Justin Bieber has become the first artist to pass a billion views with a single song on VEVO.

The troubled teen singer’s first major hit “Baby” was the first song to reach the milestone on the video streaming site, it was confirmed over the weekend.

The milestone means that the song has now officially been certified 10 times by VEVO, an accolade which the site gives to videos which have been viewed over 100 million times.

In addition, Bieber has also achieved the impressive milestone of having 11 certified videos on VEVO.

Bieber does still have a long way to go before he can surpass the artist with the most views on rival video site YouTube.

“Gangnam Style” by Psy remains the most viewed video on YouTube with an impressive 2 billion views so far.