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Old 31st May 2019, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by kaled kalil View Post
Has Shake Hip gone viral in some way? I'm looking at her youtube views and it's so weird that the video is about to hit 1kk views....

Even some songs that I don't think were that popular are with very high number views.

SHAKE IT 3.60kk
JUICY 2.3kk
Promise 1.4kk and so on.
Probably got more attention because of Megumi no Hito.
Shake Hip! is also one of the rare full version uploads.

Let's take a look at her youtube stats for official uploads in general.

01. Megumi no Hito (1 chorus version) 9 million
02. you (short version) 5.68 million
03. Butterfly (short version) 5.18 million
04. Cutie Honey (short version) 5.15 million
05. Moon Crying (short version) 4.4 million
06. Suki de, suki de, suki de [lyric video] 3.8 million
07. Won't Be Long (short version) 3.7 million
08. SHAKE IT (short version) 3.6 million
09. Someday (short version) 2.6 million
10. It's all Love (short version) 2.4 million
11. JUICY (short version) 2.3 million
12. Crazy 4 U (short version) 2.2 million
13. Koi no Tsubomi (short version) 2.1 million
14. Lollipop (short version) 2 million
15. you [full live version from The Artist] 1.9 million
16. Suki de, suki de, suki de (short version) 1.8 million
17. TABOO (short version) 1.7 million
18. Love Me Back (short version) 1.68 million
19. LALALALALA (short version) 1.64 million
20. Promise (short version) 1.45 million
21. No Regret (short version) 1.43 million

Quite a lot of videos coming with about 1 million views (like WIND, Ai wo tomenaide, Yume no Uta, Lick me, Dreaming Now!, Physical thing, Cherry Girl, BUT...) after that.

For her newer songs:
LIT (full version) 1.2 million
HUSH (full version) 725.432
PARTY (short version) 737.788
Haircut (short version) 514.215

The DNA Tour spot/CM is at 326.259 views, which is pretty good for a tour, too. For comparison - the TRICK Tour spot from 2009 is around 600k views, the WOML Tour spot from 2015 at around 180k, for The Artist at 90k, BSC Tour from 2016 at around 100k and so on.

avex is uploading full versions of older videos on youtube premium now, so the short version tactic probably won't change in the future.

Interesting to note, that avex created its official youtube account only in 2008 and Kuu got her official youtube account only in 2010 - ayu e.g. was faster with 2005.
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Last edited by Corvina; 31st May 2019 at 11:53 AM.