YouTube Madness: Old Music Videos

This is the first installment of our YouTube Madness series in which a collection of similar YouTube videos will be viewed, briefly judged, and then the number of previous views will be recorded and checked again roughly twenty-four hours later to see how many views have accumulated.


1) Terror Squad - Lean Back ft. Fat Joe

As you can see, this video has been watched an astonishing 4.29 MILLION times.  That's a total of over twenty million minutes spent watching Fat Joe.  Jesus.  At this rate.....wait a minute it was released in 2009...Oh God...Oh sweet Jesus.  There have only been 1,051,200 minutes since 2009. That means that at any given time, there are about 19 people watching this music video.    All day.  All night. 

Prediction: This video had to be front-loaded with views, right?  Right?  700 VIEWS

One Day View Total: 6,390 Views

Reaction: WHAT theeeee..........

2) Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

I'm not going to give the same mathematical breakdown for this video, but you can do some estimating in your head and realize that it's still pretty fucked up.  Celine Dion used to be a legitimate force in the music world. 

Prediction: This is a timeless classic that aged well and women are always sad.  1,200 VIEWS

One Day View Total: 11,155 Views

Reaction: Wow I really underestimated these views.

3) Wreckx-N-Effect - Rumpshaker

Alright, now this is getting exciting.  A user-added video with a sexual-sounding name and a MASSIVE number of views.  This video keeps it real in ways that Celine Dion can only fantasize about.  Major props to the 3,830,070 people that took time out of their days to support this video.

Prediction: Wreckx-N-Effect be crazy, yo.  300 VIEWS

One Day View Total: 3,600 Views

Reaction: Seems about right, comparatively.

4) Creed - Higher (Video)

This video should speak directly into the hearts of the kind of dirt balls that made YouTube into the intolerant, hate-spewing dumpster fire that it has become.  Somehow, this video only has about 3.3M views...something has got to give.

Prediction: Creed was actually cool for a while...a long, sad time ago.  150 VIEWS

One Day View Total: 8,705 Views

Reaction: Garbage music for people that like garbage. (Joke assist to Graham Clark)

5) Bad Company - Bad Company

This isn't even a music video, but this song kicks so much ass that 2,788,105 of the biggest badasses decided to listen to the audio without any visual stimulation.  

Prediction: Should be more, but this video can't get more than 100 VIEWS.

One Day View Total: 4,920 Views

Reaction: Good work, everyone.

I'm really going to have to come up with a more scientific way to estimate these views for next week's topic: Fetish Videos