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Ethan Smith

Sep 8, 2010 5:30 pm ET

Thanks largely to an ad-sales partnership with Warner Music Group, MTV Networks last month became the Web’s most-visited music destination, surpassing rival Vevo, according to new statistics from ComScore Media Metrix.

MTV’s websites drew 53 million unique visitors in August, according to ComScore, two and a half times as many as the year-earlier period. Vevo had 49 million visitors.

MTV’s move to the top spot comes eight months after Vevo, a joint venture of Universal Music, Sony Music and YouTube, nabbed the No. 1 position.

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