Justin Bieber is currently 最佳, 返回页首 of the pops on the Billboard Social 50 chart, but Britpop sensations One Direction are closing fast – hitting the 秒 spot, their highest position to date.

1D have climbed the chart rapidly in the last few weeks, rising from 6th to 4th and now into 2nd.

Rihanna, 阿黛尔 and LMFAO make up the rest of the 最佳, 返回页首 five spots.

The social 50 chart is based on the most 流行的 artists & groups from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, VEVO and others, calculated from a special formula that only clever boffins know

Social media has played a huge part in catapulting 1D...