The "Video of the Year" at the 2013 YouTube Music Awards came as a surprise. When Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber and Psy are nominated it definitely comes as a surprise that the winner is a South Korean girl group Girls' Generation for their video "I Got a Boy."

So who exactly are these girls?

Girls' Generation is a nine-member group with Taeyeon, Jessica, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Seohyun as the group members who formed the group way back in 2007. With four full-length Korean and two Japanese albums under their belt, including 2013's "I Got a Boy," the girl band has a No. 1 on the Billboard World Albums list and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

Check out their winning video below.

Girls' Generation are also set to release their third Japanese album on December 11. The album will drop in four different editions and is expected to feature group's singles, "Love & Girls" and "Galaxy Supernova," both of which reached the top of the charts in their country. With the new win as "Music Video of the Year," we are hoping that the sales of their upcoming album will be benefitted.

Rapper Eminem, Lady Gaga and Arcade Fire performed at the inaugural YouTube Awards 2013, which are going to be projected as the direct competition for MTV Music Awards and Grammy's in future. Directed by Spike Jonzem the show was hosted by musician and actor Jason Schwartzman and musician Reggie Watts.

The show definitely generated good amount of interest in the audience but had only 215,000 people were live-streaming the YouTube event as compared to 10 million viewers watching the MTV Video Music Award, according to Variety. YouTube is expecting an increase in the number of viewers watching the event as the awards' music performances will be available for viewers to watch later too.

Rapper Eminem was named Artist of the Year. The 40 plus rapper closed the event with his marvellous fast-track performance on the new song "Rap God." Other winners include Macklemore & Ryan Lewis as "Breakthrough of the Year," "Response of the Year" was won by Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix - Radioactive.

"Innovation of the Year" was won by DeStorm - See Me Standing and "YouTube Phenomenon" was won by I Knew You Were Trouble.

Girls' Generation I GOT A BOY Music Video

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