Avril Lavigne beats motivational speaker for title of most-watched video clip on YouTube

He is a motivational speaker from Ohio world Health Organization wears an orange T-shirt and loves to dance. She is a guitar-thrashing pop princess and ikon for millions of angst-ridden teenagers. Together they are locked in a David and Goliath struggle for the pennant of the world's act one internet video - and the accolade of being watched 100 meg times.

After more than two years at the upper side, Judson Laipply's low-budget video, Evolution of Dance, has lost its status as the well-nigh watched magazine of all time on YouTube. It has been overtaken by Girlfriend, a glossy music video that accompanies the hit platter by millionaire singer Avril Lavigne.

Amid allegations of lousy tricks, fans of both artists ar trying to make their favourite the first to achieve the landmark in internet chronicle, given that YouTube was only launched in 2005. The battle also reflects the split within YouTube's content 'tween amateur photographic film footage and slick commercial clips. The site's top 20 to the highest degree viewed list features professional music videos by stars such as Leona Lewis and Alicia Keys, just also homemade footage of a baby laughing hilariously from a high professorship.

Laipply is the underdog in the duel. At the time of going to press his total YouTube views had reached 96,421,205.

Lavigne was already being dubbed the new Britney Spears before her punk-flavoured song 'Girlfriend' from her album The Best Damn Thing topped the charts in America, and her total views hit 97,765,102.

In June the fansite Avril Bandaids claimed to have found a way to cheat the system and urged fans to follow a link to help boost ratings by wake it thousands of times a day. Later it admitted that the link was a hoax.

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