YouTube’s top videos of 2009

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Posted December 17, 2009 5:21 pm.

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With 20 hours of video coming in to YouTube every minute, there are a lot of contenders for the most watched videos of the year. News1130 web reporter Erin Loxam tells us an unlikely lady topped the list.

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