Comments on: Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend Is… YouTube

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[...] Jill: And then there’s that freaking throne and tiara they gave Avril. [...]

By: Mitchell D. Stein Sr.

Mitchell D. Stein Sr. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:32 +0000

youtube changes the rules?

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:38:43 +0000

I think that I am with you ‘XSIVE’ on this, I am all about the facts about this situation too, and the facts that I looked in to have lead me to the same conclusion as yours. Also the fact the Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend video was the most (legally bought) and downloaded song in 2007 lends even more credibility to the fact that Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend video was indeed a very popular video. Even more evidence to support the popularity of Avril Lavigne is the fact that Avril Lavigne was the best selling female artist in the world in 2007, according to WorldwideAlbums.net/2007ye.htm – And finally, the fact that Avril Lavigne now has the most NO. 1 Top 40 Hits This Decade, according to Billboard magazine, the Billboard article said that Avril Lavigne has ascended to a lofty pedestal: The 22-year-old now has the most No. 1 top 40 hits this decade at “five” and is the No. 2 artist in the 14-year history of Nielsen BDS, behind Mariah Carey’s six chart-toppers. —Chuck Taylor billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/singles/e3i6337374c02990aa382432d13494ab554 -It seems to me that with the kind of popularity of Avril Lavigne holds, it could have pushed her Girlfriend video to the most viewed video on YouTube quite easily.

By: xsive

xsive — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:09:24 +0000

That’s an interesting take. but I’m more for facts, so let’s look at those.
2 months after “Girlfriend” video was put on youtube it had 50,000 comments and 25million views. after that “girlfriend had a steady stream of about 1 million views a week (and it still does). on June 19th 2008 when Avrilbandaids posted the so called refresher page “Girlfriend had 88.0 Million views, That night the counter on the Avrilbandaids page recorded 1.3 million views , however the views on the video only went up by the standard 150,000 for the day, which is always the case for that video. shortly after that Youtube disabled the ability to view the video from a frame within a page. so now 1 month later it finally passed EOD, which if you look at the history of gains for “Girlfriend” over “EOD” you will notice that that works out perfectly, as Girlfriend usually gets about 20k to 30k more views per day, (all of this information is available on TubeMogul). now 5 days after it overtook EOD it has 100k more views which again is exactly on track. “Girlfreind” has always been getting closer and closer to overtaking the top spot on youTube, and it finally did .

The fact is that “girlfriend” was in second place for a year, and it was always getting more views per day, so it was just a matter of time before it overtook EOD. The most interesting fact is that the Girlfriend video cannot be embedded like EOD, so all of those views came from people watching it on Youtube, Unlike EOD which is placed all over the web.