Bon Appetit hits 1 billion views on youtube

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2 hours ago, HybridAT said:

Not only did her label employ bots to artificially inflate the views of a critically panned and commercially bombed song, the video was also one of the first results to come up when somebody searched pizzagate or some conspiracy sh*t. I remember very clearly this was discussed in the Charts thread very extensively when one day, all of a sudden it had a huge jump from a couple thousand views a day to millions per day. That's why this reached 1B. This is a joke.

And I don't even hate Katy unlike a few other people here and have defended her quite a few times but to say this is organic

Wait what? This sounds insane. Do you have any sources for this?

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a bop ngl

[Biggest Bitch 5,230]

1 minute ago, KevinWright said:

Stream are not sales. Or at least 'real' sales. 

Gaga won at sales, but Katy won on every other platform 

 

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24 minutes ago, Biggest Bitch said:

Gaga won at sales, but Katy won on every other platform 

 

Did she nominated for a Grammy or any other award? Did Witness had a better chart performance? And what about the singles chart performance of these albums? Do you really think Witness is more iconic than ARTPOP or even Joanne? And let's talk about the live performances... I only remember that ultra cringe live of Swish Swish with the bag guy. Should i continue? 

[Biggest Bitch 5,230]

1 minute ago, KevinWright said:

Did she nominated for a Grammy or any other award? Did Witness had a better chart performance? And what about the singles chart performance of these albums? Do you really think Witness is more iconic than ARTPOP or even Joanne? And let's talk about the live performances... I only remember that ultra cringe live of Swish Swish with the bag guy. Should i continue? 

Where did I said that Witness is more iconic than ARTPOP and Joanne? 

I only said it wasn’t flop. You can continue hating Katy all day, but it’s a fact: If u call Witness a flop, then you should do the same with ARTPOP and Joanne, cause these albums success was quite similar everywhere. 

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3 hours ago, LVbuttondown said:

Has to be bots and bought views. I still can't understand why some of Gaga's videos don't have more views! Marry The Night, Alejandro, Paparazzi, Applause all deserve views similar to Bad Romance. 911 deserves as well! It is instantly one of her most iconic. 

Can I say organic? 

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more fake than nickis as**

[StrawberryBlond 14,874]

I don't get how these clearly bot views haven't been deleted (likes as well). I remember when views randomly went through the roof for this one day. It was not long after Taylor's ME video came out, which was very unusual timing. It was 2.5 years old and hadn't been promoted, performed on tour, been on an ad, been featured in a viral video, nothing. Yet it suddenly got millions of views and likes in a single day without explanation. I waited expecting them all to be retracted when it was clear what was going on but nothing. And its only been on the up ever since. It's so bizarre when you don't get video hits like this for big flops. Her subscribers are obviously still massively inflated too, she's still gaining 100k per week roughly which was weird enough during Witness but now looks even more bizarre when she can only sell 50k in her debut week and her new videos are barely over 20 million these days. I don't know why her team keeps doing this and why it focuses on such random videos. It really makes her look bad and probably increases the dislike for these videos when it's clear what's happening. I notice that videos in general don't get the views they got 2, 3, 4 years ago, even when they're big hits. Maybe labels are aware that the public are catching on to obvious tricks?