NEWS: Gaga & Bieber Nearing One Billion YouTube Views

Two of the world's biggest stars are going head to head for a new YouTube record, the first to reach one billion YouTube views!

According to Communications Director at TubeMogul David Birch, the “Poker Face” singer is expected to pass the one billion views milestone on YouTube around Oct. 20. During September, videos featuring Gaga averaged almost 1.8 million views per day, while Biebs’ vids netted roughly 3.7 million times daily.

Birch susupects Bieber will hit the one billion views milestone around Nov. 1 if he keeps up his current pace.

Both artists have many of YouTube's all-time most-viewed videos. Bieber's "Baby" is YouTube's most-watched video of all time with 345 million views. His "Never Let You Go" is #22 with 92 million views while "Never Say Never" is #28 with 86 million views. He's also at #34 and #40.

Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" is #2 all-time at YouTube with 288 million views. "Just Dance" is at #11 with 123 million views, "Alejandro" is #26 with 87 million views and "Telephone" is #31 with 85 million views.

After Lady Gaga and Bieber, the next closest artist is the late King of pop Michael Jackson who sits at around 600 million views.

- Partly sourced from Billbord.com