Gorillaz Are Top MySpace Band

12/23/08 1:22pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

MySpace has a "Top 8" feature where you can put your eight favourite friends on your profile, so it's probably appropriate that the website has announced its eight most popular musical acts (in terms of their number of friends) and most watched videos of 2008.

Gorillaz are this year's most popular act with 682,875 friends. Bullet For My Valentine rank second, while Amy Winehouse is third. Coldplay, Lily Allen, M.I.A., Oasis and Imogen Heap round out the top eight.

Madonna's "4 Minutes" was the most viewed video on MySpace. It beat out The Verve's "Love Is Noise" and Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal's "Toe Jam." Videos by Justice, Oasis, DragonForce, Sigur Ros and The Raconteurs also made the top eight.

Here are MySpace's eight most popular acts:

Gorillaz (682,875 friends)
Bullet For My Valentine (596,885 friends)
Amy Winehouse (542,268 friends)
Coldplay (525,110 friends)
Lily Allen (462,159 friends)
M.I.A. (399,858 friends)
Oasis (353,484 friends)
Imogen Heap (351,484 friends)

Here are MySpace's eight most popular music videos:

Madonna — "4 Minutes"
The Verve — "Love Is Noise"
Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal — "Toe Jam"
Justice — "DVNO"
Oasis — "I'm Outta Time"
DragonForce — "Heroes Of Our Time"
Sigur Ros — "Inni Mer Syngur Vitelysingur"
The Raconteurs — "Old Enough"