onto YouTube.
The trailer for Twilight Saga: Eclipse got over 17 million fans
logging in to watch and a stunt video of rally driver Ken Block speeding
around the track rounded up the top ten list.
YouTube said it made an exception in its rankings for OK Go's music
video because the band is no longer on a major label. In March, the band
left EMI's Capitol Records to start Paracadute Recordings.
Mia Quagliarello, YouTube community manager, noted that several of
2010's top videos were made by people or companies that attempt to
create YouTube videos for a living. YouTube shares advertising revenue
with uploaders who are 'partners.'
Many of the so-called amateurs that helped build YouTube have gone pro.
'More and more people are seeing YouTube as a place they can make it their career,' said Ms Quagliarello. 'We try to give them the tools and the financials to make that happen.'
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