Introduction

YouTube started as a video sharing web site, quickly became a societal phenomenon of modern era, currently standing just next to such uber-giants as Google and Facebook [1, 3, 4]. Following is the Top10 list of the most popular video items ever published on YouTube (items have been selected and sorted in descending order by the number of views recorded as of June 10th of 2011).

# Views Title Performer
1. 561,796,382 Baby Justin Bieber
2. 386,731,215 Bad Romance Lady Gaga
3. 351,881,632 Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Shakira
4. 344,922,691 Love The Way You Lie Eminem
5. 335,698,412 Charlie bit my finger - again! "Charlie"
6. 247,008,238 One Time Justin Bieber
7. 244,105,999 Not Afraid Eminem
8. 229,321,784 On The Floor Jennifer Lopez
9. 225,067,363 Party In The U.S.A. MIley Cyrus
10. 219,605,489 Never Say Never Justin Bieber

Extended list is included in online publication [1]. Dedicated YouTube Player with extended statistics on Top100 video items is also available online [2]. For each video item statistics provide:
1. Title
2. Performer
3. Views
3. Likes
4. Dislikes
5. Approval ratio, % (calculated as: Likes/(Likes + Dislikes)
6. Duration, M:S
7. Upload Date

Sorting options include: Views, Title and Performer.

FYI: Online Statistic was updated as of 07/01/2011 - see/listen to updated playlist at [2].
YouTube Top100 Player

Embedded YouTube Player SDK (API for ASP.NET/C#) is described in [5,6].