Rebecca Black beats Justin Bieber in the charts Mocked song Friday has 29 million views on YouTube and climbs the pop charts.

Rebecca Black beats Justin Bieber in the charts Mocked song Friday has 29 million views on YouTube and climbs the pop charts.

Rebecca Black, the 13-year-old whose debut single became a Youtube sensation, is now above Justin Bieber in the itunes singles chart.

Black's song Friday is at number 25 - four places above Justin Bieber's track Never Say Never.

By noon today (21st March) her video had attracted 29 million views. There have been a spate of comments mocking the banal lyrics such as: 'We so excited/We gonna have a ball today/Tomorrow is Saturday/And Sunday comes afterwards.'

Black had said: "Those hurtful comments really shocked me. At times, it feels like I’m being cyber-bullied."

Her record label, Los Angeles-based Ark Music Factory, even offered to pull the video from the site but Black refused to give her "haters" the satisfaction.
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The 13-year-old's mother paid $2,000 to the LA based Ark - a production company for aspiring teen singers - to get the song and video made. The video was shot in her father's home, and friends and family were the extras.

Presented with two songs to potentially record, she chose Friday - but she did not write the mocked lyrics.

Music supremo Simon Cowell said: 'I love her [and] the fact that she's gotten so much publicity. People are so upset about the song, but I think it's hysterical. I want to meet her. Anyone who can create this much controversy within a week, I want to meet. I love people like that."