In January 2017, Puerto Rican music superstars Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee released the original version of "Despacito" and promptly became a huge hit. Clearly, he was soon back again, though, and his followers have since skyrocketed to 205 million at the time of posting. They love you." And with that, JB followed through with his threat and placed his account on ice. "If you can't handle the hate, then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol - it should be special between you two only," Selena Gomez decreed on her Insta (via People ). If you guys are really fans, you wouldn't be so mean to people that I like."īieber's off-again-on-again-then-off-again ex even managed to insert herself into the drama. "I'm gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don't stop the hate," The Biebs warned. Despite gaining over 1.2 million likes, the commenters included an army of venom-spitting trolls. As CNN reports, he paused his account in August 2016 after a pic of him and Sofia Richie sent haters into overdrive. However, President Barack Obama would go on to scoop up the record for "most followers on Twitter (male)" with 130,272,840 users hitting the follow button.ĭuring the previous year, Bieber had felt the adverse effects of the 'gram. At the time of posting, has 114.1 million followers, helping him re-win his "most followers on Twitter for a male pop star " crown once again in 2021. The Biebtacular achievement led to him being crowned the most followed male tweeter in the world. (Katy Perry was the first musician to exceed 100k followers.) The social network immediately jumped aboard the Bieber train, and #100MillionBeliebers began top trending.Īnd, it transpires Biebs had actually scored, as GWR put it, "two milestone social media records." In addition to being awarded the "most followers on Twitter (male)," Bieber also set the Guinness World Record for "most followers on Twitter for a male popstar." The Belieber Twitter army has continued to grow even larger over the years. As Billboard reported at the time, his follower count skyrocketed past 100,000,000 users.
In 2017, J-Biebz smashed another Twitter record – and then some, cranking it up a notch, or ten. Don't Belieb us? Well, read on and weep, doubters. Even the most devout JB fanatics will be surprised at all the Guinness world records set by Justin Bieber. He racked up masses of hits, more than his fair share of scandalous headlines, a slew of high-profile relationships, a wealth of awards, and a staggering amount of world records - like, seriously staggering. Over the next few years, Bieber became a music superstar. He hadn't even turned 16 and his career was already skyrocketing. J-Beebs was 15 years old when he released his first single, "One Time," and it hit platinum status in his homeland within weeks. As Braun told Forbes, "I signed Justin when he had 70,000 views on YouTube." This signing would eventually lead to a deal with Usher, which would lead to one of the biggest careers in pop music. The music industry maestro stumbled upon the Canadian crooner and saw a future superstar. However, that all changed after Scooter Braun happened to scroll through the social media platform one fateful day. Justin Bieber was just a tween posting homemade videos of himself singing cover songs on YouTube back in 2007.
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