There can be only one choice for our biggest Social Star Award in 2013.

The Canadian teenager is a true product of social media, with a career launched on Youtube at age 13. He now reigns supreme on Twitter with an army of Beliebers retweeting his words an average of 250,000 times per day, and with more views on YouTube than half the population of planet earth.

Starcount is proud to award our Music Star and our Almighty Social Star Awards to the one and only…. Justin Bieber.

The UK- Irish boy band has surged in the last year adding around 10m fans on each of Facebook and Twitter. Second only to Justin Bieber in the passion of their fans, “Directioners” retweet the band 50,000 times a day – and even more on some of the band’s personal Twitters.

The undisputed kings of social media in the UK, One Direction are 2013’s Social Star winner in the Music Group category.

In the year that saw the theatrical release of its final movie, Twilight has established itself as most popular film franchise of 2013.

With a presence on multiple networks, 8m new Facebook fans and ½ m new Twitter followers, Twilight edged past Harry Potter to claim 2013’s Film Social Star Award.

A longstanding Twitter favourite, the Ellen de Generes Show saw its social popularity boosted even further in 2013, with 9m new Twitter followers and an incredible 1bn YouTube views.

Despite strong competition from huge global franchises including the Simpsons and X-Factor, Ellen de Generes clinches the TV Social Star Award for 2013.

Fighting off competition from older and more established stars, Selena Gomez claims the 2013 Actor Social Star winner.

With well over 300m new YouTube views and 14m Facebook fans, Selena has held the attention of Social Media fans across the world, with fans enthralled by her on-off courtship with Justin Bieber, as well as by her new films and music .

In a year that saw Barcelona clinch La Liga yet again, it is perhaps no surprise to see the Catalan legends scoop up 2013’s Social Star Award.

With a fan base stretching right across the world, Barça held off rivals Real Madrid, thanks in part to 13m new Facebook Fans, with almost 1m ‘talking about’ the club every week.

Cristiano held his title as world’s most popular athlete on Social Media in 2013.

While continuing to impress on the pitch, he added 15m new Facebook fans , 10m Twitter follower and almost 5m Tencent followers to his already extraordinary tally, leaving the Portuguese and Real Madrid Striker unsurpassed in the Sportsperson category.

This addictive puzzle game was only released in 2012, yet has surged past rivals to become most popular Facebook app in the world, currently with 45m monthly users.

Even perennial favourites on our shortlist could not match the viral power this game has seen over the past year.

Swedish Gamer PewDiePie has been the YouTube sensation of the year.

Relatively unknown this time last year, PewDiePie saw his fame take off with his unique brand of comedy spreading virally across the web, and attracting over 7m subs and 1.5bn views on the platform in just a year.

With a highly developed presence on all major networks and localised accounts for all large regions of the world, Samsung Mobile is ubiquitous on social media – just like its products in the real world.

With 40m new fans on Facebook alone this year, Samsung Mobile’s social popularity earns it the 2013 Brand Social Star Award.