Notes: This is a snapshot of the results up until 17th December 2006. Clearly, over time this top ten will change as other videos are uploaded. The most recent video in this top ten was uploaded 4 months previous to December 2006, while six of the top ten were uploaded over 12 months previous.
UPDATES - January 2010: Various other websites have done similar top tens since we published this one. BrandRepublic have an August 2009 tally restricted to user-generated videos - no professional music videos therefore. ReadWriteWeb did two, one in 2007 and another in 2008. In the 2008 article they alert readers to some skulduggery amongst Avril Levigne fans who had been gaming the system. In December 2009 YouTube released a yearly top ten.