Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna have all earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records 2012. The annual listing of all things giant and tiny will be in stores today. A few of the records:
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Lady Gaga receives an award for the “Most Twitter Followers”
with 11,259,372 fans behind her on the social media site. She also
scored an award for “Most Weeks on U.S. Digital Hot Songs” with “Poker
Face.” Her hit stayed there for a whopping 83 weeks.
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Justin Bieber earned “Most Popular Video of Any Kind Online” for “Baby.” It logged 463,820,304 views as of February 16th.
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Author J.K. Rowling made the list as the “First Billionaire
Author” thanks to sales of more than 400 million copies of the “Harry
Potter” books worldwide.
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Willow Smith earned “The Youngest Transatlantic Top 20 Artist,”
thanks to “Whip My Hair” hitting the top 20 when she was only 10 years
old.
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Rapper Lil Wayne is in the book for “Most U.S. Hot 100 Hits by a Rap Artist” – 64 between 1999 and 2010.
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U2 scored “Highest Grossing Music Tour” for the “360” outing,
which by April 2011 had raked in more than $539 million for 110 shows
between July 2009 and July 2011.
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Hugh Laurie has the “Highest Paid Actor in a TV Drama” record with $400,000 per episode of “House."
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17-year-old Angus T. Jones, of “Two and a Half Men,” is listed as “Highest Paid Child Star.” He earned $250,000 per episode.
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“iCarly” star Miranda Cosgrove was the “Highest Paid Child Actress,” earning $180,000 per episode.
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The wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton was crowned “Most Live Streams for a Single Event,” with 72 million streams.
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“Hawaii Five-O” nabbed “Highest Rated New Show,” as the CBS cop drama had 19.34 million viewers on January 23rd.
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Johnny Depp, Hugh Laurie, Sandra Bullock, Miranda Cosgrove and
Angus T. Nelson are world record-holders for money – though some of the
records already are tumbling. Depp’s listed as “Highest Paid Actor” for
taking in $75 million between June 2009 and June 2010. Sandra Bullock
led the actresses with $56 million.
