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Music Videos Popular on MTV Online (Go Figure)

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MTV Networks announced yesterday that it delivered more than "1.2 billion video streams from MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com in 2007, up 30% from 2006." And nearly half of those streams? Music videos. You know, the things tagged onto the end of shows and in between commercials and reruns of The Real World: Who Cares What City Because It's All the Same show.

Here are the top 10 videos from 2007 that were most-streamed across MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com. The number one spot, of course, belongs to Britney Spears live performance on the VMAs.

1: Gimme More (Live), Britney Spears, BMG
2: Girlfriend, Avril Lavigne, BMG
3: Umbrella, Rihanna, Universal
4: Glamorous, Fergie, Universal
5: Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie, Universal
6: This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, Fall Out Boy, Universal
7: Fergalicious, Fergie, Universal
8: The Sweet Escape, Gwen Stefani, Universal
9: Candyman, Christina Aguilera, BMG
10: Don't Matter, Akon, Universal

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