Whoever said that Lady Gage wasn't an innovative, avant-garde artist may be right, but how do you explain her accomplishment of passing 1 billion views on her viral videos?
Surprisingly, Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat" video is currently ranked as the number 1 watched video of all time at 722 million views. However, Lady Gage just soared to the top of the charts as the first artist to pass one billion views across three of her extremely popular videos including "Poker Face" with 375 million views, "Bad Romance" with 360 million views, and "Just Dance" with 273 million views. How's that for measuring popularity? If not popularity, then it's just plain curiosity.
But how are these extraordinary numbers calculated to the tee? Visible Measures estimates views across all the major video-sharing sites including the embedded links. They just updated their Hundred Million Views Club of viral videos, but essentially there is no guarantee that the numbers are exactly accurate because some smaller videos sites may not have been taken into account. So far, there are 65 videos with over 100 million views, with most of them music videos.
Some of the most popular videos demanded today include Beyonce's "Single Ladies", Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle, and the Twilight Saga trailers reaching 984 million views. But some user-generated videos about kids have created quite a stir among web browsers of all generations from YouTube: Charlie Bit My Finger Again (with 289 million views) and David After Dentist (with 113 million views).
Who knew that a simple home video could create so much buzz with such little effort?
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