If anything, I would have thought that "Backstreet's Back" would get that achievement. and our girl Britney has never been big on that, even if she is definitely one of the undisputed video queens.īut again, wow at BSB. I feel like videos that achieve such huge amount of views get them because they are mostly big on radio (and now streaming). And I didn't know that Reik song was that big? "Hips Don't Lie" was a worldwide phenomenon so I get it, and "I Want It That Way" was huuuge but like 10 years before, so I think it's impressive it's about to reach 1B views alongside other much more recent smash hits. Then I'm not sure exactly how many views the Circus videos had in 2009, but they weren't that many either. Probably just GM, because those two videos were the latest at the time. POM was the only one that had like 80M views in 2008, but the rest weren't even at 50M. I Want It That Way and Hips Don't Lie were uploaded in 2009 just like most of Britney's videos, so they had the same chance.Īlso that myth of Britney's videos having lots of views before VEVO is false. Shakira as recently as 2020 uploaded three old videos. But again, that was the case with most artists. VEVO accounts started in 2009, so if artists had another channel for their videos, they were removed for them, and then uploaded to the VEVO accounts which were now the official youtube channels.įor whatever reason not all videos got uploaded, MATM and Someday weren't uploaded until 2011 and Do Somethin' in 2015 I think. That wasn't just Britney, but all artists.
I don't remember which videos were taken down but I believe BOMT and OIDIA were among them.
Probably if that didn't happen she would be much closer or even have reached the 1B mark.