I'm surprised by how low the views are for some of her biggest hits.

Vogue = 42m
Like a Prayer = 17m
Like a Virgin = 23m
Music = 6m
Hung Up = 75m
Papa Don't Preach = 6m
Crazy for You = 3m
Frozen = 7m
Express Yourself = 8m
Into the Groove = 2m

These are the total number of views of some of the videos uploaded to the official Madonna channels on YouTube. Some of them are also available to watch on fan channels, but they've only accumulated a few million views, so I doubt they've affected the videos on the official channel very much. Surely a worldwide superstar like Madonna should have accumulated more than that in the last six years? Like a Prayer is a classic 1980s hit but it hasn't even surpassed 20m views. It's strange that it has so few views compared to these other classics from the 1980s:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun = 182m
Time After Time = 94m
Thriller = 289m
Billie Jean = 185m
Bad = 135m
I Wanna Dance With Somebody = 52m
Take on Me = 208m
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) = 61m
Karma Chameleon = 159m
Everybody Wants To Rule The World = 31m


Michael Jackson's death has definitely helped his views, but it's still impressive that he has lots of videos that have 100m+ views. Madonna only has one - Bitch I'm Madonna - and that accumulated so many views due to a gimmick in the video. The other two singles from Rebel Heart - Living for Love and Ghosttown - haven't even reached 25m.

It's bizarre that Wannabe by The Spice Girls has 139m views, but Frozen by Madonna only has 7m views. They were both hits in the late 1990s. Even Believe by Cher has 35m views. Music was a big hit for Madonna in 2000 but only has 6m views. Oops! I Did It Again by Britney Spears - also released in 2000 - has 80m views.

Maybe it's a copyright thing. It would be nice if every artist had one official YouTube channel that had every music video on there and was available worldwide.

It might be due to the fact that these older videos aren't on Madonna's Vevo channel (correct me if I'm wrong). Vevo channels tend to get A LOT more views than normal artist YouTube channels.

Just typed "papa don't preach" into youtube , top video has 23million views ?

It is quite a common occurrence amongst artists who have been around before the advent of youtube. Britney, Mariah, Celine, Nirvana any big named act before the advent of youtube has relatively low views for their older material. Could be a myriad of a reasons but it isn't uncommon .

Do people even still listen to Madge ? Lol

because only about four people care about madonna anymore? maybe?

Most of her videos are released on her DVD collections. If you are a fan, you most likely have those DVD's and watch them on those.

For me, I tend to use youtube to watch new artists that I want to find out about not older artists I am already familiar with.

They are lower than expected in some ways... This was in part to timing .... Madonna left Warner brothers to join inter scope/live nation when vevo started to take off. Warner have only recently started to show her back catalogue with little awareness. Equally, her new adventures favoured newer technology such as lovelivetv, Instagram, tidal, periscope, and snapchat to launch new material - so her vevo account has been a little lacking in terms of promo, contains only recent songs and her songs before live nation/interscope are on Warner with no promotion. Amid all of this many people have created their own yet accounts with her videos that have gained popularity and many views.

What she probably needs to do is somehow reunite interest through vevo/YouTube ...but currently her investment in tidal seems to be of more interest owing to maybe her distain on certain music services such as vevo and Spotify and their lack of acknowledgement to artists and heavy profit for themselves at the expense of the artist.

says the "XFactorking". Lol...indeed

Probably because most fans have those older videos on DVD and have seen them countless times?

Her recent videos have healthy views.

Can't say I've checked them out myself. Are they in HD or do they look like they've been transferred from VHS?

Contrary to what the hardcore fans want, I think Madonna will slowly be pushed further back. I also had expected the singles to do better, but today's pop world happily continues without Madonna. Her legacy lives on in the majority of today's female pop singers and madge herself can continue focusing on touring, that is where her strenght is now

I think most of her fans are older and are not from the YouTube generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333Is7VPOg

Yep it does and La Isla Bonita has 35 million views.

Maybe the OP mixed up all their stats or has been very selective in what they posted?

It would have been very interesting to see how popular Madonna would have been at her career peak in 1990 if Youtube was around then.

I think Madonna's problem is that she is so divisive. However if you look at the sales of say The Immaculate Collection which has sold over 30 million maybe it suggests people are Madonna worn out. If you combine the sales of all her greatest hits sets from over the years it brings them close to 50 million just on Greatest Hits alone, so perhaps people cared more for the music than the videos themselves.

I was watching Siouxsie and the Banshees on YouTube last night at a 1991 gig in Florida. It made me think what a massive gulf there was between that incredible performance by Siouxsie Sioux and the bland, middle-of-the-road gyrations of Madonna.

Because young people watch the same video for an act they love. Which I find sad tbh

Translation being...Madonna does not attract younger people in drives to watch her videos more than once.

And what does that have to do with the topic? Siouxsie and the Banshees and Madonna have nothing in common other than they are both female.
Anyone who has seen Madonna on tour this year and not in the 1990's like Siouxsie knows she an incredibly diverse performer who does not just gyrate as you say.
Have you seen her recently on tour? I think not.

How many views does Siouxsie have for her videos?