Rihanna tops Lady Gaga as most-viewed female on YouTube

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Image caption, Rihanna makes her film debut in Battleship, which is released in April

Rihanna has overtaken Lady Gaga to become the most viewed female artist on video sharing website YouTube.

The 23-year-old star from Barbados passed 2,068,076,591 video views last weekend.

Rihanna's 2011 UK number one single We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris has now been clicked on more than 115 million times.

Lady Gaga became the first artist to reach one billion views on the website in October 2010.

However, Rihanna and Lady Gaga still trail Justin Bieber as the site's most viewed artist.

The Canadian teenager was discovered after videos of him performing were posted on the site in 2007.

His track, Baby, featuring rapper Ludicrous has 695,519,660 views to date.

More than four billion clips are viewed on YouTube every day, with 60 hours of content uploaded by users every minute.