Nightly News | May 18, 2011
Lady Gaga trumps Oprah as 'Most Powerful'
Lady Gaga bumped Oprah Winfrey from her number-one spot on the Forbes "Most Powerful" list. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: The Forbes 2011 Celebrity Power List is out, the 100 most influential, popular and best compensated famous people. Justin Bieber debuts on the list at number three. At age 17, he's pulled in $53 million over the last year. Oprah knocked out of first place, as her talk show is about to come to an end. A number one Lady Gaga , a staggering $90 million in earnings, 32 million Facebook followers, 10 million Twitter followers. And if you don't understand the attraction, then you don't understand these Gaga fans. Started camping out yesterday, that would be Tuesday, outside 30 Rock , for Gaga 's appearance on SNL . That would be this coming Saturday night. A long week in mostly rain.