Justin Bieber Will Break Your Internet

By Steven Avalos Posted Feb 16th 2010 03:42PM

This morning Justin Bieber was present in two of Twitter's top ten global trending topics, a feat usually reserved for big events like award shows and major sports outings. Seeing as this is just any old Tuesday in February, what gives?

We asked our Facebook friends about the teen pop phenomenon this morning and the resounding answer was, "WHO?" Still, like him or not, Bieber is a true Internet star, who was plucked from in front of his webcam in Canada and thrown into the real music world, working with heavyweights like Usher and releasing his debut album on Island Def Jam Records. Now he is even taking over Lionel Richie's singing duties in the 'We Are The World' remake. But what makes this 15-year-old stand out from the rest of the aspiring singers out there? Perhaps it's his legion of die-hard young fans. PopEater breaks down his rise to fame ... after the jump.

Bieber's fame is not just buzz, either. Last November, Bieber's debut album 'My World' debuted at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling 137,000 copies in its first week. At the time, the album was the strongest debut from a new artist before Susan Boyle pounced on the scene and subsequently decimated all competition the following month. Even more impressive, Bieber became the first solo artist in Billboard's history to have at least 4 singles enter the Top 40-- before the album even dropped.

These days you can regularly find Bieber presenting at the Grammy Awards or hobnobbing with superstars like Rihanna and Beyonce (both of whom he's expressed having crushes on), but the true key to his success is never forgetting about the fans that thrust him into the spotlight in the first place (as evidenced by the riots he caused at a local mall last fall).

YouTube
On Bieber's original stomping grounds, the pop star is certainly a force to be reckoned with. His YouTube page has 136 million video views and nearly half a million active subscribers. If he sings it, they will watch and listen.

Facebook and MySpace
Currently, Bieber has 1,743,255 fans on Facebook and 484,193 friends over at MySpace (at time of publishing.) The latter is maybe not all that impressive in a relative sense (by comparison, larger artist Beyonce has 1,611,244), but as newer social networking sites continue to grow where MySpace once dominated that's not too shabby at all. Here it is quality over quantity.

And as for Facebook? A simple post by Bieber with just a link to his YouTube channel and a sweet Valentines Day message received over 15,000 likes and 4,500 comments. He's definitely a social media juggernaut.

Twitter
Over 1.1 million strong, Twitter is by far Bieber's greatest asset. As previously mentioned, this fervent network has the ability to start a riot, literally. Last fall, crowd control got out of hand at a mall in Long Island, NY and resulted in five people hospitalized with minor injuries and police arresting a vice president from Bieber's record label. The police's major grievance? Justin's failure to tweet his fans to cooperate with authorities in their attempts at dispersing the crowd. That's pretty major in our books.

Obviously Bieber owes a lot to the fact that the majority of his fans are young (and excitable) enough to devote unlimited amounts of time following his every tweet and musical note. The more we see Bieber around, the more we know he's definitely the one to watch.

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Comments

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Tuesday 16 February

By Reena

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why the glasses?? they don't look like they even have glass in them. sorry...I have no idea who this kid is, but he looks ridiculous.

Tuesday 27 April

By joey

i need to say somthing i want all the haters to shut the f*** up im sick of it you need to stup picking on all the pepple that are smaller then you or weeker thenn you just shut up now and give thes pepple a brake its sooooooooooooooo stupid wenn pepple think there cool well to me and this is just me i think everone is not as cool as they think you haters just make fun of pepple just to hide the fackt that your little wemps and lowsers and all that stuf so hew ever sees this iwant you to go to your room and think or just sit there and think i can make change buy just changing your self and the world well bye the best place to live in it well b cleen of nasty meen pepple and trash just say the word i can do it and you well now this is just my apinyin but iwanna make a chang my self

Thursday 29 July

By lydia

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you are soooo rong that boy is justin bieber and he is cute

Thursday 05 August

By ilovejb

he is most certainly does not look ridiculous he looks so cute and you are most wrong

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why are you replying to something that was posted in February???

Wednesday 17 February

By Wish Belkin

He's as cute as a spotted puppy.
He didn't hurt WATW at all. At least he can carry a tune.
Unlike some of the manufactured acts making millions these days.

i agree with you he is as cute as a spotted puppy i love him soooooo much i bet you love him more lol peace

joey age 16

By Bex

ha... wow.

Thursday 18 February

By asif from pakistan

i love justin bieber

Saturday 06 March

By starrlet

I love him too.I am a big fan. I have a friend who has a cuson who is related to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday 15 April

By sara

i TOTALLY agree wit u

By springtime4umbridge

I haven't heard "We Are the World" yet (I'm scared), but I'm sure it was awful, garjaya. He sounds like a little girl. We were talking about him today, and my friend said, "Puberty is gonna hit Justin Bieber like a freight train."

Tuesday 23 March

By tess

thts totally not nice and he like rocks i love justin beiber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday 01 April

By MiMi

toushai i agree but still cute!

Friday 09 April

By Melanie Bieber

WEll ur friend just copied tht out of a newspaper, trust me, i saw it. And dont say tht about him. he's amazing, and ur just jealous coz hes ahkshully DOING something with his life!!! nd ur just mean. back off. if u dont like him, then y bother look him up?!?!? i swear, all u haters just LOOK for trouble..........

Thursday 26 August

By emma

your are hurting his fellings and im a teenager

Tuesday 09 March

By shania coffin

i love him too

Tuesday 16 March

By bailey

hey i love u so much jb !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday 17 March

By Hailey

If he sounds like a little girl then why did you look him upp..? If you don't like his singing then just don't listen to him..OMG..!!!Some of these people I swear...He'sProbably only seen the city looking part of Georgia...I live in the country..

dude tht is cute but i laughed when i looked at tht pic but tht is tot. cute

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