Bangalore : In a year when more than 13 million hours of video was uploaded to YouTube globally, viewers across India were captivated by millions of entertaining videos on YouTube India. The list of most-watched videos on YouTube India in 2010,showcases how Indian users logged on to YouTube to get their daily dose of entertainment watching inspirational to latest bollywood music videos to older classic from the 1980s to news videos. In 2010, Nick Vijicic (preacher and motivational speaker who was born without arms or legs due to a rare disorder known as Tetra-amelia.) emerged as the most watched video on YouTube India with 15,375,254 views.

Bollywood music videos ruled the charts on YouTube in India with title song from the Shahid Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee starrer ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’ taking the #2 slot with over 4.5 million views. The #3 slot has been taken by the song ‘Tere Liye’, one of the most popular Bollywood songs of the year by Pakistani Singer Atif Aslam, featuring actor Vivek Oberoi.

“The most-watched YouTube videos of 2010 reflect the people, their choices and reflects how YouTube in India is becoming the leading destination for catching entertaining content online.Globally “YouTube has become the world’s town square – a place where culture is created and shared. In India, YouTube is growing as an extremely important platform for content distribution with all content producers adopting the platform to catch audiences online.” said, Vinay Goel,Head of Products Google India.

In India, as at mid-November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos were*:

1. Nick Vujicic – You are beautiful

2. Hadippa – The remix (Dil Bole Hadippa)

3. Tere Liye (Prince)

4. Mausam Bada Suhana Hai Achcha Jee Iska (Andar Baahar)

5. Crazy Kiya Re (Dhoom 2)

6. Young woman recounts her ordeal – news story from Gujarat

7. What did you say again? “My waffle wife”

8. Goodbye to the King of Pop

9. Saif and kareena in ‘Kurbaan’

10. Tu Jaane Na (Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani)

In addition to compiling the YouTube most watched lists, YouTube India also examined the billions of queries that people typed into YouTube search in 2010 to identify some of the fastest-rising search terms for each month. The most-searched for queries on YouTube India during the year show what was on our collective minds as 2010 played out. Like Google Zeitgeist,these lists reveal the interests, issues, and entertainment that connected us – remember these moments?

Most searched for terms during 2010 on YouTube India, by month, were:

1. Jan – 3 idiots speech

2. Feb – Sachin 200

3. Mar – Live IPL

4. April – Raavan

5. May – Indian Idol

6. June – Shakira Waka Waka

7. July – Inception

8. Aug – Anjana Anjaani

9. Sept – Dabangg

10. Oct – Big Boss 4

11. Nov – Sheila ki Jawaani

The Global lists:

Globally, as at mid-November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos (excluding majormusic label ideos) were*:

1. BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)

2. TIK TOK KESHA Parody – 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

And globally, at mid-November 2010, the most-watched music videos from major music labels on YouTube were:

1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris

2. Shakira ft. Freshlyground – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA

World Cup Song)

3. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

4. Eminem – Not Afraid

5. Rihanna – Rude Boy

6. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith

7. Justin Bieber – Never Let You Go

8. Lady Gaga – Alejandro

9. Justin Bieber – Somebody To Love Remix ft. Usher

10. Lady Gaga – Telephone ft. Beyonce

More awesome YouTube moments of 2010:

• More than 700bn playbacks and more than 13 million hours of video uploaded during 2010
• YouTube reached 35 hours of video uploaded every minute, surpassing 24 hours in March.
• The ‘subscribe’ button was hit for the billionth time – by someone subscribing to Machinima Sports
• nigahiga became the first channel to hit 2m subscribers
• Lady Gaga hit 1 billion cumulative views
• Michelle Phan became the first woman on YouTube to achieve one million subscribers
• Justin Bieber’s Baby became the most viewed video of all time with more than 400m views

To see more of the year’s most popular and influential YouTube videos from across the world,

visit youtube.com/rewind. And for more lists, see YouTube Trends and the YouTube blog.