By the Numbers - Pearl Jam Views on YouTube... interesting

evsgjamm

JANUARY 9, 2020 UPDATE: Top viewed PJ songs on YouTube are: (excluding song doubles. For example, if Black has two videos, one with 33M and one with 17M... just the 33M is listed in this update)

Black: 150M (up from 39M in Jan 2017) (up from 33.6M in Jan 2014)
Jeremy: 113M (up from 58.8M in Jan 2017) (up from 18.5M in Jan 2014 - WHHHAAAT THE FUCK? this doesn't make a hairy lick of sense... youtube is messing up the numbers imo.)
Even Flow: 95M (up from 55M in Jan 2017) (up from 17.3M in Jan 2014)
Alive: 67M (up from 49M in Jan 2017) (up from 13.2M in Jan 2014) - wow.... by this stage in my research I am blown away at the mega jump in numbers. I've been compiling this over the years, taking the top two videos on YouTube to account for my numbers. shit be craaaayyyyyyyfish
YLB: 122M (up from 45M in Jan 2017- sticking with my original "top 3 vids total" I guess lol) (up from 12.5M - I took the top 3 videos to get to 45M)
Last Kiss: 30M (up from 11.8M in Jan 2017- top 4 videos taken)
Just Breathe: 86M (up from 51M in Jan 2017 - again, I added the top 4 just to stick with my own weirdness) (up from 10.7M) - I added a shitload of the top videos to get 51M - blazing politician I could be.
Do The Evolution:  39M (up from 18M in Jan 2017) (up from 8.2M)
Sirens: 18M (up from 6.9M in Jan 2017) (WEIRD!! As of Fridayyyyy, Januaryyyyyy 6th, 2017, Sirens top two videos combine for a total of 5.9M views.... wtf is going on here? RIGGED!)

Sirens, a 5 month old infant song living a strong healthy early life, has moved up the ranks very quickly in the PJ catalogue according to this "study."

AS OF SEPT 20, 2013 (Scroll down for Oct 16, 2013 update)

Black: 32.4 million, posted 7 years ago by Nothingman54
Black: 17.3 million, posted 2 years ago by dedhor1
Jeremy: 16.3 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Even Flow: 15.9 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Alive: 13 million, posted 7 years ago by Peter Murphy
Last Kiss: 11.5 million, posted 6 years ago by HellYeaNixon
Alive: 11.5 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Yellow Ledbetter: 11.1 million, posted 5 years ago by osliczka13
Just Breathe: 10.7 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Just Breathe: 10.2 million, posted 4 years ago by Paula Correa
Do the Evolution: 7.5 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Yellow Ledbetter (MISHEARD LYRICS): 7.2 million, posted 6 years ago by misheardlyricsguy
Last Kiss: 6.9 million, posted 6 years ago by GURGEL777
Jeremy: 6.4 million, posted 7 years ago by HyLeRo
Black: 6.1 million, posted 6 years ago by ryn11jubel
I Am Mine: 5.7 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
Yellow Ledbetter (live): 5.3 million, posted 7 years ago by Roger Moran
Just Breathe: 4.2 million, posted 4 years ago by slack sparrow
Society (Ed and Johnny Depp): 3.9 million, posted 3 years ago by albawild
Just Breathe (unofficial video): 3.9 million, posted 4 years ago by universalmusicitalia
Black: 3.5 million, posted 7 years ago by sofalp
Better Man: 3.4 million, posted 6 years ago by oblwankubrick
The End: 3.3 million, posted 4 years ago by Paula Correa
Last Kiss: 3.3 million, posted 5 years ago by SadgasmoS
Alive: 3.3 million, posted 5 years ago by K1ll3rM4st3r
...
... (many more Alive, Last Kiss, Black, Even Flow)
...
Indifference: 3 million, posted 7 years ago by Mikanelas
Oceans: 2.9 million, posted 3 years ago by PearljamVEVO
...
... (then more Last Kiss, Alive, Just Breathe, Betterman)
Rockin in the Free World (With Neil Young): 2.6 million, 6 years ago
The Fixer: 2.5 million
Corduroy: 2.4 million
Hard Sun: 2.4 million
Daughter: 2.4 million
Society: 2.3 million
Can't Keep (Music video): 2.2 million
Once: 2 million
...
... (then some weird shit happens... dude singing "Better Man" on Philipino Idol): 1.9 million
Wishlist: 1.9 million
Nothingman: 1.8 million
....
..... (more weird shit... dude covering Jeremy on iTunes and Spotify) 1.7 million
Mind Your Manners: 1.7 million
MTV Unplugged (complete): 1.6 million
Given To Fly: 1.6 million
Unthought Known: 1.5 million
Animal: 1.4 million

Ladies 'n germs.... THAT was INTERESTING for me :shock: and a bit goofy I admit.. went on too long

EDIT: SEPT 23, 2013: Sirens now has 1.2 million views, up from the approx 650,000 views that it had when I made this post on Sept 20. She's climbing the ladder nicely

EDIT: Oct 16, 2013: One day after the release of Lightning Bolt, Sirens now has 2.6 million views putting it above the ranks of "The Fixer", "Corduroy", "Daughter" and "Given To Fly."

BLACK35

30 million of the 32.4 million hits on Black belong too Dimistris

PJ Fan est. 1990

evsgjamm wrote:

Yellow Ledbetter (MISHEARD LYRICS): 7.2 million, posted 6 years ago by misheardlyricsguy

Man, I love this one. I find myself singing the misheard version everytime I'm trying to sing the real song (by real I mean how it is on the recording, I'm aware of the impromptu nature of the song)

"...Anna no, Anna no, I don't wanna shaaaaaaavveee it off..."

dimitrispearljam

BLACK35 wrote:

30 million of the 32.4 million hits on Black belong too Dimistris

:shh: ..

the sure is, im the one watched the most of times this one!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BlueyXoyg

SVRDhand13

Black is the best song of all time

Given2Fly-Fish

BLACK35 wrote:

30 million of the 32.4 million hits on Black belong too Dimistris

Kimmiebyrom

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Black is the best song of all time

Gotta agree with that one.

dimitrispearljam

Kimmiebyrom wrote:

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Black is the best song of all time

Gotta agree with that one.

Word

BLACK35

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Black is the best song of all time

for me, the best song in Rock N Roll history.

I wonder how many times I have actually listened to the song :geek:

dimitrispearljam

BLACK35 wrote:

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Black is the best song of all time

for me, the best song in Rock N Roll history.

I wonder how many times I have actually listened to the song :geek:

for me,Black is the best song i the history of music!!

BLACK35

dimitrispearljam wrote:

BLACK35 wrote:

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Black is the best song of all time

for me, the best song in Rock N Roll history.

I wonder how many times I have actually listened to the song :geek:

for me,Black is the best song i the history of music!!

your a very smart man

evsgjamm

One day after the release of Lightning Bolt and the Sirens video (2.6+ million YouTube views) has now surpassed the ranks of The Fixer, Corduroy, Given To Fly and many other classics. Way to go Sirens!

dimitrispearljam

fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

evsgjamm

Sirens is turning 5 months old in a few more hours: How has "she" faired on the YouTube charts? I've posted an update at the top of page 1 (which looks like it might be just.. this..... page)

Driven1287

It's tough to compare songs on YouTube. You can look at it and say, "Sirens was a bigger hit than Just Breathe" based on the views alone. I do think it was a bigger hit, but you can't only look at the views. Youtube is at its height of popularity and marketing right now. Pearl Jam promoted Sirens and their new album big on Youtube. So just for the fact that Just Breathe came out four years ago means that, all things equal, it's not going to get the same sort of views.

More recent songs in general will get more views, that's why you see songs like The End on there.

Just because Jimmy Fallon gets huge views on Youtube doesn't mean that it got better ratings than Letterman 10 years ago.

Then there are the live performances, the music videos, etc. I mean if Betterman had a music video, or Last Kiss, or whatever. how would it have faired? Granted, that black video on Youtube is just a live performance.

The views are interesting to look at but you can't really take anything away from them.

evsgjamm

Other than how interesting they are. Furthermore, It's easy to compare songs on YouTube, when you're just looking at view count. I'd argue it's the easiest thing to do on the planet, forever, and ever and ever. I'm hassling you facetiously. I get your points and they're valid as well. This coffee.... ooohhhhh... it's SOOOOOo fuckin GOOD!

Losiento

Sirens best mellow PJ love songs ever written. Usually, this musical muse makes him the most money.

Bant

Driven1287 said:

It's tough to compare songs on YouTube. You can look at it and say, "Sirens was a bigger hit than Just Breathe" based on the views alone. I do think it was a bigger hit, but you can't only look at the views. Youtube is at its height of popularity and marketing right now. Pearl Jam promoted Sirens and their new album big on Youtube. So just for the fact that Just Breathe came out four years ago means that, all things equal, it's not going to get the same sort of views.

More recent songs in general will get more views, that's why you see songs like The End on there.

Just because Jimmy Fallon gets huge views on Youtube doesn't mean that it got better ratings than Letterman 10 years ago.

Then there are the live performances, the music videos, etc. I mean if Betterman had a music video, or Last Kiss, or whatever. how would it have faired? Granted, that black video on Youtube is just a live performance.

The views are interesting to look at but you can't really take anything away from them.

Exactly this.

If Youtube was around during Ten, those songs would be in the 100's of millions easily. You really can't make much of Sirens getting 7 million views in 6 months. It should be much higher than that if you ask me, especially considering how much they promoted it.

igotid88

9 million in 6 months is still pretty good. But the Vevo version in which other artists get 9 million in a day, is surprisingly low. But I think that one is not being promoted as much.

evsgjamm

19 millions views today YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVEN Flowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww has 31.7 million yowzahs. oo la laaaaaaaa

evsgjamm

Jan 2020 bump - Funny how I've by total fluke come back here in Jan once again... I've taken a quick moment to populate the stats again. 

kaikai

The reaction video trend has PJ gaining new fans regularly. Every time I see one on YouTube, not only are the people “reacting” becoming fans, but so are their thousands of subscribers. It’s interesting. I have been curious about how it’s affected the #s so thanks for this...

evsgjamm

Oh right on kaikai. Happy to be of some service! lol 
Cheers