Reason for the music videos videos are witth high numbers.

After Billboard change the chart (including the views of youtube), clearly we can see that visits increased absurdly. It's a scam.

YouTube video streaming is a scam. The videos only have 700, 900 millions now because of the hot 100 of billboard.

Before, was impossible for an artist to have 150,000 airplain on the radio. Now easily surpass 200 million. All to count on the billboard hot 100.

Katy Perry with two videos with 1 billion. Of course, with a record company paying hackers to access your videos. With a label that does everything for her to be number one.

not really its because VEVO is peaking

or it could be that the internet is more accessible everywhere and more people use it each day

It's brilliant. And it shows that these kinds of scams alter public perception of the artist, including ATRL stans.

it is only because of the billboard. Just as airplains on the radio.

I don't understand how someone can hack a video. What is this.

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The whole world isn't ATRL stanning for x artists....thats not how it works...go out see the sun a bit. Everything has changed, more people watch youtube videos, its easier and faster to watch them worldwide. AND if it goes viral even better

Videos are getting more views because like you said views now count towards billboard so fans now have a reason to overplay them.

Just because your fave Belinda's video was deleted from Youtube because of fake views does not mean other artists fake their views.

The internet is growing. YouTube is exponentially bigger than what it was a few years ago.
Streaming is growing too. Billboard rule changes just reflected streaming's rise, it's not the other way around.

again people are pressed by Katy. That's what happens when you have a smash hit; people will want to stream it. The easiest, cheapest way is to watch the YouTube video.

Well.. I wouldn't be surprised. Streaming a video on YouTube is free, unlike for instance a label buying their own songs or something on iTunes since iTunes gets a cut.

Fanbases do not generate huge views. At least not in the long term and certainly not huge sub-billion numbers.

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airplains

I cannot understand half of what you are talking about. If you are going to write out a well thought opinion, have the wording actually make sense.

Agreed, there are exceptions which are the artists that move a huge crowd (teenagers), but the rest can get huge numbers by just being a hit, a good music video or going viral.

They reweighted the AI a couple of years ago didn't they?

So what did Capitol do to get Unconditionally, This Is How We Do, and Birthday to number one?

Dark Horse went number one by itself. Everyone knows this.

Streaming >>> Airplay & Digital Sales