This week's Trends: billions, spots, jelly beans

Each weekday, we at YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of what we've come across this week:

• We noted that Justin Bieber's single "Mistletoe" helped push the star over 2 billion views.
  
  
• We saw more intense confrontations at "Occupy" protests.
  
  
• We collected 10 of the most-viewed performances of "Thriller" on Halloween.
  
  
• We tracked the most popular song parody in Wisconsin.
  
  
• We asked Yukigassen the New Botaoshi?
  
  
• We viewed spreading "lockout" spots from Nike.
  
  
• We highlighted the search bump around the new GTA.
  
  
• And this was certainly the most elaborately crafted music video to captured our attention this week:

Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends