Below is the Top 10 Trending Music Videos on YouTube during 2013, calculated based on visitors to the video-sharing website by Irish residents. This chart comes out each year, and it features the most popular music videos that have been shared on external websites, and have been viewed by a significant number of people on those external websites, aswell as on YouTube itself.
All of the Top 10 is completed by international non-Irish acts, apart from Number 10, which features Colaiste Lurgan doing their energetic take on Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’ track, as Gaeilge. The Galway school have now had more than a handful of viral hits, which are Irish-language remixes of popular chart tunes.
According to YouTube… “Trending Videos are videos that have become popular because they were embedded in the web’s most popular websites and a significant number of people viewed the video externally in addition to on YouTube.com”.
1. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
2. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell
3. Avicii – Wake Me Up (Lyric Video)
4. Naughty Boy – La La La ft. Sam Smith
5. P!nk – Just Give Me A Reason ft. Nate Ruess
6. Daft Punk – Get Lucky (Official Audio) ft. Pharrell Williams
7. PSY – Gentleman m/v
8. Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop
9. Bastille – Pompeii