It looks like three major record companies – Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG and RCA Records – are in hot water with YouTube. According to The Daily Dot, the popular Internet video provider has stripped the three music groups of more than 2 billion falsified video views.
Last week, YouTube’s parent company Google retracted upwards of 2 billion views from videos published by UMG, Sony/BMG and RCA. These views are believed to be the product of “black hat” view count-building techniques, in which third-party companies inflate the total view tallies as a means to manipulate a video’s popularity and its increase exposure on YouTube.
The biggest offender of the three record houses was Universal Music Group, who was stripped of over a billion views out of its total 7 billion hits. Sony/BMG and RCA were hardly spared either, with the two companies losing 850 million and 159 million views, respectively.
Yet these lost views aren’t the only punitive measures that Google has taken against the three companies. All but five of UMG’s published videos have been deleted from its channel, while the number of videos on Sony’s channel has been pared down to three.
Google’s crackdown on these black hat views has affected more than 500 different official artist channels, including channels for Chris Brown, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson and many more.
UMG is the first of the three companies to acknowledge its dip in views, and cited its shift to publishing videos on VEVO as the reason why its YouTube channel had been downsized. DX will keep you updated as more information comes to light.
Ain’t that some shit?
worldstar hiphop and datpiff also take money from artists and labels for fake views and downloads
truth. and obvious
We need to expose them too
lol they’re going to take these posts down lol
I knew something was fishy, so many views for bullshit records. YouTube trying to help rebuild hip hop credibility. From the jump, I knew there was an agenda behind that VEVO shit.
First ever well written article by sean ryon.
as stated below, other sites are guilty of this. Except they get away with. It was always laughable to me how people actually believed that meek mill got millions of downloads on his mixtape on datpiff. After his first week sales i thought peopel would have caught on to the bullshit and manipulation of numbers as a false marketing strategy, but some people still holding on to that shit. get all the way the fuck out of here.
ahahahahah fuck chris brown and his girly ass voice
Did they delete the views or the video though???
heres the numbers of fake views if you’re interested
universalmusicgroup -1,015,800,118
sonybmg -851,488,973
BritneyTV -462,567,893
jawed -326,360,381
michaeljackson -287,341,860
hollywoodrecords -251,531,439
ChrisBrownTV -187,412,448
RCARecords -159,532,674
beyonce -151,445,205
linkinparktv -146,017,677
shakira -137,394,924
AvrilLavigne -124,277,862
MoTv1 -116,394,756
TPainVideos -110,169,389
JordinSparks -107,013,443
kellyclarkson -95,918,188
ushertv -82,616,548
CiaraTV -79,535,904
systemofadown -78,234,702
justintimberlakeTV -75,011,470
PinkVideoVault -74,924,862
blackeyedpeasvideo -66,523,729
RKellyTV -57,695,213
PitbullMusic -49,666,988
taylorswift -48,653,985
ChristinaAguilera -46,542,374
KardinalOffishall416 -37,925,779
prettyrickyvideos -33,191,497
WeirdAlTV -32,561,762
kennychesney -28,989,842
PliesWorld -17,134,607
kesha -15,607,816
PitbullVEVO -11,483,509
ha ha the truth is out
i knew it
too bad they can’t unwarp these young childrens minds that will never see this post because they are watching rick ross and linkin park on you tube right now
it’s sad how a number of views and fake popularity works on our feeble minded society where these kids have to leave it to others to decide if they like something
example of sadness…
boy clicks on niki to see her ass…. you might also like this
boy clicks on Rick Ross… oh millions of views this must be good let me act like and idiot like that and i will be cool
I knew no one liked this shit
no YMCMB or MMG?? i know some of yall mad…
im sure ymcmb falls under universal music group
There was no way Plies and Kardinal Offishall had that many views hahahaahah
you forgot to mention that fraud j cole
PLIES, LOL
BRUH BRUH! LMAO!!!
MMG
MMG HAHA
MMG lol! That was William Roberts and co. wasn’t it? No wonder he trying to switch labels n shit.. fucking coward. Now we’re just waiting for the death threats towards him to fall through, and him letting go of the name he stole. Maybe those things will come hand in hand.
YMCMB anyone,lol
hahahahahhahahahahaha.. I knew it. I was either losing faith in society or knew something was up. And thank you DX for finally posting something that isn’t BS.
For real
how does this make your life better. you sound pathetic.you “real hip hop” still floppin on the chart. why does someone elses misfortune make you feel better. misery loves company
Someone misfortunes? They faked it! Thats no misfortune that’s some scandalous shit, some corrupt shit that needs to be dealt with. Its everyone else misfortune that they re in a industry that blocks them out and fakes views to make the less relevant. Get your mind correct nigga! These rich fucks give no shit about you, yet your dumb ass defense them.
Yeah real hip hop flopping that’s why Kendrick Lamar has the top selling rap album of the year unless you count Nicki Minaj.
i wasnt talking about kendrick. i was talking about the “real hip hop” genre you hipster faggots have been crying about for the last 7 years.
Kendrick Lamar is “real hip hop”.
Anonymous #2, the reason it makes me feel better is because you, a fan of the fake bullshit, feels worse.. “how does this make your life better”, who the fuck mentioned their life getting better? You may as well admit this article made your bitch ass life worse.. go cry yourself to sleep with the realization that not as many people are listening to YMCMB as you thought.
Just exposed the fake ass corrupt music industry even more. Good job youtube.
ja Rule has real views though
that why he sold 3900 first week?
i love this guy always bringz the rule lulz
Wow, what a surprise!
Now when is HHDX going to admit it’s own policies, how major labels pay $$$ for song and article placement, with the ‘understanding’ of a postitive review when the time comes?
Ya’ll are fucking corrupt too!!!
I doubt that, seriously.
hhdx takes most of their content from other hiphop websites then they pay jews to write their album reviews
Haha you wish. HiphopDX is a dime a dozen.
Best comment: “Stop Hustling backwards.” 2-Chainz for the Grammy nod? Album of the year? Hahahahahahah! Lupe! Chritiano Can! Saigon! We need you!!!!
Ok.
Good!
Good! Get that bullshit out of here
you hipsters have such low expectations in your life you take this as some sot of victory. you favorite underground rappers still have 3000 views. and katy perry still has over 20 million. this ….changes…..nothing. smh maybe you should worry about actually buying albums and support your favorite rappers instead of praying for the downfall of the ones you dont like. stop hustling backwards.
Nice way to stereotype every ass hole. This is fair anyway you look at it, weather you are a underground fan or mainstream. o take your simple ass somewhere else and cry nigga.
Lol someone sounds upset. Of course Its a victory for my favourite “underground” acts that are on “3000” views. It has less to do with the fake views YouTube had to remove and more to do with the shady practice of number fixing itself, but if thats the sort of shit you support I can’t stop you from “hustling forwards” dumbass mutherfucker.
None of my favorite underground rappers have 3000 views, your the typical douche who thinks rappers that arent on TV have no fans. Most of my favorite Indy acts have at least a couple videos with over a million plays.
Doesn’t change the fact that Universal & them other cats had to cheat to make it seem like there artist are more popular then they are to trick the rest of the sheep into following suit
Next time you Posty just type “Bahh Bahh” as your screen name
28,000 veiws for the average underground rapper/emcee
fuck youtube tho
listen to full albums
GO CHECK YOUTUBE YMCMB VIEWS IS STILL UP THERE. THATS BECAUSE WE MAKE STARS AT YMCMB NO REASON TO FAKE VIEWS IF YOU ARE ON A WINNING TEAM.
CO FUCKING SIGN MAN
Oh, shut up, YESSIR.
THATS THE SHIT I DO LIKE
Commercial Mothertruckers
J Cole and Beyonce are both on Sony/Columbia………lol
This comes as a surprise to none in the know.
Who cares i got 4 million views just putting up styles p jadakiss freestyles n stuff i wanted to hear i dont care bout gettin as many views as i can i just love hip hop so uploaded the stuff like thats why i aint even gon write my utube channel name
No one cares about your wack freestyles.
I thought Jay-Z told us numbers do not lie? Looks like they do!
follow at noles506
Yeah and his artist J Cole is a prime example of numbers lying.
Im not surprised by this at all… Some of those videos have ridiculous numbers attached to them. And they get popular so fast…It made no sense. Now im just waiting for them to expose record sales… Drake: 600,000?? while Nicki Minaj: 200,000+ BULLSHIT! Kendrick Lamar and J Cole 200,000+? BULLSHIT Adele, Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift… All these peoples sales are fake as fuck.
Looking at Kendrick’s buzz, the success of Swimming Pools, and his sales after the first week I can see how he might have sold 240,000 first week. It looks a bit high but I can definitely see it. Adele and Taylor Swift’s sales may have been boosted a bit by labels but the vast majority was fans.. look how big they were
Wayne selling more then Recovery first week looks a bit fake to me so I think the label bought 250,000+
Cole had a huge following
Drake’s on his way to being the most popular rapper once Lil Wayne starts dieing out and Eminem stops rapping so his sales are legit
What is really fake is mixtape downloads..
and MMG clearly leads with fake downloads
How does Meek Mill do over 2 million first day while the site crashes…? And then a year later hasn’t even doubled his FIRST DAY downloads?
Rick Ross’ downloads look really fake too.
KENDRICK HAD DRE BUY HIS ALBUMS YMCMB HAS BUZZ NIGGA WE WINNING OVER HEAR U NOTICE THAT OUR VIEWS STAYED THE SAME THATS CUS PEOPLE LOVE YMCMB
Adele her sales are not fake
Shut up, YESSIR. Nobody wants you to spew your bullshit everywhere. Kendrick’s album sales are legit, neither Dre or Interscope bought anything. Stop making excuses.
Every single record company has fake views. Even independent channels can hustle fake views.
Lmao at people who really thought Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj could get half a billion views for bullshit pop songs.
J Cole is on Sony, so his career is the fraud….lol
why is this not bigger news?! wtf?! now you can literally see with proof who’s trying to be the Jesus to the sheep! how many of you idiots will continue to support things that make money and try to say its some kind of “grind”? NOW do you see what happens when a bunch of heads follow shiny shit? played
right on brotha
Sounds like it worked to me… UMG gained 7 billion Views from the 1 billions fake views. They won regardless. Still a total of 6 billion views. No one is even going to notice, or care for that matter. Who gives a fuck
SERIOUSLY
SLAP YO’SELF IF U THINK A BIL OF FAKE VIEWS GENERATED THOSE MANY AUTHENTIC ONES
ISSUE HERE IS CLOWNS LIKE U WILL FALL 4 ANYTHING THAT’S Y THEY DO IT IN THE 1ST PLACE
U AIN’T CHECKING IT BECAUSE IT’S GOOD U PEEPING BECAUSE IT’S POPULAR LIKE THAT “TRENDING” FCUKBOI SH!T Y’ALL PARTICIPATE IN DAILY
& U SO SOFT IN UR MENTAL U JUST HEARD THEY FCUKING WITH YO INTELLIGENCE & BASICALLY ROBBING U BLIND
& U COSIGNING SAYING “Sounds like it worked to me…”
LMMFBAO
SMH
& U IPO’D THAT THOUGHT LIKE THE PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT
LOL
J Cole’s views and sales are fake as $2 bill.
LMAO this dude thinks 2 dollar bills are fake
I have a $2 bill and I can assure you that it’s real.
i got a few $2 bills from back in the day but i live in canada eh
wow smh
$2 bills are real you idiot.
The fuck?
“Mainstream” music must really be at an “all time low” when you have to perpetrate a fraud just to get people to pay attention to artists. “Mainstream” nowadays is like fast food it doesn’t stick to with you, you just shit it out and move on. It’s sad really, because real artists that are about their craft can’t get exposure but, talentless hacks get exposure because of their “connections”.
You’re gay. You’re illuminati.
fuck underground fans.
youtube HATES how this guy works, he sells you youtube views and likes and they can’t stop him. Check him out http://seomixture.com/.
What if twitter start deleting all of the fake followers from them also…
Thanks for the laugh geeks i can’t get enough of you clowns.
I heard that. One of the reasons why I come to this shithole site is to get a crack of these commentators.
i been knew that majority of labels been doing this all your favorite rappers with all that hype behind them they be buying youtube views
Gay? What’s gay is the sheep that don’t even realize that they’re being conned into buying bullshit because it’s popular. Keep following the herd.
umm, who gives a shit.
You do. You commented.
GOOGLE NIGGAAAAAAAAA!!!
GOOGLE > APPLE
What some of you don’t realize is that this is fraud. These companies as well as many individuals get a share of the profits from advertisements in the partnership program. They get paid per view, that’s why you see ads on some of the videos because they chose to monetize the videos. You have a choice when in the program to monetize or not to monetize your uploads to YT. What you make back ranges from $0.07 to I believe $0.13 per view. Now add 1 billion views to those pennies and you get a nice fat knot. YT considers views just like currency so if you break the rules your channel could be deleted, but in this case that would be major fraud on the label’s end and they would open themselves up to major lawsuits and possible criminal investigations.
No, I had a few friends that did the same thing, the views count but they don’t get money from ads, they just get more exposure on youtube, which leads to real views, which leads to money to everyone in the program (uploader, advertisers, youtube…). YT used to allow some people with partnership to get away with it so that they got more views, but they don’t anymore.
What you don’t realize is that there is no way Youtube is paying between 7 and 13 cents per view. Try dividing that figure by 10 and halving it twice – you might be nearer.
Katy Perry and Taylor swift have had 13 billion views between them which by your reckoning would have cost Youtube between $910 milion and $1.69 billion!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SIGRmuvHc plz watch 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SIGRmuvHc