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Official YouTube VEVO stats for MJ

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I made this summary. I did not count Making of videos, remixes. Videos over 100 million views get Vevo certified. So MJ has 8 Vevo certified videos so far.

1. Thriller 244,055,714 (+16,925,403 short version)
2. They Don't Care About Us (Brazil version) 156,295,162 (+3,361,696 prison version)
3. Billie Jean 152,113,680
4. Beat It (digitally restored) 129,512,023 (+51,613,374 not digitally restored)
5. Bad 112,320,476
6. The Way You Make Me Feel 111,013,733
7. Love Never Felt So Good (JT duet) 106,611,918 (+17,526,445 audio)
8. Remember The Time 105,635,593
9. Black or White 81,863,680
10. You Are Not Alone 80,912,303
11. You Rock My World (extended version) 75,204,686 (+21,492,391 short version)
12. Hold My Hand 72,983,842
13. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 68,989,829
14. Earth Song 62,995,161
15. Heal The World 46,306,187
16. Scream 42,451,791
17. Hollywood Tonight 38,381,751
18. Rock with You 37,019,561
19. Slave to the Rhythm (hologram) 35,399,137
20. Man in the Mirror 34,882,733
21. Ghosts (short version) 32,637,804
22. Give in to Me 23,910,676
23. Jam 19,923,214
24. Blood on the Dance Floor 17,626,310
25. Stranger in Moscow 16,910,965
26. Smooth Criminal 16,750,810
27. Leave Me Alone 15,327,340
28. Liberian Girl 12,983,086
29. Dirty Diana (Wembley 1988) 11,557,043
30. A Place with No Name 10,488,614
31. Cry 9,736,127
32. She's Out of My Life 8,671,200
33. Blame It on the Boogie 8,512,252
34. Human Nature (Wembley 1988) 7,766,553
35. Another Part of Me (video version) 6,786,110
36. Love Never Felt So Good (solo) 6,413,662 (+5,300,611 audio)
37. Behind The Mask (fan version) 5,828,282
38. Who Is It (video montage version) 5,449,068
39. Will You Be There 5,262,677
40. Gone Too Soon 4,114,888
41. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Wembley 1988) 3,548,857
42. Speed Demon 3,415,595
43. One More Chance 3,386,861
44. In The Closet 1,800,614
45. Come Together 1,714,336
46. Another Part of Me (Wembley 1988) 1,537,408
47. Childhood 1,293,543
48. Enjoy Yourself (from Vision) 1,014,704

Some notes:

They Don't Care About Us prison version: an unofficial channel had this version for a long time with a lot more views than the official Vevo channel (IIRC it had some 50 million views or so), but apparently it's been removed now.

Smooth Criminal: It is uploaded on a lot of unofficial channels. That's why the official one has so few views relatively (considering it's widely viewed as one of MJ's best videos). Eg. this one has more views than the one on the official channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLykurJIMA

The official Dirty Diana video is not on Vevo.

The official Who Is It video is not on Vevo. This unofficial upload has over 12 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENC5MEzrRp8

The most popular upload of In The Closet (over 8 million views) is also not the one on the official channel but this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbl_ctRj8C8
 
Dirty Diana official video actually is on there, it just has the live performance as a thumbnail. I thought the same thing for a long time.
 
^why doesn't it have a Vevo logo. This makes it look like a fan uploaded it.

I was just reading Michael's stat page of the cities with the most views. In the US New York is the highest. But the next US city is Houston Texas. That's where I am and I know no one who is a Michael fan.
I wonder how many of these views are me. Lol.

I'm joking but I do listen to playlists thru YouTube rather than Spotify or pandora.
 
Fanbase overview (since September 2014)


Countries (Top 8)
1. United States
234,140,000 total views


2. Mexico
132,466,457 total views


3. Brazil
116,471,393 total views


4. United Kingdom
65,389,779 total views


5. France
51,084,873 total views


6. Argentina
40,270,230 total views


7. Colombia
36,082,508 total views


8. Spain
35,758,828 total views


Top tracks (Top 8) (since September 2014)
This artist's top tracks on YouTube, based on views of official and fan-uploaded videos since September 2014


1. Thriller
225,026,886 total views


2. Scream
86,024,120 total views


3. Love Never Felt So Good
80,805,937 total views


4. Beat It
77,763,918 total views


5. Smooth Criminal (Radio Edit)
70,390,196 total views


6. The Way You Make Me Feel
58,543,399 total views


7. Bad
45,969,371 total views


8. Earth Song
44,073,074 total views

An artist's "total views" is based on both official and fan-uploaded videos claimed using Content ID. It includes data from September 2014 onwards.

Thanks Erika23.
 
Cities with the most views of MJ videos:

1. Mexico City (Mexico) 30,219,177
2. Sao Paulo (Brazil) 18,396,510
3. London (UK) 16,227,778
4. Santiago (Chile) 16,036,778
5. Bogotá (Columbia) 14,096,265
6. Buenos Aires (Argentina) 13,076,901
7. New York City (USA) 12,114,800
8. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 11,007,808
9. Paris (France) 8,404,056
10. Quezon City (Philippines) 7,539,186
 
Does this September 2014 date mean total views from September thru now?

So this is all in less than a year? (Sorry-just want to understand the stats).
 
barbee0715 said:
Does this September 2014 date mean total views from September thru now?

So this is all in less than a year? (Sorry-just want to understand the stats).
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From YT:

How we calculate your total views
An artist's "total views" is based on both official and fan-uploaded videos claimed using Content ID. It includes data from September 2014 onwards.
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BTW, I made a little analysis today and it seems to confirm what we often discuss that MJ is popular among a more culturally diverse audience than either the Beatles or Elvis. For example, he is a lot more popular in Arab and/or Muslim countries or in Africa.
 
respect77;4094049 said:
Cities with the most views of MJ videos:

1. Mexico City (Mexico) 30,219,177
2. Sao Paulo (Brazil) 18,396,510
3. London (UK) 16,227,778
4. Santiago (Chile) 16,036,778
5. Bogotá (Columbia) 14,096,265
6. Buenos Aires (Argentina) 13,076,901
7. New York City (USA) 12,114,800
8. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 11,007,808
9. Paris (France) 8,404,056
10. Quezon City (Philippines) 7,539,186
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Interesting list.

It surprises me that Tokyo & Moscow are not included in this top 10 list.
 
mj_frenzy said:
Interesting list.

It surprises me that Tokyo & Moscow are not included in this top 10 list.
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I was analyzing the countries list today and Russia generally isn't that high on this list (#17). Japan is at #9.

You also have to calculate the general development of a country. For example, while Russia has a huge population (about 140 million people) but probably not as many people have and use the Internet as in the Western world. Same goes for African countries - even though a couple of them still showed up among Michael's Top 100 countries (South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Senegal).
 
This has been pretty interesting. I looked up a couple of people like Bruno Mars for example. His stats are high, but no cities in US in top 10. Janet Jackson for example had several US cities but not high.
Very fun to look at this.
 
barbee0715 said:
This has been pretty interesting. I looked up a couple of people like Bruno Mars for example. His stats are high, but no cities in US in top 10. Janet Jackson for example had several US cities but not high.
Very fun to look at this.
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Actually I did a little analysis today. For example comparing the view numbers of a country to its population.

Then you have this order:

1. Chile (27,692,934 views/population: 18,006,407=154%)
2. Trinidad and Tobago 152%
3. Mexico 110%
4. Hungary 107%
5. Georgia 106%
6. Netherlands 103%
7. UK 103%
8. Denmark 99%
9. Argentina 96%
(...)
27. USA 74%

This same stat for the Beatles is:

1. Argentina 76%
2. Chile 71%
3. Uruguay 65%
4. Israel 63%
5. Mexico 61%
6. UK 58%
7. Canada 51%
8. Georgia 50%
9. Slovenia 46%
10. Czech Republic 46%
11. USA 44%

For Elvis:

1. Chile 109%
2. Netherlands 82%
3. Norway 70%
4. Sweden 70%
5. Canada 67%
6. UK 66%
7. Slovenia 63%
8. Finland 60%
9. Denmark 57%
10. Switzerland 50%
(...)
24. USA 34%

Comparing MJ with the Beatles and Elvis. The Beatles are not more popular anywhere. Elvis is slightly more popular in two countries, Norway and Finland, everywhere else MJ is more popular. The Beatles are closest to MJ in popularity in the following countries:

1. Israel
2. Argentina
3. Uruguay
4. Slovenia
5. Germany
6. Indonesia
7. Canada
8. Finland
9. Ireland
10. USA

As I said Elvis is slightly more popular in Finland and Norway, apart from those everywhere else MJ is more popular, so the Top 10 countries where they are closest in popularity are:

1. Finland
2. Norway
3. Slovenia (here and from here down MJ is already more popular)
4. Thailand
5. Canada
6. Sweden
7. Netherlands
8. Austria
9. Croatia
10. Chile

Michael's advantage compared to both the Beatles and Elvis becomes the biggest in Arab and/or Muslim countries and in countries which are not considered Western in culture. For example:

Saudi Arabia views:

MJ: 12,761,890
Beatles: 700,046
Elvis: 1,781,018

Egypt:

MJ: 6,807,098
Beatles: 247,480
Elvis: 486,323

Iraq

MJ: 3,974,263
Beatles: 47,416
Elvis: 580,367

Tunisia

MJ: 4,221,129
Beatles: 170,262
Elvis: 302,598

Kuwait

MJ: 1,985,758
Beatles: 40,041
Elvis: 206,644

Qatar

MJ: 1,481,282
Beatles: 152,749
Elvis: 181,546

There's also a big difference in countries like

India

MJ: 19,022,264
Beatles: 2,910,988
Elvis: 2,055,315

Vietnam

MJ: 17,944,190
Beatles: 2,947,851
Elvis: 1,281,117

Jamaica

MJ: 1,981,636
Beatles: 29,488
Elvis: 127,002

Bangladesh

MJ: 2,127,305
Beatles: 166,962
Elvis: 97,787

Michael had views from Kenya (1,045,354), Tanzania (646,104), Oman (745,882), Senegal (604,549). Neither the Beatles or Elvis had these countries in their Top 100.

As for Japan (because it was mentioned above):

MJ: 36,150,546
Beatles: 20,955,040
Elvis: 9,040,067
 
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