Poker Face (released in 2008) - 213 M streams
Unfaithful (2006) - 208 M streams
How?
Well, I think it's because she hasn't had a humongous smash after streaming really picked up, like her peers did. And tbh the BTW era was messy videos-wise so maybe that turned off a lot of people in this aspect.
Applause was not a monster hit and IMO its video is bad. Jusas is understandable. Telephone is too long so is BTW. But lets not go after Poker Face and its 370M deleted views before VEVO.
When you are making repulsive videos, do expect repulsive amount of views. No one should be blamed for her lack of streaming, well maybe except herself. She's simply trying too hard to be weird, edgy and controversial while disregarding the GP's definition of quality and good taste
When you are making repulsive videos, do expect repulsive amount of views. No one should be blamed for her lack of streaming, well maybe except herself. She's simply trying too hard to be weird, edgy and controversial while disregarding the GP's definition of quality and good taste
I agree that Gaga's music videos have been terrible for the longest time now but Dark Horse is the most watched female video of all time and that's one of Katy's weakest videos. The decline in views has more to do with Gaga's decline in relevancy than the quality of the music vids. My baby girl really needs a smash hit to become a streaming force again.
Her videos are way too long at some point it becomes really uninteresting, like I don't know the last time I watched any of Telephone/MTN/Alejandro/G.U.Y./BTW videos I'd rather watch an episode of a sitcom But I just watched Bad Romance's video yesterday, she needs to stop with those long ass videos
I agree that Gaga's music videos have been terrible for the longest time now but Dark Horse is the most watched female video of all time and that's one of Katy's weakest videos. The decline in views has more to do with Gaga's decline in relevancy than the quality of the music vids. My baby girl really needs a smash hit to become a streaming force again.
Lack of huge hits since 2011 = little impression on current singles and old ones. Though, we can't
forget that BTW & Judas each got ~100 million views on their audio videos before they got taken down.
Bad Romance, Telephone and Alejandro were all in the top 10 most viewed in 2010.
Born This Way (audio) was the most streamed audio-only video on YouTube, Judas also got a lot of stream.
It's just that got peaked before streaming really too off and her videos are not on a lot videos under the suggested side bar.
Also, I remember reading that her videos were among the most viewed with a unique address (which really just mean most people only watch her video once) but I could be mistaken.
EDIT: Forgot about Just Dance and Poker Face having over 300kk views each in 2009 alone before they got deleted in favor of the Vevo ones. Paparazzi and LoveGame had a lot of views too.
Because she wasn't as successful as those other girls from 2012-2015. Catalog sales/streams are sometimes a reflection of current popularity which is why Katy's/Rihanna's/Taylor's old videos are still gaining so many views. With streaming growing exponentially, it makes sense that they would all pass her in that regard.
Her videos aren't as accessible and easy watching as the other ones, so people dont watch them more than once because they find it weird, confusing or scary.
Plus, alot of her videos are long and a lot of people stream music videos due to the song, not the music video. Because hers have 2mins of pre-ramble people tune out.
Her videos are way too long. People will stream in other ways because they're not gonna sit through a 15 minute music video where she talks for 11 minutes when they only wanna hear the song.
i never understood why the born this way era's videos didnt get more views tbh. most of them were controversial and the ones that weren't we decent sized hits...so i don't know tbh
Some of her videos were actually taken down after acquiring over 100 millions views, so there's always that. Either way, she DEFINED streaming and viewing power when Vevo first started, and set the gold standard. Since then, she hasn't really made much of an impact on the general public to spark interest in her most recent videos.