BBHMM was age restricted, that kinda destroys the "YouTube views, hun. " argument.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't really matter that it was age restricted. One had more streams than the other, and it was a Rih stan who brought up streams in the first place.
I thought the age restriction would only affect Katy of all the major popstars
With age-restricted videos, people have to sign in their YT accounts in order to even view the video, and chances are, not everyone who views youtube videos have an account. I don't know the exact statistics though.
Partition was age restricted and still crossed 100 million views
rihanus is just OVER, face the facts
It took partition 20 months, even after the album was released to reach 100 million views while BBHMM has close to 55m in less than four months. Let's try to think before rushing & assuming that someone's career is "over".