Social networking site Bebo has overtaken market leader MySpace among UK visitors. 

Bebo accounted for 13.54 per cent of UK visits to social networking sites last week, edging it slightly ahead of MySpace at 13.26 per cent, according to figures released by web monitoring company Hitwise. 

Video sharing site YouTube was third most popular with 5.63 per cent of visits, followed by FaceParty with 3.38 per cent and Piczo with 2.05 per cent.

Friends Reunited, which was bought by ITV for £120m in December last year, came sixth with just 1.94 per cent.

Bebo also entered the top 10 most visited UK sites for the first time, accounting for 0.79 per cent. Google UK was the most visited site, at 7.47 per cent of all UK visits. 

Bebo launched a music uploading service in a direct challenge to its rival MySpace at the end of last month. 

At the time Bebo Bands claimed that more than 25,000 musicians and groups had already uploaded music to the site, through which other members can stream or download tracks legally for free.